{"id":327426,"date":"2017-06-11T07:20:20","date_gmt":"2017-06-11T07:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=327426"},"modified":"2017-06-11T07:20:20","modified_gmt":"2017-06-11T07:20:20","slug":"nsmq2017-presec-romp-to-next-round-aburi-girls-take-back-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=327426","title":{"rendered":"#NSMQ2017: PRESEC romp to next round, Aburi Girls take back door"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five-time winners of the\u00a0National Science &amp; Maths Quiz,\u00a0Presbyterian Boys&#8217; Secondary School, Legon (PRESEC) made light work of their opponents, recording\u00a057 points on the final day of preliminary round contests.<\/p>\n<p>They led their nearest challenger by 30 points as they served notice of their intent to capture a sixth title.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/NSMQ2017-16.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-327438\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/NSMQ2017-16.jpg\" alt=\"nsmq2017-16\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/NSMQ2017-3-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-327427\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/NSMQ2017-3-1.jpg\" alt=\"nsmq2017-3\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also winning their contests were\u00a0Sunyani SHS,\u00a0St. Charles SHS,\u00a0Half Assini SHS,\u00a0Kwahu Ridge SHTS and\u00a0Osei Kyeretwie SHS.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/NSMQ2017-6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-327429\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/NSMQ2017-6.jpg\" alt=\"nsmq2017-6\" width=\"960\" height=\"638\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/NSMQ2017-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-327440\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/NSMQ2017-1.jpg\" alt=\"nsmq2017-1\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 18 highest-scoring losing schools who will progress to the one-eighth stage have also been finalised. Aburi Girls fell short to\u00a0St. Charles SHS but will progress to the round of 16 thanks to this route.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/18951446_1133049693499323_8770469138105806341_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-327441\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/18951446_1133049693499323_8770469138105806341_n.jpg\" alt=\"18951446_1133049693499323_8770469138105806341_n\" width=\"720\" height=\"658\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The round of 16 stage will begin on Monday, June 12 through to June 21, here the level of competition is expected to be keener.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights of the round will include the PRESEC-Accra Academy-St. Johns Grammer contest and the St. Peters-Mfantsipim-Kwahu Ridge SHTS contest.<\/p>\n<p>Adisadel College will begin the defence of their crown against Nkroful Agric SHS and Suhum SHTS.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/19059138_1133370280133931_8164059156253563934_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-327445\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/19059138_1133370280133931_8164059156253563934_n.jpg\" alt=\"19059138_1133370280133931_8164059156253563934_n\" width=\"960\" height=\"678\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The NSMQ is sponsored by the Ghana Education Service through the Conference of Heads of Assisted Secondary Schools (CHASS), and is supported by Tigo, GOIL, Prudential Life Insurance, Accra College of Medicine and GCB Bank.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Find below the full contest scores<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sunyani SHS: 48<br \/>\nAccra High Sch.: 44<br \/>\nJuaso SHTS: 39<\/p>\n<p>St. Charles SHS: 41<br \/>\nAburi Girls&#8217; SHS: 39<br \/>\nDwamena Akenten SHS: 15<\/p>\n<p>Half Assini SHS: 28<br \/>\nNkonya SHS: 25<br \/>\nNavrongo SHS: 20<\/p>\n<p>Kwahu Ridge SHTS: 51<br \/>\nChemu SHS: 41<br \/>\nAdonten SHS: 18<\/p>\n<p>Osei Kyeretwie SHS: 43<br \/>\nST. Monica&#8217;s SHS: 36<br \/>\nST. John&#8217;s Sch., Sekondi: 28<\/p>\n<p>Presec, Legon: 57<br \/>\nMim SHS: 27<br \/>\nTwene Amanfo SHTS: 10<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five-time winners of the\u00a0National Science &amp; Maths Quiz,\u00a0Presbyterian Boys&#8217; Secondary School, Legon (PRESEC) made light work of their opponents, recording\u00a057 points on the final day of preliminary round contests. They led their nearest challenger by 30 points as they served notice of their intent to capture a sixth title. Also winning their contests were\u00a0Sunyani SHS,\u00a0St. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8044,3,8077],"class_list":["post-327426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","tag-2017-national-science-maths-quiz","tag-ghana-news","tag-presec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=327426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=327426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=327426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=327426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}