Kevon Felmine

With their hands stretched out as if they were about to take off, pupils of the Princes Town Methodist Pri­ma­ry School ran out their class­rooms yes­ter­day, over­joyed at com­plet­ing their Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA)."Re­lieved, free­dom, hap­py," were some of the emo­tions pupils in south Trinidad ex­pressed yes­ter­day as they were em­braced by their par­ents.Not even the prob­lems many of them ad­mit­ted fac­ing on the gram­mar com­po­nent of the ex­am­i­na­tions could de­ter their joy.

Eli­jah Strong, a US cit­i­zen, who on­ly start­ed school at the Princes Town school last year, said:"It was easy but the com­pre­hen­sion at the end got dif­fi­cult. The way they con­struct­ed the ques­tions, that was pret­ty much it. I am not so good with maths but they made the test eas­i­er for me be­cause of all the mock tests be­fore."His class­mate, Meiku Reid, said he had mi­nor dif­fi­cul­ties in sec­tion three in the math­e­mat­ics but, he said, the com­pre­hen­sion part was more dif­fi­cult.