Iligan 's Claire Bontol tops 2009 nursing board exam

ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/02 February) --Clarie Morales Bontol, a 28 year-old graduate of the Iligan Medical Center College Inc. topped the Nursing Licensure Examination held last November 2009 with an average of 87.80%, a feat that made her physician-mother visibly proud.

Bontol led 37,526 other passers out of 94,462 nursing graduates who took the licensure examination.

Clarie's family learned about the result around 11 p.m. when her cousin based in Texas called up to inform them of the result.

"My daughter has a photographic memory," Clarie's mother Delia Bontol, a gynecologist, said of her daughter whom she described as a computer and web enthusiast.

"At first, we felt it’s unbelievable," the mother said, adding, "my daughter is not too diligent if we're going to talk of study habits. But she has a photographic memory.”

"She's not so interested with outdoor activities; she's hooked to computers as she designs web pages too. She reads lot of pocket books," she said

The mother, the topnotcher's inspiration, related that Clarie did not top in elementary and high school because "she dislikes repetition of lessons." [More at MindaNews]