Jonelle James top CAPE student - Six QC students dominate CAPE
- Pass rate jumps to 86.2 percent,
- Ms. Manickchand visits top performers
Written by Leroy Smith
Wednesday, 08 August 2012 22:43
Source - Guyana Chronicle
SEVENTEEN- year old Queens College student, Jonelle James of 28 George Avenue, Lamaha Springs has topped Guyana at the Caribbean Advance Proficiency Examination (CAPE). She earned for herself five grade ones in: Biology, Caribbean Studies, Chemistry, Food and Nutrition and Pure Mathematics. She is the daughter of Cornel Sydney James of the Guyana Defense Force.
FIVE GRADE ONES: Guyanese top CAPE performer Jonelle James
At the moment Ms. James is in the United States of America. Her mom said that when her daughter got the news she was extremely overwhelmed and could hardly control her excitement. She said that her daughter along with several students of Queens College who are presently in the US yesterday teamed up and decided to go to the movies to celebrate the achievement.
The announcement of the results was made by education Minister Priya Manickchand at the National Centre for Education Resource Development (NCERD). However by the time the results were announced, most of the 740 students who sat the examination were already aware of their results since it was available on the internet.
The other five top performers at the examination are Navindra Baldeo, Christopher Chinnatambi, Kelly Ann Persaud, Melodie Lowe and Raphel Bascom all of Queens College.
5 subjects, Guyana’s Education Minister Priya Manickchand congratulates Navindra Baldeo on his performance at the CAPE examinations.
Following the announcement of the results the Education Minister went in search of the top performers to congratulate them on their hard work and subsequent achievement. However because of time and the absence of some of the students from their homes at the time the minister was only able to meet with Christopher and Navindra respectively.
While Christopher received his congratulations from the minister at his gate yesterday, Navindra met with Minister Manickchand at a four corner in Bel Air Park.
Speaking with the media after being greeted by the minister, Christopher said that while the transition from CSEC (Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate) to CAPE was hard, it became easy after he placed his mind on the task and remained focus. According to the 19 year old there must be a balance between the studying and other activities in order to be able to perform. He said that he plans to enroll into the University of Guyana where he will be examining the p
6 subjects, Christopher Chinnatambi is shown his results by education Minister Priya Manickchand yesterday at his home.
ossibility of doing either chemistry or biology.
Meanwhile an excited and elated Navindra told the media that he expected to perform satisfactory but the results he received yesterday came to him as a surprise. He said that he will be moving on to the University of the West Indies where he plans to study medicine. He indicated to the minister and the media that he has a scholarship from the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC). The 18year old credited his success to hard group studies and working several past papers. He said that while he is a little weak in the area of mathematics the other subjects were pretty much not a big deal for him to master.
It was after lunch that we caught up with Melodie Lowe at her Greenville Park home on the East Coast of Demerara. She was not as lucky as her two male school mates to be congratulated by the Education Minister; however she said that she was dealing with the results very calmly and not getting too over-excited. According to Lowe, she was able to attain the passing grades because of dedication and hard work. She said that she
5 subjects Melodie Lowe speaks to the media after receiving word that she was among the top six CAPE performers.
started studying real hard in October of last year. Asked about the challenges at the examinations, the young lady said that while she is a lover of Mathematics and has no problems mastering the subject, it was the biology that she had a fight with. She said that she will be returning to Queens College where she plans to write the very subjects at the higher level. Asked about higher studies after that next round of CAPE, Lowe said that she is still contemplating if she will be doing higher studies at the University of Guyana or some other university abroad.
During her press conference yesterday Ms. Manickchand said that Guyana registered a pass rate of 86.2 percent as against 82.5 in 2011. The number of students who wrote the examination this year was 740 against the 627 in 2011.
Manickchand told the media that the overall performance in 2012 as compared to previous years is a better. Grade ones in 2012 are 9.3/1 against 6.9/1 in 2011. Grade two in 2012 are 19.08 as against 12.6/8 in 2011. Grade threes in 2012 are 21.7/4 against 21.1-9 in 2011. Grade four in 2012
5 subjects; Kelly Ann Persaud another top CAPE performer
are 21.7/4 against 23.2/1 in 2011. Grade five in 2012, 20.0/6 against 18.5/3 in 2011.
The minister added that there has been a four percentage point increase in 2012 from 82 to 86 representing children who passed with grades one to five. In distributing the percentages by gender the minster said that male students accounted for 39.3 percent of the 86 percent while the female students accounted for the remaining 60.7 percent.
In the area of Mathematics the performance t stood at 54.3/8 in 2012 as against 47.7-2 in 2011. The area of Physics unit one had improved from 77.9/5 in 2011 to 93.6 percent in 2012.
Among the subjects listed as being those that saw improvement are Caribbean Studies, Accounting, Computer Science, 1 and 2, Communication Studies, Physics Biology 2 Chemistry 1 and 2, Management of Business, pure mathematics literature, History and English.
5 subjects Raphel Bascom one of the six top CAPE performers
The subjects that saw a decline in its pass rate percentage are Literature and English-one, Information Technology, Management, Sociology and Applied Mathematics.
Listed as subjects that continue to retain it performance percentages are Sociology, Geography, law and environmental science.
Among the centres used for the sitting of the examinations were schools from several regions of the country and are located in Region Four, Region Ten, Region Six and the Georgetown educational district.
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