There has been a marginal increase in the Mathematics pass rate at this year’s National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) but overall, students continue to fail the subject as well as Science and Social Studies. In fact the pass rate for every subject except Mathematics has decreased in 2019.
In English a 2018 pass rate of 60.6% decreased to 57.4%, in Science 42.4% of candidates scored 50% or more compared with 46.8% while Social Studies recorded an abysmal 39% pass rate, its lowest in at least six years.
Minister of Education Dr. Nicolette Henry while presenting the results yesterday stressed that there had been improved performances in Mathematics across all Regions while Chief Education Officer Marcel Hutson acknowledged that the recent hyper-focus on Math may have had detrimental impacts on other subject areas.
