A nine-year-old boy has become the youngest person ever to achieve an A grade in A-level maths.

Zohaib Ahmed was just nine years and 19 days old when he sat his final exam at the Sixth Form College, Farnborough.

He beat the record held by Hong Kong maths prodigy March Boedihardjo, who was nine years and three months old when he sat his exams.
 
Zohaib scored 90% across all six modules of the A-level exam.

A former pupil at Grove Primary School in Chobham Road, Frimley, Zohaib now lives in Chandler’s Ford, with his 11-year-old brother Wajih, his mum Saadia, and his dad Usman.

Wajih was just 10 when he scored 97% in his A-level, also completed at the Sixth Form College, Farnborough.

Wajih has since completed his further maths A-levels, scoring 96%. 
Saadia said: “They’re both really happy with it. They’re getting a lot of attention.”

But she added that despite keeping busy speaking to reporters, the boys haven’t let it go to their heads.

The family moved from Frimley when they found out Usman’s job with the MoD in Farnborough would eventually take him to Portsmouth.

With Wajih starting secondary school, they wanted to move south early so that he could settle in his new school.

But Saadia said they wanted Zohaib to do his A-level at Farnborough because they had such great help from staff when Wajih did his exams. “We were so new to Chandler’s Ford and we were not sure about the college here,” she said.
 
“Farnborough had been so good to us so we thought why not just do it from there? It was a long commute but it was worth it."

She said it was exciting for Zohaib to break the record.

“It’s unbelievable, to have a member of your family breaking the world record,” she said.

Zohaib has already started studying for his further maths A-levels.

Not surprisingly, Zohaib and Wajih find the maths they do with their Year 4 and Year 6 classmates very easy.

They both take all the tests that their other classmates take, but tend to work on their own maths homework.

Despite being maths geniuses, the lads enjoy other school subjects, including PE.

Both Zohaib and Wajih want to be actuaries in the City, business professionals who use maths to analyse pensions and insurance.