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At 12:32 AM 6/14/2001 +0200, text warez wrote:
>Sharat Pradhan
>in Allahabad, India
>
>Subia Hashmat, an 11-year-old girl here has become the youngest person ever
>to attempt and clear the Microsoft Certified Professional examination.
>
>Subia, who does not even have a computer at home, wrested the title from
>friend and neighbour Supriya Singh who at 12, is just one year elder.
>
>The MCP computer based examination is conducted worldwide by the Microsoft
>Corporation and certifies successful students to troubleshoot and tweak its
>software products.
>
>Subia attends class VI at Allahabad's Girls' High School. Supriya attends
>the St Mary's Convent.
>
>The neighbourhood friends recently attempted the MCP examination together.
>Supriya cleared it in one go but Subia did not. Within a week, Subia tried
>again and struck gold. She not only cleared the examination but also broke
>Supriya's record by virtue of being younger.
>
>Both girls trained with Shailesh Jaiswal of the National Institute of
>Professional Studies, a local computer training institute.
>
>"But for Shailesh Sir, we would not even got admission to the institute,"
>Subia told Rediff. Her cousin Tauseef is an old friend of Shailesh.
>
>Shailesh concedes "I was naturally sceptical even when Tauseef approached me
>because I just could not imagine kids, who had yet to step into their teens,
>doing what even grownups find difficult to attempt."
>
>After some persuasion, however, Shailesh allowed the girls to appear for a
>"performance test" that would decide whether the institute could admit them.
>
>
>"To my utter amazement they did pretty well. So, we granted them admission
>to a short-term summer vacation course." But even then, Shailesh had the
>least suspicion that the girls were aspiring for the Microsoft Certified
>Professional examination itself!
>
>Shailesh now admits that he has yet to come across anyone who could pick up
>the finer points of a Microsoft system as quickly as the two girls have.
>
>Shailesh remains floored. He told Rediff "It was understandable for Supriya
>to be making rapid progress because she had a computer back home but
>whatever Subia had known about computers was confined to the bare basics
>taught at school."
>
>Strangely, Subia's Girls' High School has chosen to not tom-tom their
>student's international record. Supriya has been luckier. St Mary's Convent
>has gone to town with her achievement.
>
>Subia told Rediff "I can tell you how thrilled I was when I finally made it
>as a Microsoft Certified Professional... Bill Gates is my role model and I
>wish I could do the ultimate with computers and work for the Microsoft
>Corporation one day."
>
>There's another excitement coming Subia's way. Her father has relented and
>agreed to buy her a PC. "I do realise that a computer at home could help her
>maintain her skills which may not be possible in school," he says.
>
>A PC at home also means that Subia's younger brother can have a shot at
>bettering his sister. Nine-year-old Noman has already declared: "Let the PC
>come and I will beat her record."
>
>Supriya's surgeon father Dr Santosh Kumar Singh has rewarded her with an
>Internet connection. Supriya says, "That was the best gift from my father.
>Papa always encouraged me to learn more and more about computers while my
>class teacher Mrs D Chopra gave me all the opportunity in school to acquire
>the basic knowledge in computers. It was the greatest day for me when my
>  principal Sister Christina made a special announcement about my achievement
>at the school assembly."
>
>
>
>source:
>
>To:  The ISWorld mailing list.
>From:  Ron Weber (weber@commerce.uq.edu.au).
>Subject:    Emerging software culture in India
>http://www.commerce.uq.edu.au/isworld/announce/msg.27-08-1999-4.html
>
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