Minister of Education, Priya Manichand To The Rescue…We Will Leave No Stone Unturned
After a significant outcry from students in Guyana, the Minister of Education, Priya Manichand filed a claim with the Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) within the region.
“The Ministry of Education – Guyana is registering vehemently with the Caribbean Examination Council (CXC), its dissatisfaction with the apparent poor grading of students at the 2020 CSEC and CAPE examinations.”
A statement from the Ministry’s website indicates that the Ministry is concerned with the recent grades that did not reflect the students’ performance, and there might be multiple discrepancies.
“The Ministry of Education is concerned that there seem to be discrepancies with the grades that were awarded in particular subject areas to students across the country.”
The complaints from the students are as follows:-
-Discrepancies in teachers’ projected grades and CXC final awards are significant in many students’ results.
Maximum SBA scores attained students who strongly believed that they answered the multiple-choice questions (many of which were questions repeated from previous years) correctly and received low grades.
-Students of schools that have been historically performing optimally in these examinations have been awarded low grades at this year’s CSEC and CAPE results, representing a stark deviation from the norm. Nothing else in those schools has changed, including the teachers.
-The same students in year one CAPE who did excellently scored poorly in year two.
Schools that submitted all of the SBAs within the timeframe received confirmation emails from CXC and received an ungraded result in some subject areas.
-There were unacceptable grades for Integrated Mathematics, Pure Maths papers one and two, and Caribbean Studies at many schools
Students from the region took to social media to express their satisfaction and filed several petitions. Priya Manichand indicated that she would leave no stone “unturned” and seek a resolution to the problem.