NGSA results to be announced in June – Manickchand

Education Minister Priya Manickchand on Wednesday said the results for this year’s sitting of the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) will be announced in June.

Minister Manickchand was at the time delivering remarks at the ministry’s S.T.E.A.M. Fair, being held at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre.

“We just concluded the NGSA last week, we already are able to tell you that the results will be in, on or before June 26 this year.

“The Caribbean Examination Council is already in possession of papers and will begin, I believe on Friday, to start doing some standardization, which means they’ve already batching and doing other things that they usually do,” the Minister said.

The examination, written on April 16 and 17, had the highest turnout of students across the country since the COVID-19 pandemic. The Education Ministry noted that 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.

Access to education has changed significantly and the ministry will continue its efforts to acquire universal education in Guyana at all levels. Currently, Guyana has accomplished universal education at the primary level.