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Subject Comment Recommendation
first poem, “West Indies, USA”, does not for suitability in terms of
highlight the speaker expressing demand. Modify mark
discrimination as per the question. scheme for due
consideration.
FRENCH Section 3: The context is that of the The item must be suitable
P2 student calling to enquire about an for the target group: mindful
apartment for rent. This is a context of age group, interests; in
unfamiliar to the target group of students. keeping with
It is therefore unfamiliar to them. communicative objectives.
Suggestion: instead of
student calling to find out
about renting an apartment
for himself/herself, he/she
could be calling on behalf of
parent who wants to rent a
vacation apartment in a
French-speaking country,
for example.

Exercise leniency in the
mark scheme
Integrated Students fear that one question Item #14, Error should not occur if the
Science based on the skeletal system had no key. practice of pretesting of
They were required to name an arm bone MCQs still holds rigorously
and the options did not give an arm bone. Strike out question if
observation is valid (student
reported)
MET & The MET & EET students should have To address this situation, it
EET Paper written this exam once as Paper I is is recommended that the
I applied to all three options of the CXC prepare and distribute
Industrial Technology Syllabus. a policy document
The three options are: clarifying the need to
MET-Mechanical ONLY do Paper 01 of
EET-Electrical Industrial Technology
BFT-Building ONCE despite doing
multiple options of the
syllabus.
Industrial Instruction number 6: There is ambiguity in this
Technology This paper contains metric dimensions question which needs to be
(CSEC) only. Students should work their answers consistent with the Metric
Paper II. in the metric system. system. The 1/2 inch should
Mechanical However, in Question number 5, the be changed to 12.5 mm.

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