RESULTS for the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) examination which was held on April 1 and 2 of this year are expected to be released on June 11, 2015.This was according to a release by the Education Ministry, which stated that while the marking of these papers has been completed, the marked scripts are being processed nationally, supported by other systems to ensure a timely release of the highly anticipated results.
Approximately 15,200 candidates wrote the examination in April, when they were tested in four subject areas: English Language, Mathematics, Science and Social Studies. On Wednesday, April 1, the English Language and Science subjects were administered, while Mathematics and Social Studies followed the next day.
The NGSA is a placement examination offered at the end of the primary school cycle to determine in which secondary school students will be placed. These candidates have already done the National Grade Four and Grade Two Assessments back in 2013 and 2011, respectively.
According to the statement, this is the third consecutive year that the ministry will release the NGSA results promptly as indicated, through the continued enhancement of the overall quality management processes of the examination.
In another recent release, the Education Ministry had disclosed that Guyana has attained universal primary education, a Millennium Development Goal (MDG).
“This means that all Guyanese boys and girls of primary school age can access primary education,” the ministry said, while extending best wishes to the 2015 NGSA candidates.
Meanwhile, students at the secondary level are currently in the process of sitting the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) and the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) countrywide.
The CSEC examinations are equivalent to the Ordinary Level (O-Levels) examinations and target students 16 years and older. CAPE, on the other hand, is taken by students who have completed their secondary education and wish to continue their studies at the secondary level.
Scheduled initially for May 11 and 12, two of the examinations had to be rescheduled to June 15 and 16 due to a clash with the hosting of the recently concluded general and regional elections.
Following deliberations with the then Government and the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC), the decision was taken to reschedule the exams. It was later disclosed that this shift in the exam dates would cost the government some Gy$80M.
The then Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand, had also assured the media that despite the fact Guyanese candidates would be sitting the exams at a later date, their results would be available on time with the rest of the Region.