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NGSA results set for official release today
The identity of the top performing candidate at the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) will be revealed today by Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand.
NDMA General Manager, Mr. Godfrey Proctor (right) hands over the 2014 NGSA results to Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand (second from left). Also in photo are: NDMA Software Development Manager, Ms Drupattie Miller (second from right) and Superintendent of Exams, Ms Sauda Khadir.
This publication has been able to ascertain that the top performing pupil attends a city primary school which will be among the schools that will be visited by the Minister following her official announcement of the results.
The results were officially handed over to the Education Minister yesterday by General Manager of the National Data Management Authority (NDMA), Mr Godfrey Proctor.
The release of the results represents the second consecutive year that the results are being released in early June.
Last year the results were unveiled on June 7 with Salma Majeed of the ISA Islamic Academy being the top performing candidate. She scored 548 points out of a possible 560.
The results this year will be announced at a press conference venued at the National Centre for Educational Resource Development (NCERD), and will be transmitted live via the National Communication Network (NCN) radio and television. The presentation will also be streamed simultaneously on the Ministry’s website www.education.gov.gy.
The Ministry had earlier this year announced that the results will be available for release by the end of June, which was attributed to the continued enhancement of the overall quality management processes of the examination.
The NGSA was held on April 16 and 17, 2014, at centres across Guyana, with just over 15,000 candidates participating. They were assessed in the four subject areas of English Language, Mathematics, Science and Social Studies, each of which consisted of two papers.
And although the analysis of the results revealed that there were irregularities detected in Region One, the Ministry in a statement had assured that the integrity of the results would not be compromised.
Although an investigation had commenced by the Ministry in this regard more than a week ago, there has since been no forthcoming report on the matter as of yesterday. However, the Ministry had said that it is committed to making public its findings at the end of its investigation.
In recent years, the Ministry of Education has established a number of quality assurance mechanisms to ensure that examinations and their subsequent results are of the highest integrity. In fact, it was these measures that allowed for the identification of the irregularities, the Ministry had boasted.
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