Nearly two months after thousands of Grade Six students across Guyana sat the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA), the anticipation for results day has officially commenced. The release date for the NGSA was officially announced by Education Minister Priya Manickchand on Monday during a live broadcast on her Facebook page.
File photo: Students sitting the NGSA exams in April 2025
“I’m very, very glad to tell you that we are going to be announcing NGSA 2025, the results of NGSA 2025, on Wednesday the 25th of June at 11 o’clock, and we’ll be live. So, join us. I’m very excited to be able to announce these results for many reasons, because this is where you see how well we’ve done.”
The Minister emphasised that the Ministry had previously assured citizens that the NGSA results would be released before June 26, a commitment that has now been honoured.
“I am very glad to say that we had said that we would announce the NGSA on or before the 26th of June. From the moment we wrote it, in fact, before it was written we said that.”
Additionally, the Minister noted that Grade Five students across Guyana are writing the National Grade Five Assessment. This preliminary examination, she explained, will provide the Ministry with critical data on student performance. The results will help inform the development and implementation of targeted measures to ensure that each child is adequately prepared to undertake the NGSA.
“So this morning [Monday] and tomorrow [Tuesday], our Grade Five children are preparing for, well, writing, not preparing their national grade Five exam and that came out of us using this as a diagnostic to determine where our children are, what they know, what we need to improve on.”
Manickchand added, “And we started that last year and it has been very successful in letting us know centrally, regionally and as well as in every classroom, what children need help with and reinforcement of where they’re strong and, you know, what topics we need to redo and so on.”
Meanwhile, the 2025 sitting of the NGSA took place on April 16 and 17. The assessment was primarily based on the Grade Five curriculum, followed by content from a consolidated curriculum. However, the Ministry reminded stakeholders that key concepts from Grades Three and Four are also included in the examination, reflecting the cumulative nature of the assessment.
This year, more than 15,000 pupils across Guyana sat the NGSA examinations of 2025, with the Ministry of Education reporting a record-high attendance rate of 98 per cent, the best turnout since before the COVID-19 pandemic.
A total of 15,813 students were registered to write the two-day national examinations and of that number 15,497 turned up for the assessment. Among those sitting the exams were 115 students with Special Education Needs (SEND) and, notably, 91 students wrote the assessments in Spanish, a historic first, introduced last year.
NGSA is spearheaded by the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC). Similar to the structure since 2016, CXC prepares the examination, supervises its administration, marks the scripts, conducts quality checks and conducts consequential reviews if any are requested.
For this National exam candidates are tested in four subjects namely, Mathematics, English, Science and Social Studies. The examination in each subject area consists of two papers. Paper One consists of multiple-choice items while Paper Two consists of essay-type or open-ended items.
