2024 NSC National top Learner in kzn congratulations to kzn John Wesley Bay private it's an independent schools to Shang I'm going to request H my average was 98 is s as a national top achiever of South Africa what did you decide to study at University of K Town hello hello guys welcome back to gift uh vity TV this is your host gift uh please just subscribe we're almost on 100,000 subscribers this is the only channel that better as in South Africa no no I'm mistaken in Africa when it comes to universities right uh subscribe now
please subscribe like this video please thumbs up give us 20,000 30,000 thumbs up right as you know that in this channel I just bring the best you know H each and every year I bring the best in the country so I was like you know what let me just start by interviewing the best national top achiever you saw him on TV he's with me now he's with me now how are you I'm good very good can you please introduce yourself to my viewers H my name is O known commonly as o to many I'm from
kzn from a very small town called mang and notorious for its should I say AI or chemical engineering but that's not what got me here yeah yeah H I'm currently enrolled at UCT H doing H my okay that one that one guys you must watch that one we must know after all right no uh you are here my I'm here you know this channel yeah I know GI fa TV yeah one of the reasons why I'm here the motivation from this channel got me very very far you Melissa mes or t s who's the other
guy all way to I watched all of those videos and they brought me here nund yeah a lot of them I watched them and probably why I'm here guys I want to cry but it's fine you see this channel H yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah no I'm glad that you watched it so that they see uh what we are bringing here is not useless it's not useless yeah because when you see someone doing manage to do it means also you you're able so guys please watch the Channel please it's worthwhile you're not wasting your time
the motivation you get from this channel ah it will take you very very far yeah Shas yeah take us back High School like we know that you are the National top achiever of this country but we want to take it back now in high school which high school high school did you attend what subjects were you doing there uh okay I went to a high school called John Wesley Co Bay uh private school it is an independent school but H still under NSC okay uh I took a eight subjects I did uh maths physical sciences
I did is Zulu it was home language English first additional language also did accounting also did live sciences and okay of course L and just for fun I did is it all right okay okay very serious subject yeah very serious yes yes yes no my guy uh you you let's go to the main goal now so that we we understand each right you are the National top achiever of the country how how did you feel about yeah ah hey I was very very overwhelmed I was very overwhelmed when when the call came in the call
actually came in from my principal and let me tell you this I was in a taxi going back home about a 4our drive and I was in the texi sitting there still waiting because it was not yet four the call comes in from you can imagine at that time I'm very anxious any call that comes in from a number that I don't know it just gives me that okay so you you you you kind of expected this I wanted it I'm not sure if I should say expected after the exam yeah after the exam maybe
not expected but I wanted it yeah so yeah the call comes in from a principal and immediately I I ask him principal please tell me that this is the call that I've been waiting for please tell me that it's that call and he tells with no yeah it's that call and then I think a few minutes after the call from the actual Department came in and they told me that you're going there and I was like oh yeah this is just a culmination of goals that I've had for the longest of time I think I
I had that goal since I'm not sure even as far as grade five even I was watching the Nationals and I was like okay that's where I want to go one day and yeah it happened W let's go let's let's dig deep now you know that in this channel we are so explicit you know we we we we don't play here right we want to know exactly when you find out that you you bet the whole country now how did you feel now that you you didn't just receive a call you a national top aief
National that one was tough because we don't know before when they call us they don't tell us anything so before the event we also just stressed like everyone else so you wondering yeah we also wondering why am I here am I the top achiever for maybe sign language or why am I we wondering so yeah we got they started with Awards and at that time I did not even know that I'm not part of the so my school is not part of the five quals so well I did not qualify for anything they not calling
your name they are not calling my name and I I thought to myself hey maybe they just called me to watch everything to be a spectator yeah so H they finish almost all the awards and then there at the end they say h now these are the National top Achievers the overall National top achievers and then from K okay they finished everyone from K I think I'm the only one who's left then they say K and then they call out my name ah total disbelief let me tell you that I never even if I thought
I could get there even if there was that Smalling say okay I can get there but I but never in my wildest streams would have ever thought I would be the national top achiever they called me then I went they still in disbeliever was like yeah I made it God did God did God did wow wow wow what was your aage H my average was 98% at Le according to my culations let's go to the highlights of something you know when I mean highlights yeah highlight which subjects best marks I got uh three uh 300%
for I think for three subjects okay that was uh physical sciences okay H live sciences and also l l yeah what was mathematics mathematics he mathematics did me dir time management in paper two killed me so it ended up being 97 but it did me it did me so language is my say I must also ask languages yeah because languages are very important aspiring national languages are very important I always say languages are the ones that put you there those are the ones yeah so I got 90% of the dot for English and I got
