Exam Results Show Overall Improvement

Contact: John Emmanuel

Thursday, July 12, 2001 - The Ministry of Education, Human Resource Development, Youth and Sports is glowing with pride over the across-the-board improved performance achieved by students who wrote this year’s Common Entrance and Minimum Standards Examinations.

Education officials, who have been analysing the results, said students performed better in almost every aspect of the two examinations this year, compared with last year. The Ministry is also pleased that it was able to assign more students to secondary school places this year than at any time in the past.

“Concerning the Common Entrance, 2,482 students are assigned this year as compared to 2,427,” said Education Minister, Hon. Mario Michel.

  “In absolute numbers, more students were assigned, in percentage terms, a greater percentage of students were assigned, and in terms of the performance of students overall, this year the performance is better than it was last year with 44 per cent being the mean as opposed to 41 per cent last year,” he added.

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