Two Guyanese have emerged as the most outstanding overall performers at this year’s Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) and the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examination, the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) announced on Friday.
Atishta Seenarine, the Caribbean’s best-performing CAPE student
Atishta Seenarine of the Saraswati Vidya Niketan School, who gained 18 Grade Ones, is the Caribbean’s most outstanding CAPE student.
On the other hand, Vish Kistama of Berbice High School (BHS), who secured 15 Grade Ones and three Grade Twos is the country’s second-best student at CAPE.
Daniel Dowding
However, Outam Heeralall of Anna Regina Multilateral School is the Region’s best-performing student at CSEC, having attained 25 Grade Ones.
In addition, Ramoll Baboolall who gained 25 Grade Ones and two Grade Twos, and Daniel Dowding, who gained 22 Grade Ones and three Grade Twos, are Guyana’s second and third best-performing students, respectively, at CSEC.
Both Baboolall and Dowding are from the Anna Regina Multilateral School.
Joshua Adrian
Seenarine was also named the most outstanding overall student in Natural Sciences at the CAPE level. At the CSEC level, Saskia Twahir of Queen’s College is the most outstanding student in Humanities and Business.
Outam Heeralall is the Region’s most outstanding CSEC student
Meanwhile, Sheridan Dyal of Queen’s College is the most outstanding student in the Sciences while Heeralall is this year’s most outstanding student in Technical Vocational Education.
Vish Kistama
Joshua Adrian of Diamond Secondary School is the most outstanding student in Agricultural Science (DA). Guyana also received several other awards.
Ramoll Baboolall
A total of 10,368 candidates from Guyana registered for this year’s CSEC examinations as opposed to 9808 in 2021. For CAPE, a total of 671 candidates from 12 secondary schools and four private centres sat the exams. In 2021, there were 723 candidates.
Sheridan Dyal
The Education Ministry has congratulated all the students for their exceptional performance, noting that it wished to thank their teachers and parents for giving them the necessary support to achieve this feat.
