CAPE results out on Monday
Jensen LaVende
jlavende@trinidadexpress.com
Saturday, August 16th 2008
students across the country who wrote the Caribbean Advance Proficiency Examination (CAPE) earlier this year will get their results on Monday, Cleveland Sam, communications specialist for the Caribbean Examination Council (CXC), which is in charge of all CAPE papers, said yesterday in a news release.
The release also stated that there was a significant increase in the type of grades achieved by the students this year, as opposed to last year.
The release stressed that performances in the two technology-related subjects of computer science and information technology showed the most improved performance.
The released added that performance improved in 14 units, remained the same in six units and declined in 24 units in the overall sitting of the exam.
Candidates who completed seven CAPE units in a given cluster are eligible for CXC Associate Degrees, Sam added.
Candidates must have completed seven units, including Caribbean studies and communication studies, and must have achieved Grades I to V in each unit to qualify.
The overall top performer will receive the Dennis Irvine Award, which was won by Akash Maharaj of Presentation College, Chaguanas, last year.
The release comes after 12 people were charged with breaching CXC exams in both CAPE and O-Level examinations.
On August 4, Scott Joseph and Nyron Toney appeared before a Tunapuna magistrate, charged with the offence arising out of the breach in the CAPE Communications Studies Paper II.
Randall Raphael, Randall Sandiford and Rudra Badree also appeared in the Port of Spain Magistrates' Court the next day, charged for the same offence.
And on May 23, Ministry of Education employee Arianna Lakatoo, 18, and her cousin, Mikel Torres, 20, were charged with having CXC tests papers before the examinations were held. They were each granted bail in the sum of $1 million.
The remaining seven are expected to appear in the San Fernando Magistrates' Court in September.
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taken from express newspapers today