The 2016 National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) examinations will be written on April 27 and April 28, a month after the traditional time for the annual sitting.
The NGSA has in the past been written on the Monday and Tuesday after school closes for the Easter holidays. The new term, which will begin on January 3, 2015 will last for 11 weeks, therefore it was expected that school would officially be closed on March 18, 2016 and the examination written on March 21 and 22.
However, Minister of Communities Ronald Bulkan has announced that March 18 will be the date on which the long awaited local government elections will be held. Schools are normally used as polling sites yet since Bulkan made this announcement last month there has been no official word from the Ministry