An 18-year-old from Ipswich, Abiola Abidoye, has been recognised as the best-performing A Level law student in the entire country.
Abidoye, who attends One Sixth Form College, sat for four subjects — maths, further maths, law, and physics — and earned A* grades in all. His outstanding law result saw him score 224 out of 240 across three examination papers, the highest in the UK.
Remarkably, Abidoye admits that law was not the subject he expected to excel in. “I am really pleased. I have maths and physics which are my strong suit, I did law because it’s my passion. I’m very passionate about different types of law, even some that we didn’t do like human rights, just any law I can get myself into, so it was just a fun lesson I wanted to do, I wasn’t expecting to do so well in there,” he told the Ipswich Star.
Reflecting on his success, he said: “I was very surprised when I found out I was best in the country at Law for A Levels because again, it’s not my strong suit. I saw that result before my others, so I was already nervous waiting for them but then that came through. I put in an immense amount of work into this. I was staying up to ungodly hours for my studying. I put a lot of pressure on myself to try and achieve it, I am not sure if I will do it again because it was very difficult but I am pretty happy. The teachers at One Sixth Form College were wonderful and helped me a lot.”
Although his passion for law has been clear, Abidoye plans to pursue mathematics at university. Looking ahead, he hopes to establish a career in banking or finance.
