QUEEN’S College Student, 16-year-old Christian Pile is Guyana’s top performer at this year’s Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) Examinations after securing 19 Grade One passes.

Pile secured passes in English Language and Literature, General and Additional Mathematics, Biology, Physics, Chemistry, Integrated Science, Agricultural Science, Social-Studies, Geography, History, Religious Education, Physical Education, Human and Social Biology (HSB), Spanish, Electronic Document Processing and Management (EDPM), Principles of Business (PoB) and Information Technology.

“I always knew that I had the ability to do extremely well when it came to academics,” Pile said in an exclusive interview with the Guyana Chronicle. But though he knew he was a top achiever, there was always some pervasive hesitancy when it came to his results.

For his parents, Fayann Simpson Pile and Nigel Pile however, they knew that he was a “gifted” child who is always destined for the top position.

In 2013, Pile- then a student of the Mae’s Under 12- was the second best performer at the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) and secured himself a place at Queen’s College with 547 marks.

The sitting of the 2018 CSEC and the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examinations (CAPE) began on May, 7.

The Guyana Chronicle had reported that according to information received from the Superintendent of Examinations within the Ministry of Education, Sauda Kadir, 12,266 candidates registered to sit the examinations this year as compared to 12,684 candidates in 2017.