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Sunday, July 20, 2025

SEPoS celebrates CSEC success

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South East Port-of-Spain Sec­ondary (SE­PoS), lo­cat­ed in the in­ner city crime hot spot of Nel­son Street, is cel­e­brat­ing the re­sults of the Caribbean Sec­ondary Ed­u­ca­tion Cer­tifi­cate (CSEC) with top per­form­ing schools in Port-of-Spain, cen­tral and east Trinidad.

"Pret­ty pleased" was how dean Roger Mar­tin de­scribed the school's re­sults.

"We are now es­tab­lish­ing the ho­n­our roll, the top per­form­ing stu­dents who got a num­ber of ones, and it looks good," Mar­tin told the T&T Guardian yes­ter­day.

He said they were un­able to di­vulge fur­ther de­tails since they were still tab­u­lat­ing the re­sults but added that South East Port-of-Spain Sec­ondary usu­al­ly per­forms well every year.

Fr Gre­go­ry Au­gus­tine, prin­ci­pal of Fa­ti­ma Col­lege, was al­so pleased with how his stu­dents fared in the CSEC and Caribbean Ad­vanced Pro­fi­cien­cy Ex­am (CAPE).

"We did very well. We got 100 per cent pass­es in both CAPE and CSEC. I am gen­er­al­ly pleased," Au­gus­tine said.

Au­gus­tine said un­der 200 stu­dents at Fa­ti­ma Col­lege wrote CAPE and around 140 wrote CSEC.

He said the school got 13 schol­ar­ships last year and he was hop­ing for "a lit­tle im­prove­ment" this year, mod­est­ly in­di­cat­ing he was ex­pect­ing the num­ber to in­crease.

In the east, Lak­sh­mi Girls Hin­du Col­lege prin­ci­pal, So­nia Ma­hase-Per­sad, and her teach­ers were al­so cel­e­brat­ing.

Ma­hase-Per­sad said the school had bet­ter grades this year and based on the num­bers of ones stu­dents got, she was ex­pect­ing a record num­ber of schol­ar­ships this year. They got 29 schol­ar­ships last year.

"We have im­proved this year. Nine­ty-nine per cent of the 142 stu­dents who wrote the CSEC and all the 85 who wrote CAPE got full cer­tifi­cates.

"This was our best year in CAPE. We have al­so seen an in­crease in the num­ber of stu­dents get­ting ones across the board," she said.

Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege (Ch­agua­nas) prin­ci­pal, Gary Ribeiro, was al­so cel­e­brat­ing.

"We did well, as Pre­sen­ta­tion nor­mal­ly does. Nine­ty-nine per cent of the 80 stu­dents who wrote the CSEC got five and more pass­es. Stu­dents did very good in the sci­ences. Nine­ty-eight per cent of the 75 stu­dents who wrote CAPE got full pass­es."

Ribeiro said he was ex­pect­ing a "hap­py schol­ar­ship this year" be­cause of the out­stand­ing per­for­mance of some stu­dents who got straight dis­tinc­tions.

Preysal High, Cou­va, said yes­ter­day they were un­able to ac­cess the re­sults from the school's sys­tem be­cause it was down and could not give in­for­ma­tion.

Oth­er schools said no of­fi­cial was present to give in­for­ma­tion. Some said they were still tab­u­lat­ing the re­sults and oth­ers pre­ferred to wait un­til lat­er in the week.

The Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion's Com­mu­ni­ca­tions De­part­ment said it was not au­tho­rised to make the re­sults pub­lic yes­ter­day and Min­is­ter An­tho­ny Gar­cia could not be reached.


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