IN an effort to ensure the timely release of the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) results, the Ministry of Education (MOE) has released an update for parents, indicating that the marking of all the NGSA papers has been completed.
Currently, the marked examination scripts are being processed nationally, and all systems are in place and functioning optimally to guarantee the release of the results as promised by the ministry, by Friday, June 27, 2014.
This marks the second consecutive year that the MOE will be releasing the NGSA results promptly as indicated, through the continued enhancement of the overall quality management processes of the examination.
Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand on April 16 disclosed that the NGSA results will be made available on June 27 this year. “We are in a far better place than we were and this year even before the children started their exams they already know when results will be issued. This was something our sector needed to standardise and we did, so it’s in now, within our calendar and it’s the first time also that we have done this.”
Manickchand related during an invited comment that the ministry is expecting to see results like they have been receiving for the last few years since the sector has now been able to distribute services across Guyana.
She said that schools outside of Georgetown are now able to compete with Georgetown and “this is because of our conscious efforts to equitably distribute services throughout the country – that is if we have textbooks in Georgetown, we have the same in Berbice, Essequibo and elsewhere.”
National Grade Two Assessment
The ministry also wishes to inform parents that the National Grade Two Assessment commences on Monday, June 9, 2014, and concludes on Friday, June 20, 2014. Parents are urged to note that this assessment is conducted in two parts – oral and written – and are asked to ensure that they help in the preparation of their children for this very important assessment.
Parents of Grade Four students are also being reminded that the National Grade Four Assessment will take place on Wednesday, June 18 and Thursday, June 19, 2014. The National Grade Nine Assessment will commence on Tuesday, June 17 and conclude on Thursday, June 20, 2014.
In 2013, for the first time, the earliest release of the NGSA results was promised by Minister Manickchand. This year 15,500 students wrote the NGSA exams which were held on Wednesday, April 16 and Thursday, April 17, 2014 at centres across Guyana.
Source: (By Rebecca Ganesh-Ally) https://guyanachronicle.com/2014/05/15/ngsa-marking-completed-systems-in-place-for-release-of-results-by-june-27