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| Hon. Livingston Herbert Jr. Minister of Education in the Nevis Island Administration. |
CHARLESTOWN NEVIS (September 8, 2005) -- Charlestown Secondary School (CSS) has maintained its top position in the 2005 regional examinations and Mr. Livingston Herbert Junior. Minister of Education in the Nevis Island Administration (NIA), has attributed this achievement to the teachers who he said repeatedly went beyond the call of duty.
According to the Minister, 51 students from CSS wrote the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations, and attained an 86 percent pass rate which was the highest in the Federation. In 2004 they recorded a 78 percent pass rate with 71 students, in 2003 they attained an 81 percent pass rate with 65 students, in 2002 they attained a 90 percent pass rate with 46 students and in 2001 they attained a 79 percent pass rate with 52 students.
Mr. Herbert said CSS had registered 306 subject entries at the General Proficiency Level and 42 at the Technical Proficiency Level. There were 348 subject entries with 301 passes.
The Education Minister pointed to outstanding individual passes from Marcy R. Jagdeo and Coletia Jeffers wrote 11 subjects and received 9 and 5 distinctions respectively; Shevonne S. Lewis sat 10 subjects and received seven distinctions; Karishna S. Tross, Diana J. Claxton and Kishma Evelyn sat nine subjects and received 7, 6 and 5 distinctions respectively.
Mr. Herbert noted that Building Technology Construction, Electricity Electronics Technology, English B, Integrates Science, Office Procedures, Principles of Business, Social Studies, Spanish and Typewriting received 100 percent passes while Biology, English A, French and Principles of Accounts followed closely with percentage passes ranging from 90-93 percent.
However, at the Gingerland Secondary School, one of the two Government-owned secondary schools on Nevis they attained a 71 percent pass rate in the CSEC exams. Mr Herbert said 86 students sat the CSEC examinations and there were 344 subject entries at the General Proficiency Level, 20 at the Technical Proficiency level and 33 at the Basic Proficiency Level. There were a total of 364 subject entries with 259 passes.
Building Technology, Construction, Clothing and Textiles, English B, French and Social Studies received 100 percent passes while Integrated Science and Food and Nutrition received a 96 and 92 percent pass rate respectively.
The students who received outstanding individual passes were Bethis Pogson who sat 10 subjects and received one distinction; Kacey Jeffers and Rhosyll Jeffers sat nine subjects and each received six distinctions; Zadia Browne, Helen Eddo and Jason France each sat eight subjects and attained 6 and 1 distinctions respectively.
Regarding the Caribbean Advance Proficiency Examination (CAPE), Mr Herbert said that a total of 66 students wrote the exams in 251 subject areas and attained an 86.85 percentage pass rate. They had 218 passes.
Thirty nine students were registered for Unit 1 and 27 were registered for Unit 2. Of the 251 subject entries, 190 were done in Unit 1 with 167 passes (88 percent) while there were 61 subject entries under Unit 2 with 51 passes (84 percent).
For the CAPE, outstanding individual passes were recorded from Rhenese Herbert who wrote six subjects and received three distinctions; Shernelle Lewis sat four subjects and received 1 distinction.
At the privately owned Lyn Jeffers Secondary School, six students wrote the General Certificate of Education (GCE) examinations in 32 subject entries and attained a 69 percent pass rate with 22 passes. The school attained 14 As, 8 Bs and 1 C. There was a100 percent pass in English Language.
Outstanding individual passes were obtained by Joy M. Napier, Kyndre M. Liburd and Michelle V. Lawrence sat six subjects and attained 6, 4 and 2 distinctions respectively while Asha R. Allen-Silversiein sat four subjects and attained two distinctions.
