Students confident but “kind of nervous too” about NGSA results as exam concludes

Pupils across the country on Thursday wrapped up their final two subjects for the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA).
Guyana Times spoke with a few students, who had mixed reactions to the exam.
The sitting of Social Studies and Mathematics concluded the examination.
Commenting on the examination, 12-year-old Selena Bentick, a student of Rama Krishna Primary, expressed how happy she felt for the challenging exams to be over.

“I feel good to finally be done. I’ve been preparing for this moment; it feels good. It wasn’t easy nor hard, it was challenging,” the young student said.
Aspiring firefighter Alier Paul of St Gabriel’s Primary School said that preparing for the exam was not easy, but it was all worth it in the end.
“It is not easy,” he said, “my phone getting taken away; I cried, but in the end, it is all worth it.”

Another student of Rama Krishna Primary, Hally Maternial, said that she was confident about what her grades would be.
“I feel very confident [about] how I write my exams,” 12-year-old Maternial said. However, she did admit that she was “kind of nervous too”,
Studious Neytiri Bacchus advised her juniors to study hard and try their best to do good when their turn at the NGSA come.

The NGSA began on Wednesday with more than 16,000 students sitting the examination nationwide.
After day one of the examination, students from various schools across Georgetown related facing challenges and difficulties in the Science section, specifically paper two.
Kayla Paterson of St Angela’s Primary related, “It was really good, but Science Paper Two was a little bit hard for us today.”

Paterson, who is aiming to become a student of St Joseph Secondary, expressed that science was the only area she may have fallen short in and she was well-prepared for the final challenges in Mathematics and Social Studies.
Education Minister Priya Manickchand, during an update on Wednesday, said that she anticipated positive outcomes, given the resources and the many initiatives applied to prepare students for the major examination.

The Education Minister had expressed that the Government was committed to ensuring pupils receive a high-quality secondary education.
This year, the NGSA was prepared similar to 2021’s, covering topics up to the Grade Five level based on the consolidated curriculum. (G2)