98% voices I tried H TM was 99% still looking for that one Mark which one we foret also accounting was also 99% dissect the physical sciences one how did you get 100% in physical scien physical science is still in disbelief I should tell you that because I I thought it was easy to get 100% in math because I did get 100% for in some of the papers during the year so but yeah physics still in disbelief but yeah H physical sciences let me tell you this physical science is of course is there's Theory then there's
calculation there's the quantitative part of physical sciences so you must learn to master Bo you must learn to master Bo I always say you should not be getting definitions you should not be losing the two marks from definitions so you have to first Master the theory part so what I did before before school even starts I think I was I started in December for physical sciences the first part is to master the theory and this means reading your notes this means understanding your notes when when they say Newton second state this and that you must
understand what does that actually mean what does that entail what does that what are the what are the the implications of that so you have to understand the theory so this means reading your notes Gathering a variety of resources I think I used resources like science Clinic mind the gap books like that so you have to get a first knowledge for master your theory know everything know every law know when they ask like this what do they mean when they ask this what do they want from you so that's the first part that you have
to master and I always say I think the calculation side of physics is not that bad I think that's the easier part so you then go into calculation to master calculation I think in physical sciences every National top achiever will tell you this past papers you can never go wrong with pass papers in physical sciences if you do enough pass papers ah then it means that you are the problem so do p papers do from different profets do your free state I always loved doing free state yeah also another thing in physical sciences I think
ER I observed my I looked at my grade 10 and 11 marks and I saw that hey I struggled a lot with multiple choice questions and yeah and I think most of us students oh most so yeah I I think most students most Learners struggle with multiple choice questions and I also struggled with multiple so there's a document that I found I think it's called it is also compiled by free state it has almost every multiple choice question that you can ever get this year we decided to create a WhatsApp group with this National top
Achievers where we assist you with mathematics physical sciences and life sciences and give you the study material and BT preparation uh where will also guide you towards University applications and application WhatsApp that number to register to join so I did all of the almost all of those questions and let me tell you after that I never got a multiple choice question wrong I never I mastered the multiple choice so Master those little Parts definitions I we should not be even talking about definitions multiple choice questions yeah and your calculations as I said past papers p
papes I think Kevin Mets Kevin Mets will always do it for you on YouTube on YouTube yeah find find him on YouTube Kevin mats there's also someone called those are those two are very good so you can always uh try and consult them and then there are certain books that I'll always recommend physical scientist I would always recommend science Clinic that one is very good straight to the point mind the gap if you're also looking for just short notes try just trying to understand also advise mind the gap and also the booklets that I talked
about the multiple Choice question book that one is also very good Training yeah where do you get this multiple choice book multiple don't worry guys you must be part of the the group don't worry I also got it from somewhere I also got it from somewhere I'm not sure where I think it's one of the groups that I joined last year for metrick okay WhatsApp groups WhatsApp groups yeah guys you must just join my WhatsApp group to get this pamphlet of question papers don't worry I'll post the details on the on the community section there
yeah yeah he will send me all right let's go to Mets yeah Mets everyone's enemy yeah but you must make him your friend you must make mat your friend so I think the very the most important thing with mat I would say is loving Mets because most people and most of us and I think also at some point in my schooling career I also had a problem with Mets I hated meds so first try to love Mets because if you don't love Mets you'll never give it the chance you'll never give it enough effort the
effort that it requires the effort that it needs so I think the most important thing most pivotal thing is just try and develop some sort of love for it okay so that because that will influence the efforts that you're willing to put in okay so the second thing with me okay if you I always say Consulting and T textbooks is also very important just to get an understanding of the topic so for example you're starting with Calculus if you want to understand the formula the what is this if you want to call what what is
the formula use for first principles if you want to understand what does it mean where what am I substituting here what do I need here and so on so you it would be important it is important that you consult first the textbook just try to get the theory and that will only take you a few hours if you're serious and then of course you also have the the lessons in your class that will also have so and then after that it's past papers all the way I will I will not lie to you I will
not g keep there's nothing special to met if you want to master met you have to do pass papers you have to do pass papers from January pass papers up until December from every Province try every Province and if you if you're willing also do IB it they will help quite a lot pass papers will do the job for you so yeah I would say pass papers are very important in mathematics and of course mat is that particular subject where you are bound to get challenges you will get challenges in the in your journey so
