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Students at the Cayon High School (Photo by Erasmus Williams) |
BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, AUGUST 22ND 2005 - Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education, the Hon. Sam Condor says the results of the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examinations (CAPE) have arrived.
He told the Communications Unit in the Office of the Prime Minister that the Ministry was still awaiting the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) results written by students in the high schools as well as private individuals.
The Minister of Education said that following the arrival of the CXC results and the usual assessment, he will address the Federation on the performance of the St. Kitts and Nevis students in both the CAPE and CXC exams.
Eighty percent of candidates across the Caribbean have mastered the CAPE tests to achieve satisfactory grades of between one and five.
To pass, candidates must have attained proficiency levels of one to five.
The pass rate is even more significant against the background that significantly more students wrote more papers than last year across the region.
CAPE examiners announced last Monday that regionally, 13,651 students turned in entries this year, up 41.9 percent from 9,620 last year, and that subject unit entries moved up by 42 percent from 30,829 to 43,983.
The sixth form exam is administered by the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) in 19 English-speaking territories, namely: Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, British Virgin Islands, Cayman, Dominica, Guyana, Grenada, Jamaica, Montserrat, Saba, St. Maarten, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and The Grenades, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos and Suriname.
The most popular subjects in the regional exam this year, according to CXC, were: Caribbean Studies, with 4,481 regional candidates; Communication Studies, with 5,055 from the region; Management of Business Unit 1, with 2,614 regional; and Unit 2, with 1,240 regional.
Pure Mathematics Unit 1, with 2,325 regional candidates; Sociology Unit 1, with 2,065 from the region.
Few persons sat Applied Mathematics, Art and Design, Electrical and Electronic Technology, and Geometrical and Mechanical Engineering Drawing.
The latter two technical-vocational subjects will be offered as two-unit courses from 2006, the CXC stated.
This year, for the first time, candidates who receive satisfactory grades in special unit clusters will automatically be eligible for the award of an associate degree.
