Minister of Education Priya Manickchand yesterday announced that the pupils writing the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) on May 3rd and 4th will be given an additional 10 minutes for reading.
All the exams will be for an hour and 10 minutes as the ministry facilitates the students who were affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Manickchand highlighted in a video that the pupils sitting the NGSA this year were away from school from grade 3 during the COVID-19 lockdown and as a result it might be a bit difficult for them. However measures were put in place to prepare the students for the examination. The examination papers will also be translated for Spanish-speaking students.
A Ministry of Education press release meanwhile stated that the number of examination centres has increased to 517. This means pupils will no longer have to travel long distances to complete their examinations.
The Ministry of Education has also made investments in support of learners to prepare them for the upcoming examinations.
Some of these were the distribution of textbooks to all primary school pupils, broadcasting curriculum centred programmes on the Guyana Learning Channel and YouTube platforms, development of the Quiz Me platform and making NGSA past papers available on the Ministry’s website.
The results from the 2023 sitting of the National Grade Six Assessment are due by July 17, 2023.
