Baldeep Kaur

Baldeep Kaur, born in 1995, a Malaysian Sikh student came into news when she received the highest SACE International Student Achiever Award 2015. SACE stand for South Australian Certificate of Education, an Internationally recognized pre-University Program considered to be the most popular Australian-based pre-University Program in Malaysia. Baldeep scored ATAR 99.90, which was the highest achievement across the entire SACE International Programme. She told Asia Samachar on telephone that “My goal was to prove to myself that I could do better”. SACE students are provided with a university aggregate score (out of 90) and an Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR). The ATAR is a percentile ranking recognized without modification by all tertiary selection agencies in Australia and is used by university around the world for entry selection purposes, according to SACE website. Baldeep’s parents S. Balwinder Singh and Ghelgeth Kaur, who attended the graduation ceremony at the college in Subang Jaya, Selangor, very happy and informed that Baldeep worked very hard and read many story books and other material. Her teachers also supported and motivated her. Baldeep added that her father, founder of Compu Studies (an online study portal in Malay Coerces in Computing and English) and her mother were also very supportive. Baldeep studied at Tarcisian Convent in Ipoh where she scored straight A’s in SPM, an O-level equivalent Malaysian board examination. She then took up the SACE Programme at Taylor’s College. She won a scholarship from Malaysian National Oil Company Petroliam National Bhd (Petronas), will continue her studies at University of Melbourne where she intends to pursue a Bachelor of Commerce degree with a major in accounting. The highly motivated Sikh role-model is now inspiring others to work hard and come up in everything what we do. She is sanguine that in the coming years she will have further challenges and will do much better.