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1. 100% passes were recorded in eight of them namely: Principles of Business, Agriculture SA,
Food and Nutrition, Building Technology (Woods), Information Technology, Technical
Drawing, Electricity and Physical Education (PE).

2. Pass rates ranging from 90% to 97% were recorded for Biology, Office administration,
Principles of Accounts and Electronic Document Management and Preparation (EDPM).

3. Pass rates ranging from 80% to 86% were recorded for History, French, Geography and
Physics.

4. Social Studies and Visual Arts returned pass rates of 43.9% and 40% respectively.

5. Students were entered for PE for the second consecutive year. Of the eighteen students who
were entered for the examination, 9 obtained Grade 1s while the other 9 obtained Grade 2s.

6. Pass rates of 80%, 65.1% and 85.7% were recorded for Geography, Integrated Science and
Physics respectively.

7. English A registered 66.2% pass rate, down from 76% obtained in 2016. This downgrade was
in part attributable to the increase in the number of students writing the exam. A record ninety
three percent of the year 5 cohort wrote the English A exam. Prior to this year, students in the
lowest stream of the year 5 cohort did not write the English A exam.

8. The performance in Math improved over that of 2016. A 56.9% pass rate was recorded
compared to that of 2016.

Performance trend in Math and English over the 5 year period,
2013 to 2017.
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Y2013 Y2014 Y2015 Y2016 Y2017

English Math

Comparison of student performance in English and Math, 2013 to 2017 at the CSEC level

In 2014, the school was successful in ensuring that for both Math and English, at least 50% of its
students were successful in the CSEC examinations. Since then the trend has been upwards.
Math achieved a high of 67.4% pass rate in 2015, slipped in 2016 but is on an upward trajectory