Over 15,500 students are in the final stages of preparing to sit this year’s National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) exams next week. Longstanding Grade Six teacher and founder of Revon’s Academy, Ms. Revon Boyle, who has been assessing the examinations while looking at important trends and reoccurring topics, is urging the students to pay keen attention to topics that came in both the first and second Mock Exams.
In an interview, which will air this Sunday on SOURCES, Ms. Boyle of Revon’s Academy said the Mock Exams offer insight into many of the topics that are likely to appear in the exams set for Wednesday, April 29 and Thursday, April 30.
Citing an example, she pointed out that in the Science mock exams, body systems, the functions of the teeth, and photosynthesis were some of the reoccurring topics.
“So, for Science we find that food webs have been trending. You know the children need to have a very good understanding of the relationship amongst the animals in a food web – whether it is a predator and prey relationship whereby the lizard is the main predator of the spider and the spider might be the main prey of the lizard. You answer base on the information presented. Living things, that’s a staple, that’s a staple in Science, so questions on vertebrates and invertebrates, and then you have the plant kingdom, and they have been testing them heavily recently on germination,” Miss Ravon said.
Similarly, “Teacher Revon” said in Mathematics, the topics of pattern and sequence, profit and loss, measurements, conversion and time, shapes, angles and symmetry have been reoccurring.
She believes students should pay attention to those topics in addition to all other topics that appeared in the mock exams, and the school’s curriculum.
“Check back calculations because what we have found is that many times children know, they understand the concept, and the error is made in calculation. So, sometimes they leave out symbols. For example, they might say a jar contains 1 liter of milk, James drank quarter of the liter of milk from the jar, express the amount of milk remaining in milliliters or liters. Sometimes they do the calculation; they convert everything and forget that last bit where the answer has to be expressed in a certain unit,” Miss Ravon explained.
Ms. Boyle said when approaching the exam, students must read the questions carefully before answering them.
“We have taught our children to underline or circle the key words so that you don’t miss anything when you are answering the questions. I would have found that some children tend to be verbose, they go on and on and around without getting to the point. Avoid those very wordy answers and at the same time, you have to strike a balance because you don’t want to be vague either. Keep it short but ensure that you have certain words that are related to the question you are expected to bring out,” she explained.
Sofia Boyle – a student of Revon’s Academy– said she has been putting in hours, and studying diligently with the hope of acquiring her dream school.
“And I have also been working the Grade Six past papers and even the Grade Five Mock Exams, and also the Mock Exams 1 and 2. I have been getting up early so that I can push in as much work I can and I have been focusing a lot lately in class because I know that this is the final lap and I cannot mess this up. So, when I go in the exam I have no regrets, and when I am finished writing the exams, I can say both my parents and I have done best,” Boyle said.
Another student, Cadeehia Williams, who is in Grade Five and writing the exam ahead of time – said she has been revising and keeping prayerful.
“I have been doing past papers from 2000 to 2025 along with mock exam papers from 2019. I am focusing heavily on the topics that came in the mock exams both papers 1 and 2 and I am trusting God to remind me of everything I have studied and allow me to study much more to do exceedingly and abundantly well,” Williams said.
Students will first face English Papers 1 and 2 on Wednesday April 29 followed by Science Papers 1 and 2.
On Thursday, they will then sit the Mathematics and Social Studies Papers 1 and 2 exams.
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