Consulting is very important so just try to develop a very good relationship with your maths teacher those people are very invasive very energetic so it's hard to keep up with them at times but try to make that particular friendship with them or relationship with them and also your PE people that you can see with okay these people are doing well yeah I where you know that met is going to be discussed you must be there people must find you there you must also be there part of the discussions discussing P papers discussing Concepts so yeah
that will also go a very long way for you great great great great great great great let's uh before we go to languag because they also asked me to touch on languages cuz I always ask serious questiones like serious subjects only now languages are serious yeah serious very serious serious language let's go to how you what you do in exam room people do passers people try everything but they still come level one level two where is the problem yeah that one yeah that one is real so but I think the training the training that you
require for the exams starts during past papers but let's leave that okay so when you're in in your exam room it's very important that you you prepare for you prepare yourself for the paper mentally emotionally psychologically yeah you yeah just your physi physiological rather aspects should be in check you should be ready for the past paper before you are academically before you are intellectually you must make sure that you you you are prepared and yeah spiritually so that's why most of us start by praying if you're not happy with praying you can do whatever it
is that that something that will just make you relaxed ready for the paper make sure that there's nothing that's stressing you out and so on and then when you get into the paper now especially this is something that I did for mathematics now grade 11 and 10 I started from the beginning that's what I thought that that's the best way to do it just start from the beginning and so if you're doing your ma paper one you're starting with your algebra making your way what's the last probability if you're doing your paper to you're starting
with your SK then you end with your Kon I learned in I started in grade 12 to now have a certain approach in in in in in approaching the the paper so I always advice with paper two I always advise that you should start with ukan I'm not sure if some people may agree with me but I I always say you should start with ukan and then leave the rest and do the rest after so I would say you there there's there's always that topics that topic that when you're at home everything is going well
you're doing it you're getting you're getting the correct answers but once you're in the exam room you start finding problems now and that's what I experienced with your kidan geometry I saw that the problem with ENT geometry was not that I don't understand was not was not that I can't understand it but the problem was mainly the fact that my time I could not I never had enough time to do ukan so that's why I started with UK so so that it gives me enough time so I think that should then allude to the the
most important thing in your past in when you're doing papers is time management time management is very very very important never spend never spend more time than the one that you're required to spend so even when when I encounter for example a five marks question I will never allow myself to spend more than five minutes for a question I would never especially okay if I'm when I'm done okay sh I've checked everything I can then take for example 30 minutes to do one question but never spend more than five minutes for question make sure that
okay you look at it if it's giving you problems if you immediately see that it's giving you problems okay just rush to the next question unless of course the next question requires you to have the other answer but if it doesn't just do the next questions or do other questions you so the advice would be never spend more than the time that you're required to spend or because it will affect you it might not affect you in that section because you might spend 30 minutes on in that question or for example you might spend 30
minutes on analytical geometry and end up getting every Mark for analytical geometry but then what about you cing that you've not touched so you must make sure that you manage your time you time yourself time management in pass in papers rather is very important as I said it starts when you're doing pass papers you must make sure that when you're doing pass papers you time yourself if you are doing a three-hour pass paper you should also do it in 3 hours even you should do it in 2 hours 30 minutes one hour you check you
are just checking you should that's great yeah that's that's that will help you quite a lot so okay let's go to languages now like just touch in languages which one life science I love life sciences one of my favorite subjects if I should tell you and I think what pushed me in life sciences I always observed the marks of other National top achiev and I was like why why aren't they getting 100% in life sciences so let me be the first one let me try and be the first one and yeah fortunately it happened so
with life sciences it's a it's a very it's Theory based Life Sciences so you must be friends with your textbooks perhaps with maths and physics yeah not as much but with life sciences you must know life sciences in and out when you're dealing with the eye you must make sure that you know the eye in and out so my first advice would be to look at your textbooks read your textbook if you study met five hours give in that five hours to also Life Sciences just reading your textbook going through your textbook and also if
you are struggling of course with the content because the first part that you have to master is the actual content so if you're struggling with the content you can just look at uh I would also advise you to look at people like Miss angla on YouTube she would also help you with that so yeah first understand the concept Master the concept make sure if they say um explain DNA replication you know it's at the at the back of your mind like your palm then pass papers and I'm and I think people don't emphasize this enough
with life scientist because we always talking about doing P papers in math and physics but we never talk about life scientist you will notice that life scientist they just recycle questions they are always repeating the same questions so if you do enough pass papers with life sciences let me tell you this you will never go wrong you will never go wrong so do those past papers try and understand everything all right all right all right languages fast fast fast fast let's not spend time okay with languages guys languages are very important H most people will
