An excellent American student wowed his teacher recently with the short note he left on his examination answer script.

The boy, who his teacher described as a ‘straight A+ guy’, took it upon himself to sacrifice his own perfect scores to ensure one of his struggling classmates gets a boost.

After completing his exam, he left a heartwarming note on the last page, which was shared by his teacher on social media.

The pupil politely wrote:

“If you could, can you give my bonus points to whoever scores the lowest?”

The message left Winston Lee stunned, knowing the student wasn’t trying to help a friend but simply anyone who needed it.

It gained more than 77,000 likes, over 3,500 comments and has been shared over 56,000 times as teacher Winston Lee, from Kentucky, wrote that the small gesture gave him ‘so much hope’.

“Have to shout this out,” he wrote on Facebook . “Had honestly never seen this.

“One of my guys, a straight A+ guy, offers up his 5 bonus points to someone in need. Anyone.

“Totally offering up what is rightfully his, his earning, to any peer that may have been struggling especially hard the day of the test.

“He didn’t care if he considered them a friend, didn’t care if they were cool, didn’t matter to him what situation had caused them to score lower, he just wanted to help, be kind, commit a loving act.

“This note gave me so much hope. Let us all be a little more like this young man!!”

Other Facebook users were equally moved by the act as one wrote: “Amazing kid, I wish it was easy to teach more children to be like this.”

A second said: “Where was this person at when I was in school?”

Another wrote: “Someone is raising that boy right!”

See the exam script: