REIGATE College students proved they were more than the sum of their parts when they entered a national maths challenge.
More than 30 students at the school in Castlefield Road took part in the UK Mathematics Trust Maths Challenge.
Their results – which included 32 gold, silver and bronze certificates – placed them among the top mathematicians in the country.
The "senior challenge", which the college's lower and upper sixth form students took part in, involved answering 25 multiple choice questions in 90 minutes and was sat in school under exam conditions.
The top 60 per cent of students who took the test were issued with gold, silver or bronze certificates, with three times as many bronze certificates issued as gold ones.
The very best students were then invited to take part in future rounds which could result in them representing their country at the International Mathematical Olympiad.
Reigate student Jack Dale received a gold certificate; 15 others received silver certificates and 16 more earned bronze ones.
Maths teacher Simon King, who entered the students into the competition, said: "This competition requires students to apply their mathematical knowledge in a different way and approach questions in a more abstract manner and think outside the box.
"We entered a selection of lower and upper sixth students who are studying further maths and I'm extremely proud of the 32 students who were awarded a certificate."
In the last academic year more than 600,000 pupils from 4,000 schools have taken part in one of the challenges.
About 1,000 of the top scorers in the Senior Challenge will progress on to the British Mathematical Olympiad Round 1. A further 2,000 are invited to take part in the "senior kangaroo" competition.
The Reigate students sat their exam on November 6 and received their results at the start of this term.
Jack Dale has been invited to take part in the first round of the British Mathematical Olympiad.
Award-winners
Gold: Jack Dale
Silver: Bethany Arnell, Jonathan Bruce, Alex Chater, Harry Cornelius, Rory Crouch, Tatiana Glazkova, Jordon Graham, Cathal Hogan, Matthew Ives, Bailey Lawson, Sean Murrough, Luke Phillips, Guy Taylor, Kane Thomas-Mason and Sam Thompson.
Bronze: Zoe Brace, Edward Brown, James Farrar, Matthew Maher, Kaveet Mattausch, Sharon Mazor, Reuben Mulligan, Jordan Negri-Lennard, Patrick O'Connor, James Rabson, Adam Seabury, Aaron Walker, Tom Watson, Daniel Wood, Harry Woolford and Xinfang Xu.
