Education Ministry will pursue every ungraded CSEC, CAPE result – Manickchand

The Education Ministry will be pursuing every ungraded result at the 2022 Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) examinations, in order to ensure that students achieve a fair grade.
Students who wrote the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) and the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) would have received an ungraded mark next to some subjects.
While some of these results have already been rectified, Education Minister, Priya Manickchand has positioned that every grade will be pursued to ensure a fair outcome.
“The preliminary results submitted to us had ungraded subjects…It is possible that when students open the portals, you will see ungraded next to a subject you did your best in and that you submitted everything for. We will do as we did in 2020. We will not leave you. We’re going to pursue every last grade until you get a fair and just resolution,” the education minister explained during the official results announcement this week.
In 2020, across 20 countries in the Caribbean, a total of 11,578 students that sat the exams received ungraded in one or more subject area. In Guyana, these revelations sparked widespread public outrage, with other students demanding answers from the examinations body as it relates to the poor grades assigned. The Education Ministry had led robust efforts to ensure there was a review of the results in question.
For CSEC, 10,368 candidates were registered as opposed to 9,808 in 2021. There were 62,990 subject entries. This year, Guyana has seen improvements in both CSEC and CAPE this year, a feat which was credited to the investments in the education sector.
“We invested in the children of this country and you will see results now. That investment won’t stop. It will grow and it will be diverse and equitable.”
To ensure that the country’s pass rate continues on this trajectory, the Minister said investment in resources will compliment their agenda to have 100 per cent trained teachers in the next four years.
“This year, about 75 per cent of our teachers are trained. Before the next four years, 100 per cent of our teachers will be trained or in training. That’s a big move to take up and sustain high pass rates. All our teachers will be taught how to teach. Not only will they have strong content but they will learn how to deliver that to students. “
Before the ending of 2022, all CSEC students will benefit from the textbooks they need along with other support material.
“Looking after how equitably services are delivered. That’s why you can see when we deliver text books and all materials to NGSA students, we didn’t give it to Georgetown students. We didn’t give it to a particular school. We gave it to all our country. Every result you see is an active investment in students.”
Today, the Education Ministry will announce the results for the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) 2022. (G12)