QC’s Elisa Hamilton tops the country at CSEC 2014
WINNERS ROW: Minister of Education Priya Manickchand flanked by some of this year’s top CSEC and CAPE performers from Queen’s College. Absent from the line-up is CSEC top-performer, Elisa Hamilton, who, like so many other students at this time of year, is away on vacation (Photo by Adrian Narine)
QUEEN’S College student Elisa Hamilton achieved 19 Grade 1s and one Grade 2 to become Guyana’s top performer at the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examination for 2014.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Education also recorded another tremendous achievement with a 9.72% increase in mathematics, making this year the best in terms of performance since 1990.
Skeldon Line Path Secondary student Bharti Bhoge copped second position with 17 Grade 1s, while third is Larissa Whiltshire of Queen’s College, also with 17 Grade 1s.
At the CSEC level, at Queen’s College, 98.77% of the students who wrote the 2014 examinations gained Grades 1 to 3 passes, closely followed by the Bishops’ High School with an overall pass rate of 98.7%, and St. Joseph’s High with a 96.22% pass rate.
With more than 13,000 students writing the CSEC examination in Guyana, the Education Ministry is expecting a better performance from students this year. From the grand total of 13,721 students, 12,366 sat mathematics while 11,384 wrote English Language A.
Speaking at a press conference at the National Centre for Educational Resource Development (NCERD) in Kingston, Minister of Education Priya Manickchand congratulated all the students on a job well done and encouraged them to continue with the same determination as they further themselves academically. Manickchand also congratulated and thanked the teachers involved for achieving an improvement in the CSEC and CAPE results for 2014. “I would like to thank profusely the parents of the students that wrote CSEC and CAPE, the teachers, head teachers, the administration and all who assisted in any way to help our students perform well,” she said.
BEST YEAR FOR MATHS
The Education Minister noted that 38.7% of the students who wrote CSEC Mathematics gained Grade 1 to 3 passes. Though the figure remains under the 50% mark, it also represents a better performance compared to results recorded since 1990. She emphasised that “this is the best performing year in mathematics ever recorded.” Last year, just 28.92% of the students who wrote CSEC mathematics gained Grade 1 to 3 passes.
Minister Manickchand noted that there was an increase in the number of candidates who wrote CSEC in 2014 and the private schools amounted to 37% of the total entries. The 2014 CESC results revealed that the overall pass rate at the General and Technical proficiencies for Grades 1 to 3 was 60.21% as opposed to 59.31 in 2013.
Several candidates recorded outstanding performances at this year’s Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE), and among the top students for the country are Cecil Cox and Deowattie Narine, both of Queen’s College, securing Grade 1 passes in seven subjects, Manickchand highlighted. She also noted that the overall pass rate in 2014 for CAPE is 85.07%, a slight decrease from 86.6% in 2013.
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