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Aug 20, 2016 News
– final results to be known by October
Candidates of the 2016 Caribbean Secondary Certificate Education (CSEC) examination and the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) are currently eligible to have their results reviewed. This assertion was made by Superintendent of Examination and local Registrar of Exams, Ms Sauda Kadir.
Kadir’s disclosure was forthcoming at a forum earlier this week to announce the results of the two Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC)-administered examinations.
According to Kadir, “we are in the preliminary results stage and the students have an opportunity to do reviews or queries with the Caribbean Examinations Council.”
The Exams Superintendent explained that while the preliminary results essentially serve to present the highest number of grade ones secured by candidates, there are still criteria used to identify the top performers and that will not be known until October.
Based on the preliminary results the national top performer this year is 16-year-old Fatima Karim of St. Rose’s High School who was followed closely by Kayshav Tewari of Queen’s College. Karim secured 19 grade ones and 1 grade two passes while Tewari secured 19 grade ones.
The previous year Victoria Najab of the Sarawati Vidya Niketan Hindu school was the top performer with 20 grade ones passes, the year before that it was Elisa Hamilton of the Queen’s College who had performed a similar feat as Karim.
One year earlier it was Zimeena Rasheed of the Anna Regina Secondary School, with 18 grade one passes and two grade twos, who was declared the top national CSEC performer. However, following CXC’s analysis it was Rasheed’s classmate, Yogeeta Persaud, with 18 grade one passes who was named the Regional top performer.
Rasheed on the other hand was named the best performing candidate in Techinical Vocation.
Former CXC Registrar, Dr. Didacus Jules, in an interview with this publication had revealed that while he is aware of calls being made to limit the number of subjects candidates write at the CSEC, the matter at that time had not come up for deliberation at the level of CXC.
“We don’t consider it to be a matter under CXC’s purview; this is a matter for parents, the schools and ultimately the Ministry,” said Dr. Jules.
However, he said, “Our view on it is that you should not put a limit on people’s capacity; whatever subject you feel you can do you ought to be allowed to do.”
The CXC Registrar underscored though, that one factor that must remain clear is that the number of subjects that are undertaken does not determine whether a candidate is able to secure the status of top regional performer.
Meanwhile, Kadir disclosed that the two top national performers of both CSEC and CAPE are still expected to be eligible for scholarships. According to Kadir, “based on our understanding the presidential scholarship is still available.”
The presidential scholarships were first introduced under the People’s Progressive Party/Civic Government, whereby students were eligible to apply to universities of their choice. Some of the students, however, did not accept the scholarships under the PPP/C regime as they were in fact not all eligible to pursue studies at universities of their choosing.
But Minister of State Joseph Harmon last year disclosed that because of its emphasis on young people, the coalesced A Partnership for National Unity and Alliance for Change Government, is committed to continuing the granting of scholarships to the top performers to Universities of their choosing up to last year.
“Thereafter Cabinet has mandated the Minister of Education (Dr. Rupert Roopnaraine) to examine the programme carefully and to come up with firm recommendations,” Harmon revealed.
He said, too, that Cabinet has also given guidance to Minister of Education that in looking at the condition for the award of scholarships, “the Minister and the Ministry consider scholarships at UG for people in Guyana.”
This essentially meant, according to Harmon, that the scholarship programme will be expanded, whereby the scholarships will no longer be limited to the top performing students pursuing studies abroad, but will include “deserving students in Guyana who can pursue degrees at UG.”
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