While the region’s students have improved their performance in English at the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations this year, there have been noticeable declines in the pass rate in Mathematics and English B as well as a minimal decline in the overall pass rate.
This is according to a press release from the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC), which administers the examinations.
While Guyana’s overall pass rate was 63.39%, in the release CXC noted that 66% of subject entries at the May/June 2016 CSEC examinations achieved Grades I-III, the acceptable grades at CSEC and two percentage points below that of 2015 when 68% of entries achieved similar grades.