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Appendix 1: Brief on the results of the SEA 2017 Review of Scripts

1) From the eighteen thousand one hundred and eighty (18180) students who wrote the SEA,

a total of three hundred and nine (309) students or 1.7% requested from CXC, a review of
their SEA scripts as follows:

a) Mathematics – 200

b) English Language Arts – 184
c) English Language Arts Writing – 274

2) Based on the results of the reviews, one hundred and forty-three (143) students or 46.3%
of those requesting reviews had an increase in their original scores. The number of students

having an increase in their original scores by subject area is as follows:

a) Mathematics – 88 or 44%
b) English Language Arts – 24 or 13%

c) English Language Arts Writing – 46 or 16.8%

3) The range of score points by which student scores improved are as follows:

a) Mathematics: 1 – 5 pts. with one student score increasing by 18 pts.
b) English Language Arts: 1 – 2 pts. with one student score increasing by 8 pts.

c) English Language Arts Writing: 1 – 4 pts.

4) As a result of the increase in scores of the one hundred and forty-three (143) students,
thirty-six (36) students or 25% had to be reassigned to a new secondary school.

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