Results for the 2024 National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) will be announced on July 4, the Education Ministry has assured.
A total of 15,488 pupils wrote this year’s NGSA on May 2 and 3. The pupils were tested in English Language, Mathematics, Social Studies and Science.
The reading of results will be done via live broadcast from 10:00hrs on the Ministry’s Facebook page.
In a video message, Education Minister Priya Manickhand said the marking of results is almost complete and grades are being finalised.
“We’re going to be making the results that we have not yet received final. So, I haven’t gotten those results as yet. The process is still happening but I’m assured that it’s going to be finished by next Thursday and so I’ll make the announcement next Thursday,” the minister said.
Manickhand also assured students that regardless of which school they are placed, they will receive a “solid, high-quality” education.
“You’re already a winner”
“Now I want to again congratulate every boy and girl who actually sat the assessment, you’re already a winner. I want to remind you that schools have limited spaces so you might be and most likely are a very bright child but you simply cannot fit in your dream school because it has a limited number of spaces and so our aim is to make sure whichever school you go to, whichever school you earn, that you can get a solid high-quality education through trained teachers, equal resources like your dream school,” she added.
This year, Guyana’s Education Ministry achieved a new milestone by recording the highest number of children writing the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) since onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
According to reports, only a minor percentage of absentees were recorded for the examinations.
“Since Covid-19, this is the best we have seen in terms of turnout…with 95 per cent of our attendance registered and a three per cent absentee rate,” the minister underscored.
Declaring that the three per cent absentees is still regarded as a high percentage for the ministry, she revealed that work is ongoing to reduce this amount, as the ministry expects to reconcile the numbers for absent pupils.
“This is too high, as even (one) per cent would be too high for the ministry as well, and we will reconcile that number. When I say reconcile, I mean that if a child was going to St Pius but left without informing the ministry to go to a private school, and registered there and did the exams, they would be regarded as a walk-in, but at St Pius an absentee. So, when they reconcile the numbers, they expect to see a decrease,” Manickchand said back in May. (G1)
