@Former Member posted:

I think it was the fourth or fifth standard.

I started high school at 14. I wrote it when I was 12. It was abolished in 1962 after my batch and was replaced by another one called Preliminary Certificate of Education. The headmaster asked me if I want to write the exam even though I started high school and I did. I passed that too.

I do think it's fourth , I can recall  writing Preliminary Certificate of Education at fourth standard ,after that  the next was College of Preceptors written at Form 3 ,then GCE "O" and "A" Level.

@Former Member posted:

6th Standard in primary school. My mother got her 6th Standard certificate in 1949. 

5th & 6th Standards were scrapped around 1963, replaced by Forms 1 & 2.

I was not there for forms 1 and 2.

@Ramakant-P posted:

Primary school was up to 6 standard. Those who passed were allowed to study for the Pupil Teacher appointment examination.  If successful they become Pupil Teachers working for $72 dollars per month.  In those days boys did School Gardening and the Girls studied Sewing and Home economics.  It was abolished in 1963/64 abd Primary school certificate was replaced with Preliminary School certificate.

I thought it was PCE, Preliminary Certificate of Education and then you move on to CP, College of Preceptors.

@Former Member posted:

6th Standard in primary school. My mother got her 6th Standard certificate in 1949. 

5th & 6th Standards were scrapped around 1963, replaced by Forms 1 & 2.

In 1968 Primary School was up to Form 3 ,the examination was College of Preceptors.

@kp posted:

I thought it was PCE, Preliminary Certificate of Education and then you move on to CP, College of Preceptors.

That's it.  They were all in the same Primary school. What do you think I posted.

@Django posted:

In 1968 Primary School was up to Form 3 ,the examination was College of Preceptors.

That the year I quit teaching.

@Ramakant-P posted:

That's the year I quit teaching. They were graduating at age 13. as compared to starting high schiool in NA at age 13.

@Former Member posted:

I was not there for forms 1 and 2.

So you moved from 6th Standard ,School Leaving Certificate ,entering 4th Form  the beginning for "O" Levels ?

@Ramakant-P posted:

 That's the year I quit teaching. They were graduating at age 13. as compared to starting high schiool in NA at age 13.

Older than that for Form 3 . At about 13 yrs is Form 1.

@Django posted:

So you moved from 6th Standard ,School Leaving Certificate ,entering 4th Form  the beginning for "O" Levels ?

I was placed in Form 3A in the new high school. That was the highest at that time. We had forms 1, 2, and 3. Yeas, I wrote "O" levels in 1966. The first year, 1963, there was not enough furniture to have all-day school, so we did half days. In the last two years, we had full-time classes while some forms still had half days.

@Former Member posted:

I was placed in Form 3A in the new high school.

That was the highest at that time. We had forms 1, 2, and 3. Yeas, I wrote "O" levels in 1966. The first year, 1963, there was not enough furniture to have all-day school, so we did half days. In the last two years, we had full-time classes while some forms still had half days.

Then you was correctly placed after School Leaving Certificate.

@Django posted:

So you moved from 6th Standard ,School Leaving Certificate ,entering 4th Form  the beginning for "O" Levels ?

No! In pre 1964, you go to Form 1 thru 4 before studying for "o" level.

It was when they start to mess with the system, everything went down hill.  Jagan took out standard 5 & 6 and Burnham took out form 4.

The kids must have been brighter and the teachers more qualified. 

The average grade for Guyanese in English was 55%, the lowest in the caribbean.

@Ramakant-P posted:

No! In pre 1964, you go to Form 1 thru 4 before studying for "o" level.

It was when they start to mess with the system, everything went down hill.  Jagan took out standard 5 & 6 and Burnham took out form 4.

The kids must have been brighter and the teachers more qualified. 

The average grade for Guyanese in English was 55%, the lowest in the caribbean.

In high school, we wrote GCE in form 5.

@Former Member posted:

In high school, we wrote GCE in form 5.

Sure you did.  Me too!

you go to Form 1 thru 4 before studying for "o" level at form 5.

We are talking to a bunch of children who can't remembered if they went to school or not.

@Ramakant-P posted:

No! In pre 1964, you go to Form 1 thru 4 before studying for "o" level.

It was when they start to mess with the system, everything went down hill.  Jagan took out standard 5 & 6 and Burnham took out form 4.

