There’s few happier today than SRC Bede Sixth Form student Sharon Saji.

She returned to college to re-sit her Biology A level.

Having previously just missed out on her university place to study medicine last year by a whisker, this year she was determined to achieve the A grade she needed.

Sharon was delighted to exceed her own expectations and secure an A*.

“This is more than I could have even hoped for, it just feels amazing,” she said.

She will now go to Plymouth University to study medicine.

It means a lot to her to go there as she says it was in Plymouth that her dad served in the Navy.

“It is such a beautiful place and my dad is going to be over the moon.”

In summer 2016 Sharon achieved A grades in chemistry and maths at SRC Bede.