Mathematics continues to be a sore subject for Guyanese students writing the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate examinations.
Only 34% of students who wrote the Mathematics examinations managed to gain Grade 1 to 3 passes.
The Ministry of Education released the CXC results today, and according to the Chief Education Officer, Saddam Hussein, while there were some improvements in some subject areas, Mathematics continues to have a low pass rate.
“English A remained constant at 70%, English “B” recorded a 63% pass rate, Mathematics remain constant at 34%. Additional Mathematics which is a CSEC subject has an improved from 53% to 60% in 2023,” Hussain announced.
Additionally, at the CSEC level, there has been a decline in Biology passes from 82% to 72%, Human and Social Biology from 73% to 63%, Physical Education and sports from 98% to 88% and Portuguese from 76% to 62%. Some Science and Business subjects also recorded a decline in the pass rate while the results for other remain largely unchanged.
All the Technical and Vocational subjects recorded a pass rate of over 65% this year.
It was noted that outstanding performances were recorded in 14 subject areas. The top student this year achieved 23 Grade One passes and 4 Grade two passes. He is from the Anna Regina Multilateral School.
As it relates to the CAPE subjects, there were marginal increases in a number of subject areas.
Accounting, Mathematics, and Economics saw good performances, while Geography, Law, Building and Mechanical Engineering saw stable performances with science subjects recording a decline in the pass rate.
“Overall, we had a slight dip in our overall pass rate at CAPE which this year is 90.85%, so there has been a dip of about 2% from 2022,” Hussain noted.
The Education Ministry intends to look at the weak subject areas, with a plan to see improved results.
“The Ministry will begin its machinery on Monday to begin the process of putting forward all necessary actions to correct and rectify those subjects where there has been a decline. We will ask our supervision arm that all issues are identified and then we will ask our training arm at NCERD to ensure that the necessary help are provided,” Mr. Hussain noted.
This year’s CSEC Mathematics examinations were stained by a leakage that caused CXC to only allow the marking of the multiple choice paper and combine that score with the school based assessment submitted by the students.
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