Malala celebrates string of top GCSEs

But the pressures of being a globally-recognised human rights campaigner has not stopped Malala Yousafzai from knuckling down and getting the education she risked her life for.

Previous year at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony she said: ‘Why is it that countries which we call strong are so powerful in creating wars but are so weak in bringing peace?

Malala scored A*s in maths, biology, chemistry, physics, and religious studies, while getting As for history, geography, and English.

Malala Yousafzai survived being shot by the Taliban in Pakistan while she was campaigning for women’s education in October 2012. Although she nearly died, she recovered after being flown for extensive surgery in Birmingham, central England.

GCSEs are taken by school students aged around 14 to 16 in the UK, and they precede A Levels.

Malala’s life is an unparalleled story of an ordinary Pak girl who overcame a number of painful and frightening ordeals with providence and will power.

She was treated at Birmingham’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital and made the city her home after the gun attack in Pakistan’s Swat Valley. Take the sample math test to see if you could pass it.