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[email protected] Alde,Teaño honored for perfect International Benchmark Tests Both vow achievement consistency for next academic challenges by Gabriel Ian B. Maddara, photo by Ivan C. Magyani Two students from Alde‘s manner of The Philippine School are acing exams was comparative among the top students in the with Andrea Teaño, who is a world, who executed intelligent grade 9A student. Andrea, who performances among thousands had managed extensive reading, who took the International did sincere effort to perfect a Benchmark Tests (IBT). score of 45 in the English IBT Consecutively, Aeron exams. She added that one must Deine A. Alde and Andrea Mae need to pay attention to the de- M. Teaño got perfect scores in tails of the test because she be- the field of Mathematics and lieves that excellence is in the English. IBT was initiated by details. the Australian Council for Edu- "I've been reading cational Research (ACER) in books since I was two-years old, Dubai and was conducted at The but these are not merely chil- Philippine School on November dren's books. I was reading fic- 24-26, 2014. tion books and encyclopedias, Aeron, a grade 5 stu- so I have a lot of stock dent, was very successful with knowledge. Reading a lot the Mathematics IBT exam this helped me think deeper, there- year.