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CSEC® CSEC® SBA RECORDS
40. Local Registrars were reminded, via email communication, 43. The number of candidate entries for SBA subjects was
of the deadlines for the submission of the SBA records 460,412, a decrease (4.68 per cent) when compared with
and samples. Local Registrars, Permanent Secretaries and 482,966 in 2018. The percentage of SBA data records
Chief Education Officers were also reminded that no SBA submitted was slightly higher than in 2018: of the 460,412
samples or scores would be accepted after the absolute CSEC® SBA records expected, 441,242 were submitted
deadline of 30 June 2019; and that candidates for whom (95.84 per cent), compared with 94.41 per cent in 2018.
no SBA Scores or SBA samples were received, would be Some 19,170 SBA scores have not been received by CXC
reported “Ungraded: no SBA received”. to date, and of this number, teachers’ reports suggest
that 18,607 have not been submitted by candidates. This
41. One territory requested an extension of the deadline for number accounted for 4.04 per cent of the candidate
the submission of CSEC® SBA records and samples, citing population. To date, no SBA records have been received
the challenges encountered using the system and was for 752 candidates (0.16 per cent).
granted an extension until 17 May, 2019. In order to be fair
to all territories, penalties for late submission were only
incurred for submissions received after this date.

42. Random Sampling which was previously utilised for a
select group of subjects, was instituted across most
subjects: CSEC® English A/B and Mathematics were
the only exclusions. This was decided because, while
historically, the data indicates that more than 80 per cent of
the moderation decisions are to accept the teacher’s mark,
there was insufficient data for the CSEC® English A/B and
Mathematics SBAs which were introduced in 2018.

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