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06-16-2017, 01:47 AM
Determined teen takes her exams even after deadly London fire destroys her home
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Talk about tenacity.*
Just hours after the devastating Grenfell Tower (http://mashable.com/2017/06/14/london-tower-grenfell-fire-residents-blog/) fire destroyed her home, 16-year-old Ines Alves, still wearing her pajamas, sat for her school chemistry exam.*
SEE ALSO: Firefighter's tweet goes viral in the wake of the London tower fire (http://mashable.com/2017/06/15/london-firefighter-viral-tweet-grenfell-tower/)
Alves had fled her 13th floor apartment with her family around 1 a.m., with her chemistry **tes in tow, escaping the blaze.
After spending the night at a friend's house, she arrived promptly at 9 a.m., still wearing the clothes she slept in, at Sacred Heart school in Hammersmith for the test.
"It was my Chemistry GCSE and that's what I want to do in my A-levels next year so I thought maybe it was necessary to do it," Alves told the Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2017/06/15/teenage-girl-takes-gcse-pyjamas-hours-fleeing-grenfell-tower/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_fb_tmg), referring to the UK exams taken at 16 and then 18 respectively. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/06/15/grenfell-fire-pajama-exam/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Talk about tenacity.*
Just hours after the devastating Grenfell Tower (http://mashable.com/2017/06/14/london-tower-grenfell-fire-residents-blog/) fire destroyed her home, 16-year-old Ines Alves, still wearing her pajamas, sat for her school chemistry exam.*
SEE ALSO: Firefighter's tweet goes viral in the wake of the London tower fire (http://mashable.com/2017/06/15/london-firefighter-viral-tweet-grenfell-tower/)
Alves had fled her 13th floor apartment with her family around 1 a.m., with her chemistry **tes in tow, escaping the blaze.
After spending the night at a friend's house, she arrived promptly at 9 a.m., still wearing the clothes she slept in, at Sacred Heart school in Hammersmith for the test.
"It was my Chemistry GCSE and that's what I want to do in my A-levels next year so I thought maybe it was necessary to do it," Alves told the Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2017/06/15/teenage-girl-takes-gcse-pyjamas-hours-fleeing-grenfell-tower/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_fb_tmg), referring to the UK exams taken at 16 and then 18 respectively. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/06/15/grenfell-fire-pajama-exam/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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