THE CARIBBEAN Examinations Council (CXC) is reporting an improvement in the performance of candidates who sat this year's Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) Examinations.
Cleveland Sam, public information officer for CXC, said yesterday that more than 61 per cent of the entries achieved grades one to three, representing a 12 per cent improvement when compared with last year.
At the same time, he said both candidate entries and subject entries increased in the January examinations.
Candidate entries increased from 18, 452 to 21, 277 while subject entries moved from 29, 119 to 29, 808 this year.
IMPROVED PERFORMANCE
He noted that six of the 12 subjects examined returned improved performance when compared to 2005. Performance declined in five subjects and was unchanged in one subject.
In a news release, the public information officer said the best performance this year was in Spanish. Some 82 per cent of the entries achieved grades one to three compared with 71 per cent in 2005.
The largest percentage point improvement was in English Language with 69 per cent achieving Grades one to three in 2006 compared with 40 per cent last year.
Performance in Mathematics also improved significantly from 42 per cent in 2005 to 53 per cent this year.
