Conjoined twin sisters who beat odds of a million to one to survive surgery to separate them have scored top marks in their exams.
Zainab and Jannat Rahman, 16, are convinced being in the same exam room helped them get seven grade 7s, three grade 8s and 10 grade 9s between them equal to old GCSE As and A*s.
Yesterday’s results bring them closer to their dream of studying at Oxford or Cambridge.
Born conjoined from the chest to the abdomen, and sharing a liver, docs gave them virtually no chance of surviving the op which parted them at six weeks.
However they pulled through and formed the deepest bond.
It helped them make it through two gruelling years to prepare for the exams at St Paul’s Way Trust school in Tower Hamlets, East London.
Jannat said: “If I couldn’t remember studying something on the paper, I’d look at Zainab. I’d think ‘she knows this question’. Then I’d remember we revised this last night and the answer comes.”
They share a desk at home in Bow, East London, where they spent three hours a day for two years helping each other study.
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