Queens College and the Anna Regina Secondary School have once again produced several of the country’s top performing students at this year’s Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate examinations.
One of the top students from Queen’s College wrote 29 subjects, gaining passes in all of them, with 23 Grade ones and Six twos.
In delivering the results today, Education Minister Priya Manickchand noted that more than 225 students from across the country have secured Grade One passes in more than eight subject areas, while 33 students secured 14 or more Grade One passes.
Fifteen students from the Anna Regina Secondary bagged more than Eight grade ones, while two students from the Abrham Zuil Secondary on the Essequibo Coast also received more than 8 grade one passes.
Here in Georgetown, 59 students from Queens College, 23 from The Bishops High, 8 from Saints Stanislaus, 18 from St. Roses, 7 from St. Joseph’s and two from Brickdam Secondary secured eight or more grade one passes.
In Region 6, the New Amsterdam Secondary school will be celebrating three students with more than 8 grade one pases, while Berbice High School has 7. Three students from JC Chandisigh also secured more than 8 ones and five students from the Skeldon Line path Secondary.
From Anna Regina Secondary Radranauth Sankar secured 23 grade ones and 1 grade two, while Randhir Toney Secured 19 grade ones and 7 grade twos.
Vanisha Lall from the same school secured 18 grade ones, 8 grade twos and 3 grade threes. Adaeze Butters, also from Anna Regina Secondary secured 14 grade ones, 3 grade twos one grade three and one grade four, while Bomeka Singh Secured 16 grade ones and 5 grade twos.
Givasha Harpaul from Anna Regina Secondary secured 15 grade ones and two grade twos, while Pradesh Dwarka secured 24 grade ones and 3 grade twos.
“I want to remind you that we are unable at this point to say in Guyana who is the top students. There is still a review process that CXC is engaging in so someone could have 11 ones and other person can have 10 ones and by the time the review finishes you have two people with the 11 ones,” Manickchand noted.
Meanwhile, Dave Chowtie of Queens College secured 23 grade ones and six grade twos, while Anaaya Jain secured 17 grade ones and 6 grade twos and 1 grade 3, Simran Edmond secured 14 grade ones, six grade twos and one grade 3. Garbriella Persaud also if Queen College secured 14 grade ones, six grade twos and one grade 3 and Toreka Persaud 15 grade ones and two grade twos.
Several Students from the Bishops High, Sarswati Vidya Niketan I.S.A Islamic School, New Amsterdam Secondary, Berbice High School, J.C Chandisingh also gained more than 14 grade ones.
‘This is a country that will cater for you, we are going to look after you here or wherever you are and you are starting to see that, you have a corresponding responsibility, you are our new leaders, you are going to be the new teachers, doctors and CEO, you are who will going to take this country forward, you have to protect her from outside forces and internal forces who strive only on confusion,” the Minister urged the top students.
While there was a decline in the pass rate in a number of subject areas, the Minister said she is confident of a turnaround next year.
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