Ex­cite­ment and ela­tion were some of the emo­tions sec­ondary school stu­dents ex­pe­ri­enced, as they re­ceived their Caribbean Ad­vanced Pro­fi­cien­cy Ex­am­i­na­tion (CAPE) re­sults on Thurs­day. As many of them would be mov­ing on to uni­ver­si­ty to fur­ther their stud­ies, they felt re­lieved as their hard work paid off. Al­though a com­plete analy­sis is still to be made, sec­ondary schools in south Trinidad gen­er­al­ly ob­tained ex­cel­lent re­sults.

Prospec­tive law stu­dent Amthan Singh of AS­JA Boys' Col­lege said he was re­lieved and sat­is­fied with the re­sults he re­ceived. He is look­ing for­ward to the next chap­ter in his life. Sim­i­lar­ly, Ja­nine Boodram, of Na­pari­ma Girls' High School said she was very ex­cit­ed and will be pur­su­ing med­i­c­i­nal chem­istry in Lon­don. In an in­ter­view at Na­pari­ma Girls', prin­ci­pal Car­olyn Go­sine said she was elat­ed at the re­sults. "We have got­ten 100 per cent pass­es in the cer­tifi­cates. I am ex­cit­ed, re­al­ly hap­py to see the ex­pres­sion on the chil­dren's faces."

AS­JA Girls' Col­lege, San Fer­nan­do, act­ing prin­ci­pal Cindy Khan al­so rev­elled in the suc­cess of her stu­dents. "This year we had an ex­cep­tion­al per­for­mance, the ma­jor­i­ty of our stu­dents re­ceived ones, and a num­ber of them gained dis­tinc­tions. Well, as usu­al, it is re­al­ly the ef­fort of the teach­ers. Our stu­dents are ex­treme­ly dis­ci­plined and fo­cused on their work, and of course, they have the back­ing of their par­ents."

For sev­er­al schools, there has been an im­prove­ment in this year's re­sults, com­pared to last year's. Ac­cord­ing to Al­im Ali, prin­ci­pal of AS­JA Boys' Col­lege, San Fer­nan­do, there was an ame­lio­ra­tion of the re­sults this year. "I think I am sat­is­fied with the per­for­mances, the boys are qual­i­fy­ing them­selves to move on to the next lev­el many of them are mov­ing on to uni­ver­si­ty."

Mean­while, Ken­ny Mootoos­ingh, dean at Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege, San Fer­nan­do, an­tic­i­pates schol­ar­ships and even the Pres­i­dent's Medal. Sci­ence sub­jects in­clud­ing bi­ol­o­gy, chem­istry, physics and math­e­mat­ics re­ceived the high­est pass­es in many of the schools. Na­pari­ma Boys' Col­lege vice prin­ci­pal Dev Go­sine al­so not­ed that stu­dents who wrote com­mu­ni­ca­tion skills got ex­cel­lent re­sults in that area.

How­ev­er, he said caribbean stud­ies was a down­fall to oth­ers. "Based on the cal­i­bre of re­sults, I ex­pect a num­ber of schol­ar­ships," said Go­sine. At San Fer­nan­do Cen­tral Sec­ondary, of­fi­cials were un­able to dis­close any in­for­ma­tion re­gard­ing the school's per­for­mance since they were in the process of analysing the re­sults.