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Thursday, July 24, 2025

Girls top SEA results again

High prais­es for Tim from Cab­i­net col­leagues

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20120705

Girls have done it again t­his year. Re­bec­ca-Ann Jat­tan, Shemi­ah Grant, Nishtha Mo­han and Vic­to­ria Ma­jaraj have topped the Sec­ondary As­sess­ment Ex­am­i­na­tion (SEA) re­sults. Jat­tan at­tend­ed Canaan Pres­by­ter­ian; Shemi­ah, Atwell's Ed­u­ca­tion­al Cen­tre; Mo­han, Freeport Pres­by­ter­ian and Ma­haraj, Av­o­cat Vedic. Last year, Gabrielle Mo­han and Adi­lah Adams, who both at­tend­ed Ch­agua­nas Gov­ern­ment, placed among the top three stu­dents in the SEA ex­am­i­na­tion. The SEA re­sults have brought high prais­es for Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Tim Gopeesingh from his col­leagues at yes­ter­day's Cab­i­net meet­ing for what they said was a marked im­prove­ment in the aca­d­e­m­ic per­for­mance of pri­ma­ry schools across the coun­try. Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Min­is­ter Ja­mal Mo­hammed, at yes­ter­day's post-Cab­i­net me­dia brief­ing,said the mood was up­beat in Cab­i­net over the SEA re­sults and said Dr Gopeesingh was salut­ed for his con­tri­bu­tion. Gopeesingh, ad­dress­ing the me­dia, said: "More and more pri­ma­ry schools are do­ing bet­ter and bet­ter.

This is a good sign. "There is a pos­i­tive trend in terms of the move­ment of our ed­u­ca­tion sys­tem. "The per­for­mance of the stu­dents is some­thing that is giv­ing us a lot of com­fort now." Gopeesingh said SEA re­sults have con­tin­ued to im­prove over the last three years. He said 19,835 stu­dents wrote the SEA this year and 860 stu­dents scored above 90 per cent. "This is an im­prove­ment from 2011 when 786 scored above 90 per cent," he added. Fur­ther, he said, 10,195 stu­dents scored above 60 per cent com­pared to 9,826 in 2011 and 12,723 scored above 50 per cent, com­pared to 12,216 in 2011. "Clear­ly, there has been sig­nif­i­cant im­prove­ment in the re­sults over the last year," he added. Gopeesingh al­so not­ed a low­er per­cent­age scored be­low 30 per cent. "This year, 1,680 stu­dents scored be­low 30 per cent com­pared to 1,800 in 2011," he added, Gopeesingh said the av­er­age scores of stu­dents in math­e­mat­ics and cre­ative writ­ing have in­creased.

The num­ber of stu­dents scor­ing above av­er­age al­so has im­proved, he said. He added: "In 2012, 54 per cent scored above the mean in cre­ative writ­ing as com­pared to 48 per cent in 2011." Less stu­dents were get­ting un­der 50 per cent, Gopeesingh added. Told by the me­dia the im­prove­ment was seen most­ly in the de­nom­i­na­tion­al schools and that the Gov­ern­ment schools did not do so well, Gopeesingh said he saw im­prove­ment across the board. He not­ed Atwell's Pri­vate School had six stu­dents in the first 200. Some 81 schools had places in the first 200, com­pared to 41 schools in the first 150 last year. Gopeesingh said those schools were spread across the coun­try and in­clud­ed rur­al schools. Ac­cord­ing to the SEA re­sults, Mus­lim schools copped a large piece of the SEA pie, with Hin­du and Pres­by­ter­ian schools fol­low­ing close­ly be­hind.

The First 200

How they placed in the first 200:

• San Fer­nan­do Mus­lim TML 19

• San Fer­nan­do Mus­lim AS­JA 13

• Ari­ma Girls' Gov­ern­ment 4

• Atwell's Ed­u­ca­tion­al Cen­tre 7

• Canaan Pres­by­ter­ian 3

• Ch­agua­nas Gov­ern­ment 4

• Curepe Pres­by­ter­ian 4

• Ex­change Pres­by­ter­ian 11

• El Do­ra­do Hin­du South 3

• Freeport Hin­du 4

• Grant Memo­r­i­al Pres­by­ter­ian 6

• Maria Regi­na 4

• Mon­trose Gov­ern­ment 5

• Mon­trose Vedic 3

• Princes Town As­ja 3

• Princes Town Pres­by­ter­ian 6

• Robert Vil­lage Hin­du 4

• Sa­cred Heart Girls RC 3

• San Fer­nan­do Girls Gov­ern­ment 3

• San Fran­cique Hin­du 3

• St Joseph Mus­lim TML 6

• St Pe­ters Pri­vate Pri­ma­ry 5

• St Xavier's Pri­vate 3

• War­renville Is­lam­ic TIA 3

The rest of the schools had ei­ther two or one pupil in the first 200, Gopeesingh said.


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