Permanent Secretary (PS) in the Ministry of Education, Chandler Hyacinth has confirmed that the ministry has in its possession the 2020 Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) Examinations but the ministry is requesting reviews of the results and accordingly, they have delayed releasing it.
She explained that the CXC Examinations results were released last week, and a number of concerns have been raised about the results which have caused Dominica to delay their release.
“The Ministry of Education, Human Resource Planning, Vocational Training, and Excellence can confirm that we have received preliminary results from CXC coming from the 2020 CSEC, CAPE CCSLC Exams,” she said. “We have received concerns re the results from principals, teachers, students, they are all voicing their concerns, some are not satisfied with the results, especially where we have things like ungraded and absent in the results.”
According to her, the Ministry of Education is raising their own concerns with CXC.
“We have specific cases in individual schools; in one school, we found that physical education the students were given, their profile grades read mostly A and F, showing that all the students have failed their SBA’s, in another school, we have a particular subject where none of the students obtained a grade,” she explained…“So we are raising these queries and requesting reviews from CXC, they are cooperating with us and they are submitting revised broadsheets as we make the queries.”
All queries to CXC according to their rules must be raised by October 23rd and warned students that they must have a receipt from the examination.
“While we are requesting reviews on a national level, individuals can query their results. There is a date by which all queries should be raised, October 23rd. There are also provisions for individuals to raise reviews or results which show ungraded or absent,” she stated.
The Education Official said that at this time, the Ministry of Education is unable to make official statements on the results until the queries and reviews that are being raised with CXC, have been given some attention.
Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada, Jamaica, Antigua & Barbuda, Guyana, and St Lucia have also raised concerns over the 2020 CXC results and believe that it should be reviewed.