ONCE again, Guyanese students have topped the region in the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examination and the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) and have managed to also walk away with four of seven regional awards this year.

Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand, delivered the good news on Friday in a video that was posted on the ministry’s Facebook page.
This is the fourth consecutive year that the Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) has recognised the outstanding performance of Guyanese students.
“Our students have performed excellently once again at the CSEC level and at the CAPE level which is evidence that our education system is striving and doing well and better as we go along,” Manickchand said.

After students all around the Caribbean were assessed, the education minister noted that Guyana tops again as the region’s most outstanding CSEC student is Alex Muntaz of the Anna Regina Secondary School.

Muntaz following the release of preliminary results in August, was announced as Guyana’s top CSEC performer having written 27 subjects and obtaining 23 grade ones and four grade twos. This is the second consecutive year that the country’s top student is from the Region Two school.
Muntaz also copped the prize for the Most Outstanding Technical/ Vocational Education student for the Caribbean region.
The minister also announced that for the entire region, ISA Islamic student, Siddiq Gafar was the most outstanding in business, while Naila Rahaman of Queen’s College is the most outstanding student in humanities. Rahaman’s schoolmate, Abigail Stephanas if the most outstanding student in the sciences.

Virendra Dookie of Saraswati Vidya Niketan located in Region Three, is Guyana’s second most outstanding CSEC student.
Meanwhile, for CAPE, Naresh Jagnanan, Guyana’s top CAPE student who is originally from the Essequibo Islands Secondary School, topped the region. After excelling at CSEC, the Wakenaam resident opted to relocate to Georgetown to pursue CAPE studies at Queen’s College.

The nine grade ones and one grade two he secured at this year’s CAPE examinations was enough to put him at the top of the list.
Minister also announced that Joshua Gulab of Queen’s College is Guyana’s second most outstanding CAPE student.
“I want you to remember, we’ve always topped with CSEC but we struggled a little bit with copping the top awards at CAPE,” she said while adding that Guyana has been making strides in improving performance at both exams.

In August, the Education Ministry announced that Guyana has recorded significant performances in several subject areas for both CAPE and CSEC examinations.
At the time it was noted that some 12,819 students sat both exams in the country with 701 of those completing CAPE and 12,118 completing CSEC.