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Education Ministry to unveil 2017 NGSA results today

Jun 30, 2017 News

The results of the National Grade Six Assessment [NGSA] will be released today by the Ministry of Education. This is according to information issued by the Ministry yesterday.
Although the announcement of the results over the past few years was done at a televised ceremony at the Kingston, Georgetown National Centre for Educational Resource Development [NCERD], the Ministry has informed that this year it will be done in the Boardroom of the Ministry’s 26 Brickdam, Georgetown office at 13:00 hours.
More than 13,000 pupils participated in the assessment which targeted schools, both public and private, across the country.
The 2017 sitting of the NGSA was conducted on April 12 and 13. The assessment is designed to determine where pupils are likely to undertake their secondary education.
Pupils are usually tested in the subject areas of Mathematics, English, Science and Social Studies at the NGSA. Mathematics has been one of the areas that the pupils have, over the years, been showing severe signs of weakness. This had, moreover, prompted a Governmental order for measures to be engaged by the Education Ministry to address poor performances in Mathematics.
As such, earlier this year, pupils were required to sit three mock examinations as part of measures to prepare them for the April assessment. Because of this deliberate intervention, Chief Education Officer [CEO], Mr. Marcel Hutson said that he anticipates improve performances in the public education system this year, particularly in the area of Mathematics.

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