Two boys from Anna Regina Multilateral School on the Essequibo Coast topped this year’s Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) exams, according to the preliminary results released yesterday by the Ministry of Education.
Additionally, Queen’s College’s (QC) Bhedesh Persaud, who was also a 2021 top CSEC performer, secured 14 grade ones and 1 grade three at this year’s Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examinations (CAPE). He was named Guyana’s top performer at the examinations.
The results of the 2022 CAPE and CSEC examinations were announced by Minister of Education Priya Manickchand in Region Two. The Minister stated that the results were preliminary and can be subject to change following a final review by the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC).
Nevertheless, she announced that two boys from Anna Regina Multilateral School (ARMS) tied for the most grade ones at the examinations. They have been identified as Ramoll Baboolall and Uotam Heeralall. Baboolall who wrote 27 subjects secured 24 ones and 3 twos while Heerall wrote 25 subjects and got 24 ones and 1 two.
The third highest number of grade ones was secured by another ARMS student Daniel Dowding who wrote 25 subjects and secured 22 grade ones and 3 twos. Queen’s College’s Saskia Twahir attained 21 grade ones and 2 grade twos, while Chavelle Solomon and Eshika Singh of ARMS secured 19 ones and 2 twos and 18 ones, respectively.
QC’s Sheridan Dyal and Kripa Thani attained 18 ones and 1 two and 18 ones, respectively. Manisha Bhrimranie of the ARMS secured 16 ones and 3 twos, while Queen’s College’s Lateisha Mc Arthur obtained 16 ones and 2 twos to round out the ten students with the most grade ones.
The following students accounted for the remainder of the 28 candidates who attained 12 or more grade ones – Leezo Prasad, Skeldon Line Path, 16 ones and 1 two; Niashree Madho, Saraswati Vidya Niketan (SVN), 16 ones and 3 twos; Bhagmattie Sarendranauth, SVN, 16 ones and 4 twos; Pauline Forde, ARMS, 15 ones and 3 twos; Satrupa Persaud, ARMS, 15 ones and 2 twos; Tia Chung, QC, 15 ones and 3 twos; Anyah Couchman, QC, 15 ones and 1 two; Aaron Gunraj, Tagore High, 15 ones and 1 two; Arianna Singh, SVN, 15 ones and 3 twos; Mohammed Sultan, SVN, 15 ones and 2 twos; Aryan Doodnauth, ARMS, 14 ones and 3 twos; Devina Persaud, ARMS, 14 ones; Nevarshani Ramlakhan, ARMS, 14 ones; Naomi Barkoye, QC, 14 ones and 1 two; Gabriella Roberts, QC, 14 ones and 3 twos; Mariah Salick, QC, 14 ones and 3 twos; Heteshvari Aaditya, Rosignol Secondary, 14 ones; and Shoaib Haroon, Abram’s Zuil Secondary 14 ones and 2 twos.
Manickchand said that government requested from CXC, a list of candidates who secured eight or more grade ones at the CSEC examinations and used that to further determine the country’s top performers. CXC provided the Ministry with 231 names from schools in Regions Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Ten and Georgetown.
231 names
Schools from Regions One, Seven, Eight and Nine failed to make the cut of students attaining more than eight grade ones.
In Region Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam) some 31 students secured in excess of eight grade ones with 21 from ARMS, 8 from Abrams’s Zuil Secondary and two from Al Madinah Islamic Academy. In the Essequibo Islands-West Demerara region, SVN reigned supreme with 29 candidates, West Demerara Secondary 5, Leguan Secondary 2 and one each from Patentia Secondary and the Professional Learning College.
The Diamond and Soesdyke Secondary Schools each fielded one student with eight or more grade ones while President’s College has 2, Hope Secondary 3, Annandale Secondary 2, Apex Academy 4 and Camille’s Institute of Business 2. Meanwhile, over in Region Five Rosignol Secondary and Fraser’s Educational Institute both have three students while Bygeval Secondary has 4 in the top 213.
Berbice High and Skeldon Line Path Secondary both have four students in the top 213 CSEC performers while JC Chandisingh and Tagore Memorial Secondary have two students each.
Mackenzie High was listed as the only school from Region Ten with a single candidate attaining more than eight grade ones.
Led the way
In Georgetown, Queen’s College led the way with 43 candidates while the Bishops’ High has 12, St Stanislaus College 12, St Rose’s High 16, St Joseph High 9, Richard Ishmael Secondary 1, North Ruimveldt Secondary 1, ISA Islamic 6, Marian Academy 4 and Chase’s Academy Foundation 1.
For CAPE, Persaud has once again proved that he can excel after successfully taking on fifteen units during his first sitting. The Queen’s College student secured grade ones in Applied Mathematics Unit 2, Biology Unit 2, Chemistry Unit 2, Economics Unit 2, Environmental Science Unit 2, Pure Mathematics Unit 2, Physics Unit 2, Spanish Unit 2, Integrated Mathematics Unit 1, Entrepreneurship Units 1 and 2, Management of Business Units 1 and 2, Communication Students Unit 1 and a grade three in Caribbean Studies Unit 1.
Meanwhile, Berbice High School student Vish Kitama obtained the second highest number of grade ones at CAPE. He got 10 grade ones in Environmental Science Unit 1, Tourism Units 1 and 2, Chemistry Unit 2, History Unit 2, Law Unit 2, Management of Business Unit 2, Physics Unit 2, Sociology Unit 2, Green Engineering Unit 2, and a grade two in Biology Unit 2.
Atishta Seenarine of SVN on the West Coast of Demerara sat nine Units at 2022 CAPE. She attained grade ones in Caribbean Studies Unit 1, Applied Mathematics Unit 2, Biology Unit 2, Chemistry Unit 2, Computer Science Unit 2, Environmental Science Unit 2, Information Technology Unit 2, Pure Mathematics Unit 2, and Physics Unit 2. Last year, she also secured 9 grade ones at CAPE Unit 1.
Trenny Edwards of St Stanislaus College secured grade ones in Pure Mathematics Units 1 and 2, Tourism Units 1 and 2, Integrated Mathematics Unit 1, Environmental Science Unit 1, grade twos in Biology Unit 2, Chemistry Unit 2, Caribbean Studies Unit 1, grade threes in Agricultural Science Unit 1, Entrepreneurship Units 1 and 2, and a grade four in History Unit 1. During the announcement of the results, Manickchand said that she is proud of the students’ performances given all that has happened since 2020 with the COVID pandemic. She also stressed that while the Ministry is announcing the results, they remain preliminary and subject to change after review.
