{"id":331671,"date":"2017-06-26T18:58:20","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T18:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=331671"},"modified":"2017-06-26T18:58:20","modified_gmt":"2017-06-26T18:58:20","slug":"nsmq2017-aquinas-beats-presec-kumasi-high-to-enter-grand-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=331671","title":{"rendered":"#NSMQ2017: Aquinas beats PRESEC, Kumasi High to enter grand finale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St. Thomas Aquinas has comfortably entered into the final stage of the 2017 National Science and Maths Quiz.<\/p>\n<p>The school consistently had a commanding lead in all the five rounds of the competition beating the Presbyterian Boys Senior High School (PRESEC) and Kumasi High School who struggled to catch up with Aquinas.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-331700 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/nsmq-2017-aquinas-squad-1_1000x667.jpg\" alt=\"nsmq-2017-aquinas-squad-1_1000x667\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At the end of five rounds, PRESEC and Kumasi High School had 39 and 28 points respectfully while Aquinas led with 52 points.<\/p>\n<p>Aquinas will therefore meet Adisadel and Prempeh Colleges in the grand finale at the National Theatre in Accra on Thursday, June 29, 2047.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-331699 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/nsmq-2017-aquinas-squad-31_1000x667.jpg\" alt=\"nsmq-2017-aquinas-squad-31_1000x667\" width=\"761\" height=\"508\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Whereas Adisadel College won with just one point during its contest on Monday, Prempeh and Aquinas both won with huge margins.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-331698 aligncenter\" 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National Science and Maths Quiz. The school consistently had a commanding lead in all the five rounds of the competition beating the Presbyterian Boys Senior High School (PRESEC) and Kumasi High School who struggled to catch up with Aquinas. At the end [&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":[2,11],"tags":[7969,3,8640,8077],"class_list":["post-331671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-top-stories","tag-nsmq2017","tag-ghana-news","tag-kumasi-high","tag-presec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331671","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=331671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=331671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=331671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=331671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}