Three students are sharing the top spot as best performers at this year’s National Grade Six Assessment examinations.
The Ministry of Education announced today that Angelica Subryan of Cumberland Primary, Neuel Bancroft of Annandale Primary and Jonathan Gomes of the Josel Institute all gained 518 marks to gain the top spot at this year’s examinations.
The three will all be heading to the nation’s top high school, Queen’s College.
The Ministry of Education also announced improvements in two of the four subjects offered at the examinations when compared to 2021.
Improved performances were recorded in science and social studies while there were slight declines in english and mathematics.
Almost 65% of students who wrote Mathematics did not gain a passing grade in their examination while although it’s an improvement, only 46.5% of the students who wrote Science reached a passing grade.
English recorded the highest pass rate at 64.8% and Social Studies came in second at 58.9%
The Minister of Education Priya Manickchand praised the performance of the students and their teachers, taking into account the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on the education sector over the past two years.
“We didn’t have the luxury of being frightened and throwing up our hands and letting this disease win. We didn’t have that luxury. That would have been cowardly and it would have been against our human nature. We fight back anything that is threatening our existence. And we must always inculcate in ourselves and our children, that culture and belief that nothing is bigger and better than us. And two years on, we have had two NGSAs, two CSECs, two CAPEs and we have topped the Caribbean, put out new curriculum, shared out textbooks, brought in a set of new programmes and once you put your mind to it, and there is political will, it can happen”, Manickchand said.
The Education Minister also noted the effort made by the students who wrote this year’s common entrance examinations, reminding that they were forced to stop going to school two years before the exams as the COVID-19 pandemic hit Guyana.
She said “this is Grade Six and they didn’t have teaching the way we all have come accustomed to teaching since Grade Four. Guyana was one of the first countries to go back to school, even in face of calls by some not to do that and today we see the benefit of that decision. Children during this period had great difficulties adjusting, learning, and the children had tragedies themselves”.
Over 16,000 children wrote this year’s National Grade Six Assessment Examinations at more than 500 centres across the country.
The individual student results could be accessed via the Ministry of Education’s examination portal.
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