"Going to the U.S. for college was something Oshini Ekanayake always planned for. As a student in Sri Lanka, she took her Cambridge International AS and A Levels and says the advanced curriculum more than prepared her for studying in the U.S. Ekanayake was admitted to Clark University in Massachusetts.
‘Most of what was covered in Cambridge examinations overlapped with introductory-level classes of those subjects,’ says Ekanayake, who graduated from Clark in 2015 with a bachelor’s in biochemistry and molecular biology.
AS and A Levels are subject-based qualifications – followed by assessments – that students typically take in their last two years of high school. Students can choose from more than 50 subjects to study. Results are reported on a grade scale of A*, the highest, to E, the minimum required performance." …