GUYANESE students have secured an overwhelming number of high grades at the 2025 Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations and the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE).

This outstanding performance follows the roll out of interventions by the Ministry of Education, which included the distribution of resources to all students and the implementation of performance boosting measures.

Teachers, parents, relatives, friends and supporters, and most importantly, the students who worked hard to secure good grades in all of their subjects, have been eagerly awaiting the results.

This year’s top CSEC performer, Jayden Adrian, a Queen’s College student, wrote a total of 27 subjects, gaining 21 grade ones, and six grade twos.

Feeling very fulfilled, Jayden said for the past two years, this is what he was working towards and was not prepared to settle for less.

He explained to reporters that the main reason he wrote 27 subjects was to achieve a scholarship from the Guyana Government to study abroad.

Speaking of his plans for the future which include attending university, Jayden is desirous of following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather by becoming a mechanical engineer.

However, he noted that his career choice could change as he also has an interest in aeronautics.

Two years ago, standing in a similar position was Arthur Roberts, another Queen’s College student who made the news as a top performer at the 2023 CSEC examinations with 17 grade ones and five grade twos. This year, Roberts is in the news again as the 2025 top CAPE student. He gained nine grade ones and four grade twos in the CAPE second year.

He stated that his motivation came from the community he had around him, which included his teachers, parents, family members, schoolmates, and QC-affiliated institutions. They all continue to guide and push him forward.

“I’m only here because of the people that have pushed me here. I’m a representation of all of those people that have impacted me in my life thus far,” he said.

Roberts said that the year was filled with mandatory activities, and a number of disruptions. “At that point in time, as surprising as it was to the entirety of the institution, we were able, not only myself as a prefect or the prefect body, but through the teachers of the institution, the remainder of staff, the Queen’s College Old Students Association, the Board of Governors, and the Parent Teachers Association, they had quick meetings and made quick decisions to ensure not only our safety, but our provisions as we moved into the examination period in January.”

He advised persons to look within, look outwards to other people, and do all they can to find strategies that will work for them.

“CAPE is not everyone’s cup of tea, and it’s not something that’s easily achievable, but I do believe that with the correct will, the correct input and the correct discipline anyone can achieve anything they put their minds to,” Roberts emphasised.