notice that it's hard to study languages especially paper one and paper three but with paper two and that's usually the biggest problem for us iners or at least in English in ISU yeah in ISU I don't know but in English It's usually the challenge is usually um is usually to so spend time on that paper too I know people usually advise you to not finish your your novels because you can always find people explaining them just try and read and have an understanding of the actual novel what is the novel saying what is the short
story saying so do languages at least in your timetable if you have a weekly time you should have a weekly timetable you should make sure that at least for three days in the week you are doing you are reading novels you are reading the your notes or your paper two notes and then with paper one and even before an exam I know guys we know that when you when you're writing paper paper one and paper three the next day that one is a free it's just every day we are sleeping but make sure that you
go through your past papers because for example there will always be those questions for example in English they all they'll always ask you was the title effective the way in which you answer that question is the same the structure of that of course it will depend on the comprehension that you've read but the way in which you approach the question will be the same so just look at your P papers I know people tell you that but it's not going to be the same comprehension but just to understand how they answer questions how to answer
questions and how the structure questions look at those past papers for also your languages right uh paper three It's Your Own Story it's up to the heart of the the forat the format is very important all right no the the formats the format look through your formats you shouldn't be failing to write a letter without wasting time how did you manage yourself like did you partic like you as an individual what kept you moving pushing you through out through you know making sure you know at the end I get what I want so uh I
was not a sports person so I wouldn't say that perhaps I participated in in sports to help me I love watching sports but I yeah struggle to play sports so I think the most important thing something that will push you is of course having a very very good support system in metric is very it's challenging mentally almost every aspect academically physically mentally you will be challenged that is something to not lie about you will you will be challenged but the most important thing is to have people people that you will fall but you must have
people that will carry you as you fall people that will be able to push you and I think if you are looking for a support system having great friends is always the best advice people that will not only people that will not only that you not only discuss just crazy things with but people that you you will be able to study academics discuss academics with if you have problems you you are struggling with a particular topic some people that you can consult with but people that will also have carry you emotionally okay you for example
you've lost a family member whatever emotional things happening in your life people people that you to say okay discuss this with so yeah I think it's very important to have a very strong support system and that you can also have that in the form of your family people that will be able to support you financially if you need something that you know and understand that it will help you academically you know that I can go to my mother you know that I can go to my dad my grand my grandma and so on so and
also your teachers you must not have teachers that believe in you guys it's very it's very difficult to push if you know that people around you don't believe in you so people my teachers I think since I think even from grade 11 my teachers were telling you that telling me that when you are going there you are going to the National so if you have like people like that people that that support you like that there's no way that you're not going to put that effort because you know okay people have expectations from me and
these people trust me so let me let me also do it for them so it's very important and the second thing that will perhaps keep you in check is having a consciousness of your goals it's very important in metri to know what you want because if you don't know what you want you'll just be blown by the wind you'll go wherever people are going people are going to parties you will go there people are doing this you will do that because you don't know what you want but if you know at the beginning of metrix
this is not something that you should you should perhaps look at during October before the exams no this is something that you should be having conversations with yourself about in January from January you should be looking at okay what is it that I want what are my goals what are my aspirations after great 12 what do I want to do because understanding that will then influence how you act so if you tell yourself that okay H by January by by the end of matrick I want level once for all of my subjects then you'll be
you'll be partying you'll be doing this and that because what you what you want has now influenced how you act but if you know that okay by the end of matrick I want to go to the minister it means you're going going to be putting 100% of your effort it means that you're going to be studying every day it means that you're going to be doing that timetable it means that you're going to be putting the your your most efforts yeah right right right right right right oh nice I wish I can go back to
my man and uh fight again we deserve another I forgot watching gift videos there's a there's a video of gift that I watch I'm not sure where you were but you were singing that song I watch that video and it's videos like that so guys having motivation I know we always emphasize discipline that you must be disciplined but also motivation goes a long way because symetric is very training so having people like gifts I won't mention others because there are a lot D dies andies and so on but I'm not going to mention them with
