Preparation towards the National Science and Maths Quiz keeps on intensifying with
each pasisng day.T he boys know the very task ahead of them and are thus ready to
perform diligently. This time around, they seek not to put the cart before the horse
in their quest for the ultimate.
The masters are also doing the best they can to put the boys in the right frame
of mind and mood for the showdown in Accra come the 19th of June.
Today, the boys
had a very fierce contest as the masters placed the contestants in 3 groups, with our three representatives forming Group A.
The breakdown was as follows:
Aning Daniel Gyawu (Aggrey)
Group A:
Okyere Prince Sebastian
Aning Daniel Gyawu
Adom Baafi Gideon
Group B:
Asare Baah Andrews
Bartels Osei Yaw
Tannoh Lewis Yeboah
Group C:
Harry Agyeman Kwaku
Lennox Leonard
Osei Prempeh Kofi
The group A contestants were made to stand by while B and C competed. Group C beat
Group B by 3 points and thus went on to meet the favoured Group A.
It was a fierce contest but at the end of
the whole competition, Group A had 98 while Group C had 82.
Adom Baafi Gideon (Pearson)
Ramseyer's Agyemang Harry Kwaku, the fourth (or reserve) contestant, was deliberately
placed among Group C for him
to show his mettle. And what a brilliant performance he put up! Agyemang answered a majority
of the questions.
This trial quiz was held in the quizzes league library with only a few masters present. It
would have been fantastic if they had performed at the Assembly Hall infront of the whole school, just
to simulate the actual national quiz environment.
It is expected that the boys will have another showdown at the Assembly Hall in the presence
of a school audience. If the audience cheers for the underdogs and oppose our first team,
it will perfectly simulate the actual National Quiz. The audience is implored to intimidate Team A as much as they can,
and boo them even if necessary.
Prempeh's quiz preparation has been so effective this year, that we are actually beginning to realize that going
around the country for friendly quiz challenges may not even be as effective as the on-campus grooming these boys received at
Sofoline this year.
Unlike last year's contestants, who only received 3 video cassettes of previous national quizzes while in Accra for the big show, and never found a video
cassette player in Accra to actually watch any of the videos, this year's squad had a library designed for them one year ahead, with videos from the quizzes from
1994 to present, which they have watched to a nauseating degree!
