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CSEC scheduled for July 13th

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Education Minister, Anthony Garcia, announces the date of this year’s CSEC exams in July, at the Ministry’s offices, this morning, Friday 29 May 2020.

Education Minister, Anthony Garcia, announces the date of this year’s CSEC exams in July, at the Ministry’s offices, this morning, Friday 29 May 2020.

Sto­ry by CARISA LEE

 

The Caribbean Sec­ondary Ed­u­ca­tion Cer­tifi­cate (CSEC) ex­am­i­na­tions will be­gin on Ju­ly 13th.

The an­nounce­ment was made by Min­is­ter of Ed­u­ca­tion, An­tho­ny Gar­cia, dur­ing a press con­fer­ence on Fri­day, at the Min­istry's head of­fice.

Ac­cord­ing to Min­is­ter Gar­cia, the ex­am would con­sist of a "Pa­per One" which is mul­ti­ple choice, and a "Pa­per Two" for sub­jects with­out a school-based as­sess­ment (SBA) com­po­nent. These sub­jects in­clude Mod­ern Lan­guages and Hu­man & So­cial Bi­ol­o­gy.

The SBA for Vi­su­al Arts would be re­placed with a writ­ten jour­nal, while Sport or Phys­i­cal Ed­u­ca­tion will write on plans for a tour­na­ment.

The Min­is­ter of Ed­u­ca­tion al­so said the dead­line for SBA sub­mis­sion has been ex­tend­ed to June 30.

Gar­cia said the min­istry has been li­ais­ing with prin­ci­pals and teach­ers to as­sist stu­dents at schools, if nec­es­sary, with the com­ple­tion of SBAs for oth­er sub­jects and that will be from June 7th to June 30th.

“Teach­ers would be al­lowed to use the school's fa­cil­i­ties to as­sist stu­dents with prepar­ing SBAs,” the min­is­ter ex­plained, “how­ev­er, these groups must be less than five per­sons.”

From June 1st, the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion will be re­ceiv­ing PPE and san­i­ta­tion prod­ucts for sec­ondary schools. Gar­cia said the rel­e­vant san­i­ta­tion and in­fra­struc­tur­al work nec­es­sary would be done be­fore the com­mence­ment of the ex­ams and would con­tin­ue through­out it.

Min­is­ter Gar­cia dis­missed a timetable cir­cu­lat­ing on so­cial me­dia as false and con­tain­ing er­rors. He said the cor­rect timetable would be sent out soon. He main­tained that CSEC is a re­gion­al ex­am­i­na­tion and the de­ci­sion for the ex­am to be held in Ju­ly was not made by T&T alone.

Ja­maica's Min­is­ter of Ed­u­ca­tion has said that coun­try will not be able to hold the CSEC and CAPE in Ju­ly.

Min­is­ter Gar­cia al­so an­nounced that schools would be re­opened on Sep­tem­ber 1st.

 


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