CXC’s e-Preslip to allow earlier entry into universities – CEO Saddam Hussain

The Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) has introduced an electronic Preslip (e-Preslip) system which will see graduating secondary students who desire to attend a university immediately, having access to a valid copy of their results.
The platform comes on the heels of calls issued to the Council by past students of the Caribbean Secondary Examinations Certificate (CSEC) and Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE).
Usually, CXC and CAPE certificates are made available to students in the Caribbean after the official release and verification of results, which is completed around late September or October.

Tertiary Institutions, including the University of Guyana (UG) begin classes in September and as a result, students who miss the registration process will have to wait until January of the following year to apply.
The e-Preslip aims to eliminate this challenge by allowing CSEC/CAPE students to access their grades and submit them to the university of their choice, just after accessing it through the CXC portal.
During his presentation at Tuesday’s announcement of the 2024 CSEC and CAPE results, Guyana’s Chief Education Officer Saddam Hussain explained that this new mechanism will ensure students can begin classes with the first cohort of applicants.
“When you go on to the CXC portal, you put in your information, you will see your results listed there. At the top menu, you can simply click on download e-slip. So, what will happen is that would prompt you to download like you normally download a game or document. So, here is the good thing about the e-slip, if you are going to the University in Guyana (UG) or abroad all you have to do is forward this e-slip. The e-slip comes with a barcode so somebody at the university can simply scan and they go straight to CXC’s database that contains your results,” Hussain explained.
According to the CEO, Guyana’s Education Ministry through its Examination Division plans to take full advantage of this new feature.
“For this year, we will still be printing slips for schools that may not necessarily have this support mechanism at this time but I want to encourage all of us, let us move ahead with the e-slip. In this way you don’t have to run to school, you have your slip… For those persons who need the slip to apply to universities abroad, you don’t need to come get the slip and scan it and so on, it’s right there [online],” he added.
A total of 11,612 students sat this year’s CSEC examination while 721 students wrote CAPE.
The 2024 CSEC 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.
The CAPE top student is Aniyah Couchman of Queens College who secured grade 1 passes in 11 units, grade two in two units, and grade three in 1 unit.