She had to spend 10 times as long as fellow undergraduates to memorise her studies.

'I believe in the saying 'If there is a will, there is a way'. Although I had to sacrifice my weekends and be on the road for two hours a day every weekend to attend classes, it was worth it,' she said on graduation Tuesday.

Her five siblings were there to greet her as she stood all smiles along with 1,075 graduates who received convocation scrolls from University Putra Malaysia Pro-Chancellor Nayan Ariffin.

Incidentally, Gurcharan Kaur has not ended her studies.

She wants to enroll in the Master's programme in TESL at the university, New Straits Times said.

Estimated at 100,000, Sikhs are part of the two million-plus ethnic Indian community that forms eight percent of Malaysia's multi-ethnic 28 million population.