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CARIBBEAN EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL ANNUAL REPORT 2020

APPENDIX ONE

Structure of the Council

The Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) also meets after by Examiners and Assistant Examiners after the examinations
each examinations sitting and reports to the Final Awards have been written.
Committee. TAC is responsible for ensuring that the Subject
Awards Committees follow specified standards for awarding An Examining Committee consists of a Chief Examiner and
grades, promote consistency, accuracy and fairness in the Assistant Chief Examiners. The Committee’s main task is the
scores awarded for all examinations, assure the maintenance setting of question papers - a task requiring both care and
of standards in all stages of the examining process, including expertise and demanding rigorous security at all stages. Staff
paper setting, examinations administration, and marking, members of the Measurement and Evaluation Division assist
and assure the consistency of grade standards across years, the committees.
subjects and examination sittings.
National Committees
Subject Panels A National Committee is established by each Participating
Subject panels are appointed by the School Examinations Government in its territory and comprises representatives of a
Committee (SEC) to advise it on all matters concerning CXC® Ministry or Department of Education, the teaching profession,
subject offerings. The panels are responsible for preparing the universities in the area and the general community.
syllabuses and recommending methods of testing. The panels
also consider comments and suggestions on the syllabuses The Chairperson of a National Committee is normally appointed
and examinations and recommends to SUBSEC desirable by the Participating Government from among the members of
syllabus and examination modifications in the light of those that National Committee.
comments.
Administrative and Operational Centres
Subject panels normally consist of six members of the For operational purposes, the region is divided into two
education profession, drawn from Participating Countries, geographical areas - the Eastern Zone and the Western
but persons can be co-opted for special meetings. At least Zone. Administrative and Operational Centres (AOCs), one for
three members of the panel must be practising teachers of each zone, have been established in Barbados and Jamaica
the subject. respectively.

Subject panels have continuing responsibility for reviewing The Council’s Chief Executive Officer, the Registrar, is located
the syllabuses and ensuring that the Council is kept abreast of at the Council’s Headquarters in Barbados.
the developments in curricula throughout the region. Panels
also nominate persons from among whom SUBSEC selects The office in Jamaica has operational responsibility for the
members of the Examining Committees. Western Zone. The Pro-Registrar who is in charge of this centre
exercises functions delegated to the Western Zone Office
Examining Committees in matters relating to all National Committees, the School
The members of the Examining Committees are responsible Examinations Committee and its Sub-Committee (SUBSEC),
for the main work of examining, including setting question subject panels, and syllabus formulation and review.
papers, preparing mark schemes, supervising the marking

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