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DlLSHANl CHETHIKA GUNAWARDENA
BAUNDERGRADUATE, BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION, UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBO
Congratulations on winning a prize in the exams. Which paper was it for?
I won the world prize for paper P7, Financial Accounting and Tax Principles, by gaining 96 marks in the November 2008 exam. I hadn't expected to win any prize, but I loved this subject because it contained a lot of interesting topics such as tax calculations, financial statements and so on.
Two years before I started the qualification, a student from Sri Lanka became the youngest person in the world to pass the finals. I was very impressed by this, because I was thinking of starting to study for the qualification and felt proud that a Sri Lankan had won. It did make me wonder whether I could also win a world prize, but I didn't study in order to do so, I simply did my best and at the end I got better results for my hard work...