Anna Regina, QC students share top spot at CSEC with 23 grade ones each

…urges students to be disciplined, dedicated about their future

Students of the Anna Regina Multilateral School and Queen’s College have tied for the top position in the country at this year’s Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examination, each securing 23 Grade Ones.
The country’s top students are Dave Chowtie from Queen’s College, who wrote 29 subjects and copped 23 grade ones and 6 grade twos and Pradesh Dwarka of Anna Regina Multilateral School wrote 26 subjects and secured 23 grade one passes and three grade twos.

Rudranauth Sankar also from Anna Regina Multilateral School, scored 23 grade ones and 1 grade two passes.
These positions – while not officially adjudged as first place by the Education Ministry– are based on the preliminary results announced by Education Minister, Priya Manickchand on Tuesday.
Beaming with excitement Pradesh Dwarka revealed that watching his former peers from Anna Regina excel at last year’s CSEC examination, encouraged him to tackle 26 subjects at once.
When asked about his career choice, Dwarka shared that he plans to further his studies at a tertiary institution to major in civil engineering. He explained that excelling in the field will allow him to elevate his father’s contracting business.
“This is a feeling I’ve been longing for so long ever since I saw those boys doing so well, I thought to myself that I want to become one of them and I worked really hard for it. Going into the preparation, I had to study for long hours, sacrificing sleep, I love to play games but I cut off games for the whole year… My dad is a contractor and he always needs a civil engineer… I really want to help him because after school he takes me to all his work sites and I was like wow, he builds a lot of things and in my perspective, I see myself in that field,” Dwarka shared.

Meanwhile, Dave Chowtie of Queen’s College shared that he has already applied to an international university to further his studies in medical sciences given that he aspires to become a neurosurgeon.
Commenting on schedule for the examination, Chowtie expressed that he’s faced many challenges, which resulted in him studying before and after exams.
While he managed to emerge as a top student, Chowtie is urging students preparing to sit the 2025 examination to be disciplined and dedicated to their future.
“I would tell them to get your SBAs out of the way early so that you have a lot of time to study, make sure you focus in class, YouTube helps a lot and you have to study from your syllabus because the syllabus is exactly what is going to come on the exam,” he stated.
A number of other students have performed remarkably at this year’s CSEC.
Venisha Devi Lall from Anna Regina Multilateral secured 18 grade ones, 8 grade twos and 3 grade threes.
Anaaya Jain of Queen’s College scored 17 grade ones, 6 grade twos and 1 grade three, while Simran Edmond from the same institution scored 14 grade ones, 6 grade twos and 1 grade three.
Simran Edmond told this publication that she will be starting her A Level CAPE classes soon, as she follows her grandfather’s and mother’s footsteps to join the legal fraternity.
Edmond who hopes to also excel at CAPE in order to secure a scholarship to study law abroad, said she plans to remain focused going forward.
“There were some days where it didn’t matter whether I was motivated or not and this is actually something that my friend told me; you know it doesn’t matter whether you feel like doing the work today or tomorrow or next week all it comes done to is having the discipline to do the work and when put in the hours. When everyone is asleep, you’re still trying to fix this SBA or trying to see what you don’t understand in this math equation. Its all about being discipline and willing to put in the hard work,” she said.
A total of 11,612 students sat this year’s Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examination.
Meanwhile, several candidates also recorded outstanding performances in the Caribbean Advance proficiency examination (САРЕ).
These include Aniyah Couchman of Queens College who secured grade one passes in 11 units, grade two in two units, and grade three in One unit.
Gabriella Roberts of Queens College who copped six grade ones, Omar Holders of St. Stanislaus College who secured 8 Grade ones and Jenna Hoosein of Saraswati Vidya Niketan that secured six grade ones. (G1)