Ainan Celeste Cawley took the GCSE exam in Chemistry at the British Council on 18 Jan 2007 at the age of 7 years and 1 month, the UK’s equivalent to Singapore’s GCE ‘O’ levels. He obtained a ‘C’ grade credit. His parents are Valentine Cawley, an Irish, and Syahidah Osman Cawley, a Singaporean Malay. At just 8 years and 4 months old, he started doing part-time laboratory-based Chemistry modules at the Singapore Polytechnic. At 10, he began an American degree programme at Taylor’s University in Malaysia.
