Studies are child’s play for her.

Which is why city girl Naina – all of eight years – breezed through the Grade-X international General Certificate of Secondary education (iGCSe) exams conducted by university of Cambridge in June this year, becoming the youngest South Asian ever to do so.

The prodigy, making light of her achievement, has now set her eyes on the Baccalaureate, which offers high quality programmes to a worldwide community of schools.

“Spotting her aptitude for studies when she was in the first standard itself, her father (Ashwani Kumar) did all he could to help her learn in a playful environment. And she took to texts like a duck to water,’’ her mother, Bhagyalakshmi says.

How does such a little child retain loads of information which even adults find difficult to manage? “Rote learning was ruled out. She was made to understand the subjects at the conceptual level and then the answers fell into place even if questions were tweaked,’’ says Bhagyalakshmi.