THE third batch of visually impaired persons is currently preparing to sit the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations this May/June.This year, 10 more persons will write the exams in seven subject areas; namely, Human and Social Biology, English Language, Principles of Business, Office Administration, Social Studies, Caribbean History, and Religious Education.

The 10 students are almost finished with the syllabus, and are wrapping up their SBAs. They are also preparing to start working on past papers. The students who sit the same exams, as anyone else across the Caribbean, do so using computers that are equipped with the JAWS Software.

The CSEC project for the blind is supported by the Ministry of Education, and the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GT&T) Company Limited helps out by providing free Internet service.

Ganesh Singh, one of the teachers preparing the students, told this publication the foregoing. Besides being programme coordinator for the CSEC project for the blind, Singh is also a member of the Board of the Guyana Society for the Blind.

“The blind refers to those who are visually impaired and people with physical disabilities. And we are encouraging any other blind person who is interested to writing the exams to contact us on 226-4496 and 231-7976,” Singh told the Chronicle.

Singh recalled that in 2014 there was an 82.4 per cent pass rate, while, in 2015, an 80 per cent pass rate was recorded.