The kids must have been brighter and the teachers more qualified. 

The average grade for Guyanese in English was 55%, the lowest in the caribbean.

In 1966 ,we moved from one village to the neighboring village ,I was in standard 4 midway ,at the new school was placed in Form 1 , the last form in the new school was Form 3.

@Django posted:

In 1965 ,we moved from one village to the neighboring village ,I was in standard 4 midway ,at the new school was placed in Form 1 , the last form in the new school was Form 3.

What age you graduated from  Primary school?   In the college of Preceptors examination, if you fail English, you failed the whole examination.  Five to ten percent of Indo_Guyanese used to pass English in those days.    

@Ramakant-P posted:

What age you graduated from  Primary school?   In the college of Preceptors examination, if you fail English, you failed the whole examination. 

Five to ten percent of Indo_Guyanese used to pass English in those days.    

15 yrs 2 mths , passed College of Preceptors  Certificate examination ,6 subjects could only afford to pay for 7 subjects  ,failed one subject by 2 marks.

@Django posted:

15 yrs 2 mths , attained Certificate College of Preceptors  ,6 subjects could only afford to pay for 7 subjects  ,failed one subject by 2 marks.

I did not write CP. But in my class who wrote GCE, I was in the top 4 with subjects passed. I think we were groomed starting the first day of high school in 1963 to prepare for GCE.

@Totaram posted:

Cheddi Jagan was the most principled leader Guyana ever produced.  None of the present crop comes close to him.  He wouldn't recognize the current PPP.  All that is left of his PPP is Freedom House and IndoGuyanese support,  the latter for obvious reasons.

More nonsense. The most petty and vindictive East Indian leader Guyana ever had. Always at war with some East Indian leader. So  sugar workers built him a three bedroom house that he and his wife lived in for a long time. That doesn't make him a great leader for East Indian people of Guyana.

@Prashad posted:

More nonsense. The most petty and vindictive East Indian leader Guyana ever had. Always at war with some East Indian leader. So  sugar workers built him a three bedroom house that he and his wife lived in for a long time. That doesn't make him a great leader for East Indian people of Guyana.

Where did I say he was a great leader for "East Indian" people? Don't make up things to fit your silly narrative.  Jagan never would have described himself as an East Indian leader.   He was my working class hero: principled and decent to the core. 

@Ramakant-P posted:

No! In pre 1964, you go to Form 1 thru 4 before studying for "o" level.

It was when they start to mess with the system, everything went down hill.  Jagan took out standard 5 & 6 and Burnham took out form 4.

The kids must have been brighter and the teachers more qualified. 

The average grade for Guyanese in English was 55%, the lowest in the caribbean.

I don't know where you got 55% but wonder what it is today.  

@Prashad posted:

More nonsense. The most petty and vindictive East Indian leader Guyana ever had. Always at war with some East Indian leader. So  sugar workers built him a three bedroom house that he and his wife lived in for a long time. That doesn't make him a great leader for East Indian people of Guyana.

Did someone hit you on the head with a big pan when you were doing dishes and cleaning toilets in the military? You seem to be suffering some kind of delusion.

@Totaram posted:

I don't know where you got 55% but wonder what it is today.  

When Burnham introduced the Caribbean examination , the caribbean board of education gave this assesment, Guyana  was the lowest in the Caribbean.  I didn't make it up.  Before that, It was 5% pass in English for GCE "O" level.   All our teachers were departing for Greener pastures because of the low pay check.

Where were you living?

When I told you guys that Indians were weak in English and social science, and blacks were weak in Maths and General Science, you all called me a racist.

I believe Caribj can confirm this.

@Ramakant-P posted:

When Burnham introduced the Caribbean examination , the caribbean board of education gave this assesment, Guyana  was the lowest in the Caribbean.  I didn't make it up.  Before that, It was 5% pass in English for GCE "O" level.   All our teachers were departing for Greener pastures because of the low pay check.

Where were you living?

When I told you guys that Indians were weak in English and social science, and blacks were weak in Maths and General Science, you all called me a racist.

 

I believe Caribj can confirm this.

Bai, I passed GCE English and Math twice while people were struggling to pass English once.

@Former Member posted:

Bai, I passed GCE English and Math twice while people were struggling to pass English once.

SO you are one of the 5%.  Congratulations!