After narrowly missing perfection on his first attempt, Nguyen Quang Viet Nhat decided to try again and has achieved a rare perfect double: a 1600 score on the SAT and a 9.0 overall score on IELTS.

When I learned that many of my child's classmates already held IELTS scores of 6.5 to 7.0 while still in Grade 8, I realized that my child had entered the race later than most.