CSEC, CAPE and NGSA results slated for Oct. 14 and 15

Sep 26, 2021 News

Kaieteur News – The Caribbean Examination Council (CXC’)s has chosen Guyana as the host country to ‘release’ this year’s Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) and Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) results on October 14, 2021. These results will be available to candidates on the CXC’s online portal from October 15, 2021. This is according to a release from the Ministry of Education (MOE).
According to the release, the Council’s representatives and MoE officials will preside over this ceremony during which Guyana’s Minster of Education, Ms. Priya Manickchand, is scheduled to deliver the feature address.
The CAPE and CSEC examinations were written during the period of June – July of this year due to the effects, consequences, and impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Caribbean and the world.
The National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) was also affected by the pandemic and was written on August 4 – 5 of this year.
The Ministry reminded that since 2016, CXC was contracted by the Government of Guyana to develop, administer, and mark this examination/assessment annually.
This year however, the Ministry said to further advance the transparency and integrity of the examination/assessment, CXC’s responsibilities were extended and increased to include verification of raw scores as well as the conduct and management of all reviews or appeals after the results are published and further to present the data and analysis of each year’s assessment.
As such, the Ministry of Education has been informed by CXC that the raw scores will be ready and sent from Barbados to Guyana by Tuesday, September 28, 2021, after which the National Data Management Authority (NDMA) will standardise the scores and offer placements according to the scores and print results’ slips.
The Ministry in collaboration with CXC will then announce and release the results by October 15, 2021.
In addition, from this year, the Ministry noted, NGSA candidates will not be penalised because of their raw scores as they were older than 12 years, 6 months at the end of March of the year the examination was written.
The standardised scores per subject will be rounded up to the nearest whole number and the total score will be given as a decimal number thereby offering candidates more fairness.
Further, the MoE urges all of this year’s NGSA, CSEC and CAPE candidates to return all textbooks and resource materials to their respective schools. Failure to do so may result in them not being able to access their results.

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