A teenager who passed 23 A-Levels has said she did not find it stressful “at all”. Mahnoor Cheema, from Slough, Berkshire, said she had done less studying than the average student and was just “very lucky” and able to “read and pick up things quite easily”. The 18-year-old has a place at the University of Oxford to study medicine and has dreams of becoming a neurosurgeon. She said it was “bittersweet” because her exams had been “a constant presence” in her life, but she was looking forward to the next step. Mahnoor, who has 34 GCSEs, decided early on that she wanted to sit a lot of A-Levels. She said she would not have done the subjects if she had not enjoyed them. Mahnoor said her parents had been very supportive and that the stereotype of parents of their heritage being pushy was “false”. She said, despite her academic achievements, she was “well-rounded”. Mahnoor is now looking forward to going to university. “Oxford has been a lifelong dream. As far as I can remember I couldn’t picture anything else,” she said. Mahnoor said she had always been interested in how brains work, including her own and that it was such a joy and a relief that her childhood dream had come true. “Obviously there’s six years of university to come. I’m sure I’m going to fall in love with a lot of different branches,” she said. “But for now, neurosurgery is where my interest lies.”
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