any problem in this paragraph? This is used for formal writing(Statement of purpose), could anyone help me fix it ? I have always been in the top 10 since my first year of primary school, and this record remains to my college graduation. I attended the Chinese Geography Olympiad (Fujian Province) in 2008, when I was in my second year of high school. I was awarded The Excellent Student Leader in 2011 by our department and my university. This award has very strict requirements. Only less than twenty students out of 1200 students are awarded. Though very successful in most time, there was one frustration. I graduated from high school in 2009 and took Chinese College Entrance Examination the same year. However the exam result of one course turned out to be unreasonably bad, for which I still do not know the reason.