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Asperger's lad gets 11; LEVEL BEST.


A BOY with Asperger syndrome Asperger syndrome
Children who have autistic behavior but no problems with language.

Mentioned in: Autism
 is the top scoring A-level student in the country.

Jos Gibbons Famous people named Gibbons include:
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, 18, has 11 A-levels - 10 at grade A and one B grade.

He passed five exams this time round to add to the six he already has.

Jos, from Solihull, West Midlands West Midlands, former metropolitan county, central England. Created in the 1974 local government reorganization, the county embraced the Birmingham conurbation and comprised seven metropolitan districts: Walsall, Wolverhampton, Dudley, Sandwell, Birmingham, Solihull, , now plans to study physics at Oxford University. He said: "I am pleased but I expected to get all of them."

Gifted Jos, of King Edward VI Camp Hill King Edward VI Camp Hill Boys and King Edward VI Camp Hill Girls (grid reference SP067813) are a pair of grammar schools in Kings Heath, Birmingham. They are voluntary aided schools, part of the Foundation of the Schools of King Edward VI.  School for Boys, in Kings Heath, passed his first Alevel aged 13. Mum Susan said: "He is quite laid-back about it. But I am sure he will re-sit biology."

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Publication:The Mirror (London, England)
Date:Aug 17, 2007
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