CXC primary exit assessment seeks to replace common entrance region wide

By Zoisa Fraser On In Guyana News |
The Caribbean journalists who attended a one-day seminar yesterday hosted by the Caribbean Examination Council (CXC). Seated in front from left are Dr Gordon Harewood, Senior Assistant Registrar, Examinations Development and Production Division; Dianne Medford, Assistant Registrar Examinations Administration and Security (EAS); Cleveland Sam, Assistant Registrar, Public Relations and Customer Services; and Susan Giles, Senior Assistant Registrar, EAS.
The Caribbean journalists who attended a one-day seminar yesterday hosted by the Caribbean Examination Council (CXC). Seated in front from left are Dr Gordon Harewood, Senior Assistant Registrar, Examinations Development and Production Division; Dianne Medford, Assistant Registrar Examinations Administration and Security (EAS); Cleveland Sam, Assistant Registrar, Public Relations and Customer Services; and Susan Giles, Senior Assistant Registrar, EAS.

By Zoisa Fraser In Barbados

Officials at the Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) are looking to implement a common regional primary assessment programme, which would be a modified and enhanced version of the Common Entrance exam.

Journalists from Guyana, Barbados, Grenada, Trinidad and Antigua among other Caribbean countries were told at a one-day CXC hosted workshop yesterday that the new assessment is already in use in Grenada. Students there are preparing for the external aspect of the programme in the form of an exam later this year.

This move by the CXC will have