PRESIDENT Donald Ramotar will today deliver on his promise to give a laptop computer to each of the 173 children who gained positions in the “top one percent” at this year’s National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) examinations,

which were written by 16,811 students on March 25th and 26th.
The Ministry of Education will be presenting an award to each of these 173 children, and President Donald Ramotar and Education Minister, Priya Manickchand will be in attendance at this event, which is slated to commence at 10:00 hrs at the Theatre Guild in Kingston, Georgetown.
On Friday, 7th June 2013, while delivering on her promise to release the NGSA results earlier than it has ever been released, Education Minister, Priya Manickchand also announced that President Ramotar had decided to give a laptop computer to each child in the “top one percent”.
Salma Majeed of ISA Islamic Academy gained the top position with a score of 548 marks. Coming in second was Christian Pile with 547 marks; third was Navindra Persaud with 545; fourth was Ashtmi Natasha Deo with 543; fifth was Brandon Chanderban with 542; and sixth was Zane Ramotar with 541, all of Mae’s Under 12 School in Georgetown.
Sharing the sixth position was Leshanna Bindah of Stella Maris Primary and Abdur-Rahman Sattaur of Al Ghazali Islamic Academy, who each gained 541 marks.
The ninth position was shared by Divya Jagroo of Graham’s Hall Primary, Daniel Baldeo-Thorne of New Guyana School, and Renee Bisnauth of Cropper Primary, who each scored 540 marks.
The 12th position was gained by Maitri Vathada of Leonora Primary with 539 marks.
Students who wrote the NGSA examination also wrote the National Grade Two Assessment in 2009 and the National Grade Four Assessment in 2011, and the results released provided a report on the candidates’ overall performance at the three assessments.
A percentage of the marks gained at the grades Two and Four assessments was combined with the marks gained at the Grade Six Assessment in order to determine the candidates’ overall scores.
Five percent of each candidate’s Grade Two score in Mathematics and English, and 10 percent of the Grade Four score in the same subjects were added to 85 percent of the candidate’s score in those subjects.
The combined scores in Mathematics and English were added to the scores gained in Science and Social Studies. The highest possible total score obtainable was 560.