10 May 2020
In spite of her stellar O level performance (an aggregate score of 3 points), Ms Tea Pei Qi chose to take up a diploma in multimedia and infocomm technology at Nanyang Polytechnic.
Ms Tea has graduated with a perfect grade point average of 4, and is currently working at IBM as an application developer under an apprenticeship programme.
She intends to read computer science in a local university.
Ms Tea said that she preferred hands-on, practical stuff, and appreciates theory better if she could see the applications first.
In NYP, she joined a mentoring club to help youths with weekly academic coaching, as a way of “paying it forward”.