Education ministry anticipates good account from common entrance examinees
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Contact: Claudia Monlouis
Thursday, June 19, 2008 – The Ministry of Education has expressed satisfaction with the successful manner in which the 2008 Common Entrance Examinations have been conducted, and anticipates excellent feedback early next month, when results will be announced.
Over three thousand sat the exams, anticipating successful entry to one of the island's 23 public secondary schools, which would mark a pivotal point in their educational development.
Registrar of Exams in the Ministry of Education Philomene Alexander said all students are guaranteed a secondary school place, thanks to universal secondary education, in effect in Saint Lucia from 2006.
Ms. Alexander explained: “Results according to our schedule should be released on the 11th of July - the last day of the school term. We expect all our children to do well; we know the teachers have been working very hard at the primary school level in preparing those students to write the common entrance exams. We're expecting the national mean to be higher than what it has been in previous years.”
The Common Entrance Examinations, she said, will be assessed locally in part, as well as regionally.
''The subjective component is corrected locally by our teachers and the multiple choice component is fed through to CXC using the scanner so they can capture the data.” the registrar explained.
The students wrote a Mathematics problem paper, a Language Arts paper and the General paper on Wednesday June, 18th, at 17 secondary schools turned into examination centres for the purpose of the exams. |
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