After four futile attempts to enrol in NYP, he graduates from the poly with near-perfect 3.99 GPA

Mr Aloysius Lim also received an award for being the most outstanding graduate who progressed to Nanyang Polytechnic from the Institute of Technical Education.

Mr Lim is one of 5,300 graduates from NYP’s Class of 2024 and is also one of the polytechnic’s top nine graduates. On May 3, he received from Education Minister Chan Chun Sing the Tay Eng Soon Award for ITE Upgrader, presented to the most outstanding graduate who progressed to NYP from the Institute of Technical Education.

So Mr Lim, who grew up in a Mandarin-speaking family with his parents and an older sister, went to ITE College East and did a Higher Nitec course in cyber and network security. Using his ITE results, he applied to NYP three times – once after graduating and twice more while he was in National Service.“I tried for so long, but in the end I still couldn’t make it in. But I am someone who does not give up easily, so that I know that if I keep trying, one day I will succeed,” said Mr Lim, whose father is a food delivery rider and his mother a senior finance executive.

“I wanted to prove to them that although I actually went for a longer path, I can be successful or be even more successful than most of my peers,” said Mr Lim, who is headed to Nanyang Technological University to pursue a bachelor of computing in computer science.

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