Highest turnout for NGSA since COVID

Minister of Education Priya, at the end of the first day of the 2025 National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA), announced a high turnout of pupils across the country. A total of 15,813 were registered to write the exams.

“I am happy to say and I am very pleased about this with just about six schools where we do not have data for them, that’s 99 per cent of our schools that we have data for – 15, 497 children turned up to write on day one that represents a 98 per cent attendance of all our students,” the Education Minister said adding that this year is one of the highest turnout of pupils.

“It is the highest we have seen since COVID,” Manickchand said.

Region Five had the highest attendance rate with 98.8 per cent.
Additionally, 115 special education needs pupils wrote the exams, while 91 wrote the exams in Spanish. The Spanish version of the secondary entrance exam was introduced last year.

Citing various investments and interventions by the ministry, Manickchand was also optimistic about better results this year.

She attributed the high turnout to the school feeding programme for public schools, stationery packages for every child in both private and public schools for the NGSA, which includes the correct exam pencils, rulers, and erasers.

Minister Manickchand also revealed that all children in public schools received the required textbooks, while more teachers were trained in delivering a higher quality of education.