Queen’s College student, Jayden Adrian, secured 21 Grade Ones and 6 Grade Twos to emerge as Guyana’s top performing student at this year’s Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations.
The QC boy told reporters this afternoon that he is extremely pleased with his performance.
“Right now I am feeling very fulfilled because this is all that I have been working for the past two years, and I couldn’t have settled for anything less given all the hard work I put in,” the scholar said.
Adrian said he challenged himself to write a total of 27 subjects to increase his chances of securing a scholarship to study abroad. He explained that he has an interest in Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics.
“The main reason I did 27 subjects was to achieve a scholarship from government so I can study abroad because I want to be given the best services. I know Guyana has the best but also overseas. And secondly, I am going to a university of there, and I want to acquaint myself with the schedule and the level of work that you would expect at that level,” he explained.
Adrian was among the 12,685 students who wrote the exams this year.
Guyana secured an overall pass rate of 66.76%, with the Chief Education Officer, Saddam Hussain, noting that the country’s pass rate for CSEC remained constant this year when compared to 2024.
Hussain explained that students wrote a total of 35 subjects, and of that number, there were improvements in 15 subjects while the performance in five subjects remained relatively stable.
The country recorded a 71.2% pass rate in English A, which reflects an increase from 68.96% in 2024, and in Mathematics the country recorded a 5% increase in the pass rate, with 32% of the children gaining Grade 1 to 3 passes in the subject compared to 27% in 2024.
“In 2024, our Math pass rate was 27%. I am please to inform you than in 2025 our Math pass rate is now 32%. This is now an increase of 5% which is significant in any aspect of education gained in a single year, extremely, extremely good,” the Chief Education Officer said.
Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand said the improvements recorded are as a result of the interventions made by the Government.
Singling out Mathematics, Minister Manickchand said ahead of a roll out of a regional intervention by the Caribbean Examination Council (CXC), Guyana initiated a series of programmes aimed at improving the country’s performance at Mathematics.
“And this was the intervention – we gave to every single child a scientific calculator in fourth and fifth form, we gave to every single child geometry set, we gave text books, past papers, past papers organized by topics, lessons for free on the Learning Channel on each topic, Quiz Me here you can go in and answer questions and get your responses right away. And then we placed monitors in 70 of our schools, where the monitors were supposed to see where they were effective, make sure teachers were finishing the syllabus and that children were understanding what was being taught,” the Education Minister explained.
Minister Manickchand also said the Education Ministry has seen an increase in performance in 67% of the schools across the country.
Meanwhile, in the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE), the country recorded a slight decline in the pass rate.
The country recorded a pass rate of 91.1% this year, when compared 92.57% in 2024.
A total of 650 students wrote the CAPE exams covering 33 subjects, and a total of 60 units.
Queen’s College student, Arthur Roberts topped the country for CAPE, securing a total of 9 Grade Ones, and 4 Grade Twos. He told reporters that he has God, family and teachers to thank for his remarkable performance.
“My motivation mainly came from the community I had around me. My teachers, my mother, father, family members, colleagues in school and even members of the different association related to Queen’s College…they not only push me or guide me but carried me to this point,” he said.
Roberts has an interest in the Sciences. He said studying was rigorous, but he was up to the task.
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