Georgetown: The Education Ministry will today unveil the results of this year’s Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations and the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE).
The announcement will be made at a news conference scheduled for 11:00h by Education Minister Priya Manickchand. The press conference will be held in the auditorium of the National Centre for Education Resource Development (NCERD) and will be streamed live on the Ministry’s website www.education.gov.gy.
Thirteen thousand, seven hundred and twenty-one (13,721) students were enlisted to sit the CSEC examinations this year. Some 12,366 candidates would have written Mathematics and 11,484 English.
At the examination, one student wrote 20 subjects; two wrote 19 subjects; four wrote 18 subjects; 16 wrote 17 subjects; 18 wrote 16 subjects and 2500 students wrote between seven and eight subjects.
CSEC subjects are examined for certification at the General and Technical Proficiencies, which provide students with the foundation for further studies and entry into the workplace.
CSEC uses a six-point-grading scheme, which is used to report on the performance of the candidate under six overall and profile grades as follows: Overall grades – I, II, III, IV, V, VI. Profile grades – A, B, C, D, E, F.
Meanwhile, 795 candidates wrote CAPE. The highest subject entries were Caribbean Studies with a total of 365 entries and Communication Studies with 400 entries. CAPE is designed to provide certification of the academic, vocational and technical achievement of students in the Caribbean who, having completed a minimum of five years of secondary education, wish to further their studies.
Last year, Guyana dominated the CSEC examinations, picking up five of the eight top awards. Topping the list of awardees was Yogetta Persaud of Anna Regina Secondary School, who was presented with an award for Overall Outstanding Achievement.
Rafeena Mohammed from the Saraswatie Vidya Niketan School copped the award for Most Outstanding Student in Humanities; Cecil Cox of Queen’s College for Most Outstanding Student in Sciences; Sasha Woodroffe of Queen’s College for Most Outstanding Student in Business Studies; and Zimeena Rasheed of Anna Regina Secondary School for Most Outstanding Student in Technical Vocational Studies.
The other awards were in the areas of Visual Arts–Two-Dimensional Work, Visual Arts–Three-Dimensional Work and Short Story Writing.
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