having that motivation it it will go a long way because yes discipline will take it discipline let me not bed mouth discipline discipline is very important guys but it also helps because there will be those days where you where you don't feel like studying and then you go to YouTube H and then you you come across a video from gifts perhaps interviewing T saying okay and after that 30 minutes that 30 minutes to an hour you'll be like okay this is what I want to do and then you go back to studying so guys motivation
is also very important great great how many hours did you sleep I'll be very honest and I think I've been very honest about this hey I procrastinated quite a lot in metric procrastination was one of the biggest challenges that I had in metric but on my best days I would sleep at least each three hours if possible but don't do that guys because on the the next day I will just be sleeping the whole period but at least get get enough sleep so at least five hours of sleep a day or five to seven hours
of sleep I but not seven hours when you're when you're in MRI at least 5 hours of sleep will do you very good nice nice nice nice nice before we close you want to know what did you decide to study as a national top achiever of South Africa what did you decide to study at University of kown yeah there were many options there were many options of course just like any other top achiever or someone who looks like they might be a top achiever you always be motivated you'll always be told to go into medicine
so of course medicine was one of my choices H some were motivating me to do H to go and become a ched accountings ched accountant rather so that was also a part of it but ultimately H I would say God L I would say God led me to exal Sciences so I'm pursuing my bachelor of business science in exal science at the University in the mountains ah the top in the Andre and Africa okay well right what made you the decision just believe of actual science okay so I I did mention that I was struggling
to choose between medicine and actal scientist for the longest of time even in December I was stressed about results and on top of that stressed about the career that I have to do so I then told myself I love both of these I love both of these but I can't I I I can't seem to be to make a decision so what I did I saw a video one of these good days on Tik Tok and there was a girl who's doing AAL Sciences I decided to comment on the video and I was like okay
I'm struggling to choose between medicine and natural science what advice can you give me H she did not see the comments but fortunately another girl who's doing aeral science at ucct I should mention her she saw the comment and she she decided to DM me she told me that okay last year she all 2023 she also had the same problem and then she told me everything about because I KN I think I knew almost everything about medicine how does it take to to become a doctor but I didn't know as much about side so she
told me everything about it she even went on to tell me the modules that you do that you do in actual sciences and let me tell you that after that I was I was so convinced I was like okay this is what I want to be doing M can you look at them there right this is the most important moment it's been important but this one is critical what can you say to all the metric of 2025 in the country that is currently watching this video just look at them there matrick 2025 matri 25 hey
MRI is very Challen challenging guys MRI will take its toll on you it's challenging academically physically emotionally spiritually so you need to do your best I know that perhaps you'd been you've been doing your best in grade 10 and 11 but now you have to put in your all you have to put in your 100% And as I I think I said this in the beginning it's all starts with developing some sort of Consciousness about your goals what do I want to achieve what is it that I want to get at the end of my
if you don't if you don't know that let me tell you metric will CH you so the most important thing is just develop that Consciousness what are my expirations what are my goals what is it that I want to achieve after mric because all of that is then going to trickle in into the efforts that you put in the effort that you put in is informed by what you want to achieve so that is the most important thing and I watched a video one day uh another gift video and this guy said I think one
of the most important things to consider when you're in metric he said um a candle loses Nothing by lighting another candle but instead the room gets brighter what does that that just means that if you have the means to help someone on your side if you have the means to help make sure that you do if someone is asking you to to help to help them with meds make sure that you do it because it is then going to help you at the end of the day it might not help that person as much but
it will help you because those lessons that you have those consultations that you have with other Learners they will surely go long so guys if you have the means to help help I know sometimes for example during exam Seasons yeah it might be difficult to help another person but if you have the means to help make sure that you that you have and most importantly I'm a Christian so I will never leave this out pray pray pray pray pray pray pray every day pray before an exam pray before every stud sessions consult with consult with
God and H he will direct all of your steps right trust not in your own understanding trust in the Lord thank you so much my father being on this channel gift vity t uh thank you so much I I am also inspired and I know definitely they are inspired to become the best version of thems it's beautiful when I see people dming me sending me stopping me on campus this channel has changed them their lives after watching that video I got seven distinction I got six distinction so that they can get into this serious coures
you know yeah yeah yeah so guys I hope uh you inspired please don't forget to leave a nice comment and like this video share it to any grade 12 that you know to any grade 11 that you know because getting to University starts in grade 11 you know those gr 11 marks are important then you put the step with also grade 12 thank you so much much for watching time GI here I was with Mr sh here thank you so much
