The date for the Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (S.E.A.) has been of­fi­cial­ly con­firmed and an­nounced, and Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter An­tho­ny Gar­cia says this year will see the largest num­ber of stu­dents writ­ing the ex­am in re­cent years.

The ed­u­ca­tion min­is­ter, who made the an­nounce­ment this morn­ing, says this year’s ex­am will fo­cus on Cre­ative Writ­ing, Crit­i­cal Think­ing and Prob­lem Solv­ing Skills.

“The S.E.A. Ex­am for 2020 will be held on 2 April 2020,” the min­is­ter stat­ed. “This ex­am will be writ­ten by 19,363 stu­dents. This num­ber is the largest num­ber of stu­dents who will be writ­ing the ex­am over the past ten years or so.”

Min­is­ter Gar­cia al­so con­firmed that some 9,772 male stu­dents will be writ­ing S.E.A. this year; while the num­ber of fe­male stu­dents will be 9,551.