A summary of the results of the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) has been sent by the Caribbean Examinations Council to the Ministry of Education and students who wrote it will be able to receive the results online by this evening. Education Minister Dr Tim Gopeesingh said so yesterday at the post-Cabinet media briefing. Results of the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examination also will be provided to the ministry tomorrow and students will be able to get them online by Monday, Gopeesingh said.
He said there were 26,549 subject entries in 24 subject areas in Unit One in the CAPE examination which was written by Lower Six students. Gopeesingh said there was an increase in the number of students writing the examination which augered well for T&T’s future. He said close to 20 per cent of the country’s annual expenditure went into education and it had been paying off.
He said 65 per cent of the students who wrote unit one got grades from one to three and 93 per cent obtained grades between one and five.
The number writing the examination increased by 678. He said the results also showed improved academic performance in unit two, written by Upper Six students this year. There was an increase in the number of students writing the examination by 860, a 7.1 per cent increase over 2012. He said over 13,000 students wrote the examination. Over 64 per cent got between grades one to three in unit two and 92.3 per cent got between grades one to five in particular subject areas. Gopeesingh said students have been making quantum leaps in the education sector.