Thu Mar 9, 2006
CXC results show improvement
The Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) is reporting improved performance in the January 2006 Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate Examinations.
The regional examination body announced that over 61 per cent of the entries achieved Grade one to three, a 12-per cent improvement when compared to the 49 per cent passes in 2005.
CXC says six of the 12 subjects showed improved performance while results declined in five subjects and one was unchanged.The best performance this year was in Spanish where 82 per cent of the entries achieved Grades one to three, compared with 71 per cent in 2005.
The largest percentage point improvement was in English Language with 68.7 per cent achieving Grades one to three in 2006, a major improvement from last year when 40 per cent passed.
Performance in Mathematics also improved significantly from 42 per cent in 2005 to 52.8 per cent this year.Biology and Physics recorded improved performance, 60 per cent and 66 per cent respectively this year, compared with 57 per cent in both subjects last year.
However, performance in Chemistry remained the same with 43 per cent of entries achieving Grades one to three.
There was a marginal decline in performance in Business subjects when compared with 2005.
This year, 48 per cent of the candidates achieved Grades one to three in Principles of Accounts compared to 49 per cent in 2005, while 73 per cent achieved Grades one to three in Principals of Business compared with 81 per cent in 2005.
Seventy-eight per cent achieved Grades one to three in Office Procedures compared with 80 per cent in 2005.
The council said this is the final sitting of Office Procedures since the subject has been replaced by Office Administration, which will be examined for the first time in the May/June 2006 sitting.Although the performance in Social Studies was among the best, it declined when compared with that of 2005.
Both candidate entries and subject entries increased this year with candidate entries increasing from 18,452 to 21,277 candidates while subject entries moved from 29,119 to 29,808 entries this year.
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does n e one kno wen cxc results 4 june will b out? im gettin really impatient!! some one at least say something so we'll kno. jeez.i want results now!!
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