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World Class Exams – Suite of Qualifications

Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE )
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BIOLOGY Option B
Unit 1 In Unit 1, 89 per cent of candidates achieved acceptable
The percentage of candidates earning acceptable grades grades, Grades I—V. In Unit 2, 92 per cent of candidates
(Grades I-V) was approximately 91.57 per cent compared achieved acceptable grades. Similar to previous years, no
with 90.55 per cent in 2019 and 88.34 percent in 2018. The candidate achieved Grade I in Unit 2 of this option and only
percentage of candidates earning Grades I was approximately three candidates achieved Grade I in Unit 1. This was also the
33.85 per cent compared with 31.74 per cent in 2018 and 27.66 case in 2019.
per cent in 2017.
There was good performance on Paper 01, with 92 per cent of
Unit 2 candidates achieving Grades I—V on Unit 1 and 94 per cent of
The percentage of candidates earning acceptable grades candidates achieving Grades I—V on Unit 2.
(Grades I-V) was approximately 94.92 per cent compared
with 94.44 per cent in 2019 and 94.58 per cent in 2018. The Performance on Paper 03 was good across the two Units, with
percentage of candidates earning Grades I was approximately 95 per cent of candidates achieving Grades I—V in Unit 1 and
44 per cent compared with 41.27 per cent in 2019 and 18.74 93 per cent achieving in Unit 2.
per cent in 2018.
CARIBBEAN STUDIES
BUILDING AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DRAWING Twelve thousand, seven hundred and seventeen candidates
Option A registered for the 2020 Caribbean Studies examination
In Unit 1, 93 per cent of the candidates achieved acceptable compared with 12 342 in 2019. This represents a 3 per cent
grades, I—V. In Unit 2, 90 per cent of candidates achieved increase in registrants.
acceptable grades.
The overall performance was consistent with that of 2019 as
There was reasonable performance on Unit 1 Paper 01, with 89 approximately 98 per cent of the candidates achieved Grades
per cent of candidates achieving acceptable grades. Similarly, I-V in both years. Approximately 75 per cent of the candidates
in Unit 2, Paper 01, 94 per cent of candidates achieved Grades achieved the highest three grades, Grade I–III, a performance
I—V. consistent with 2019.

Performance on Paper 03 was similar across the two Units, For Module 1, Caribbean Society and Culture, 83 per cent of the
with 97 per cent of candidates achieving acceptable grades candidates achieved Grade A-C in 2020 compared with 65 per
I—V in Unit 1 and Unit 2. cent in 2019. For Module 2, Issues in Caribbean Development,
there was also improvement in performance with 78 per cent
of the candidates achieving Grade A-C compared with 54
per cent in 2019. There was a decline in the performance on
Module 3, Investigating Issues in the Caribbean, with 59 per
cent of candidates performing at this level compared with 87
per cent in 2019.

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