Controversy has erupted here and in other parts of the Caribbean over what has been described as the “shockingly low” and flawed grades awarded by CXC in this year’s CSEC and CAPE examinations.
In light of the COVID-19 pandemic this year, CXC had controversially decided to modify rather than postpone or cancel its examinations.
The Council had announced earlier this year that Paper II, the essay paper, would be discarded in favour of an increased weighting for Paper I and the School-Based Assessment/Internal Assessment. While they failed to reveal this new weighting for each element they asked stakeholders to trust that everything would be fine.