Dear Editor,
I am a CSEC student of the class 2022 and exams begin in May/June. I have a lot of concerns in my school and also other schools. Let me start off by saying that the COVID-19 pandemic has caused a lot of fallback in our studies. We did not attend school for approximately two years. It was the last term in form 4 when we started back attending school but it was twice in a week. We were busy with School-based Assessments (SBAs) and we did not finish the syllabus for most subjects. For Geography we did not do anything on map reading, Chemistry we did not do inorganic and organic chemistry, Mathematics we did not do vectors, matrices, geometry and trigonometry. English ‘B’ we did not even start the prose book.
For Physics we did not finish circuits, magnets and radiation. Biology and human social biology we did not finish the topics variation, meiosis and mitosis. For agricultural science we did not finish animal production, farming technology etc where each of those topics has 14 units.
The students in the arts, business and other class did not finish the syllabus too.
The students of 2022 are left to suffer and there is limited time and not everyone is fully prepared for CSEC. I hereby call on the Caribbean Examinations Council to postpone the 2022 CSEC exams for at least until July, where we will be able to self-study, and finish the syllabus and come out with good grades and be the future work force of the Caribbean, rather than failing. We are hereby calling on the Caribbean Examinations Council to look into this matter and postpone the 2022 CSEC.
Yours faithfully,
(Name and address supplied)