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TABLE 9 - 2017 JANUARY E-TESTING TERRITORIES

TERRITORIES NUMBER OF E-TESTING
SUBJECTS TAKEN

Anguilla 4

Cayman Islands 8

Dominica 9

Grenada 11

Jamaica 1
Montserrat 4

St Lucia 9

55. FAC heard that the e-Testing was conducted with few challenges which required

intervention beyond the level of the centre or the Local Registrar. Among the issues requiring
CXC’s intervention were login issues, dealing with power outages, and one instance where an
exam had to be re-sent as a means of expediting access by a centre.
56. FAC heard that the comparison of the performance of candidates who wrote the
examinations using the etesting method to those of previous years was not completed.
However, out of the 30 percent of the population who submitted exit surveys at the end of
the etesting examinations, 96 per cent of the candidates expressed a favourable assessment
of the new modality, and recommended that it be extended to other subjects in the May-June
examinations.

REGISTRATION DATA

57. FAC heard that a total of 16,568 candidates registered for the January 2017
examinations. This represented 34,570 subject entries. In January 2016, 18,532 candidates
registered for the examinations and there were 40,090 subject entries.

58. FAC heard that overall candidate entries declined by 11 per cent in January
2017. Entries from Guyana declined by 17 per cent, Jamaica by 8 per cent and Trinidad and
Tobago by 15 per cent. Entries from Barbados rose by 1 per cent and St Kitts and Nevis by
34 per cent. Trinidad and Tobago comprised over 62 per cent of overall entries.

59. FAC heard that overall Subject entries declined by 14 per cent in January 2017. All

subjects had a decline except Chemistry (which increased by 24 per cent) and Physics (which
increased by 29 per cent). The most significant levels of decline were experienced in English
A which declined by 19 per cent, and Human and Social Biology by 22 per cent. Notably,
Biology declined by 8 per cent despite the increases in the other science subjects.
Mathematics declined by 6 per cent.

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