More than 1000 sitting CSEC/CAPE in Reg-6 amidst pandemic
SOCIAL DISTANCING: Students in a classroom in Region 6 Berbice
Chairman of Region 6 David Armogan on Wednesday in an interview with BIG Smith News Watch has assured that all the necessary protocols are in place to facilitate students who will be sitting the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate and Caribbean Advanced Proficiency examinations which commenced earlier this week.
The examinations which are traditionally written between June and July were pushed back as the Ministries of Public Health and Education monitored the coronavirus pandemic and accordance with the regional rescheduling.
One Thousand one hundred students are registered to sit the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examination while another forty-three have registered for the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE).
Students who wrote foreign languages began sitting their examinations last Monday while the other officially began their examinations on Wednesday with Geography being first on the table. CAPE will conclude on July 31 while CSEC will run through August 4, 2020.
As it relates to the health safety of the students and teachers entering the teaching environment during this pandemic, social distancing remains paramount, according to Armogan.
Before entering the school compounds, the students are required to wash their hands with the use of sinks and standpipes which were erected for that purpose. Once inside the building, they are placed to sit six feet apart in accordance with the social distancing guidelines which were directed by the Ministry of Public Health and they will be required to wear a mask during their time in the school environs.
Approximately fifteen students are allowed in a classroom according to the Regional Chairman. This will result in man classrooms being occupied but in cases where mathematics and English literature students have to sit their examination, there will be a need for even more classroom usage as all students are required to sit those subjects.
The chairman, further noted that students who have been taking private classes for CSEC wrote English paper 3 on Tuesday which is a substitute for School-Based Assessments (SBA’s). They are excluded from public school students who will be writing Mathematics and English Paper One on July 27th and 28th since they would have already completed their SBA’s during the previous school terms.
