–Mae’s scores as best school
Mae’s Under-12 student Larissa Wiltshire is this year’s top performer at the National Grade Six Assessment after she gained 565 marks out of a possible 592 to pip 18,612 other students.
Larissa Wiltshire
Wiltshire secured a spot at the country’s premier secondary school, Queen’s College (QC).
Her school was the top performer in the country gaining some 20 spots in the country’s top 100.
Saying that he was “generally satisfied with the results,” Minister of Education Shaik Baksh yesterday revealed that this year there was an increase of almost 1,000 students who wrote the assessment, as compared to last year. These students would also have written the Grade Two and Grade Four assessments in 2005 and 2007 respectively and the results were based on their overall performance at the three assessments.
According to Baksh, “five per cent of each candidate’s Grade Two score in Mathematics and English and ten per cent of the Grade Four scores in the same subjects, were added to 85% of their scores in those subjects. The combined scores of those two subjects were then added to the scores gained in Science and Social Studies.” The minister said the highest possible score to gain in Mathematics was 150; English, 149; Social Studies, 143; and Science, 150.
The cut-off scores for only five schools were listed by the ministry and they are: QC, 542; Bishops’ High, 534; St Stanislaus College, 528; St Roses High, 519; and St Joseph High, 514.
According to the minister, schools are now classified as sixth-form and class A, B, C and D schools and the classification is based on the performance index over a three-year period at the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examination.
“So it means from year to year a school can move from one classification to the other depending on their performance at the CSEC examination,” Baksh said.
And instead of having a cut-off score for each school as in previous years, the minister said, there are now cut-off scores for a class of schools in a geographic location.
“That is within the region… all Class A schools will have the same cut-off score in a geographical location so the country is divided into regions and geographical locations… This will help us clearly in avoiding the hardships of children having to travel for long distances. It would minimise those problems so that children can be allocated [schools] nearer to where they are living…” the minister said.
Baksh said some 50 students were awarded non-residential places at President’s College and a further 70 were awarded residential places.
With Mae’s Under-12 the top performing school this year St Margaret’s Primary came in second with 13 students in the top 100 followed by the New Guyana School and North Georgetown Primary with 12 and 11 respectively.
Cumberland Primary School in Berbice performed creditably with six students in the top 100.
Congrats to this young lady. I do hope and pray that she goes from strenght to strenght & continue to be one of the bright beacons of the future. Here is a talented mind, nuture it.
Congrats ,Larissa ,keep up the good work.Having taught in a foreign for over eight years I still think we have a high education standard.To all the hard working teachers in Guyana continue the the hard work.
CONGRATS! CONGRATS! CONGRATS to Larissa Wiltshire for her achievement,may you go on to even more educational achievements. Keep it up girl we are all proud of you and for all the hard work you must have put in. Congrats to your parents too for steering you in the direction of opportunity. KEEP IT UP. Its so refeshing to see the young people doing so well. All the best
My congratulations to this young woman on her passing marks, with that all said and done, my only gripe is that when these young people complete school and take their cxc exams and do all they have to do, wheree are the jobs for them when they come out of school.
Isn’t it possible for them to become job-creators instead of the usual job-seekers?
Not everyone can come out and be a job creator my friend.
Of course, not everyone. Perhaps, one or two or a few can create jobs for the others.
Congrats to all those who pass,and to those who are unsuccessful it is not the end yet.What I would like to see more students from Govt schools be in the top positions. All the best.
And let’s spare a thought for those who did not pass, and we can only wonder why and what are their options now.
congrats yong lady see u in america in a few yrs
Congradulations Larissa, I do hope that you would be able to play a meaningful role in Guyana when you are older. Keep up the good work, enjoy being a child, and do not ever forget your study, all the very best in your comming school years.
Leaders of Guyana, there are many less fortunate who also have the potentials as Larissa give them the chance to make us proud of our youths,let them know the meaning of ÖNE PEOPLE ONE NATION and ONE DESTINY
BREAKING NEWS: CNN REPORTS- ONE THIRD OF US HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS ARE FAILING.
In the USA, such info is freely available. In Guyana, to get the numbers and percentages who did not pass is not so freely available.
Larissa your success is God success, keep it up.