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CARIBBEAN EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL ANNUAL REPORT 2020

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Candidate performance improved on the multiple-choice Overall, 75 per cent of the candidates achieved Grades I–III,
paper, Paper 01, while performance on the School-Based a figure which was consistent with that on 2019 examination.
Assessment, Paper 03, remained consistent over the three-
year period. There was improvement in the performance on Profile
2, Knowledge and Comprehension, with 88 per cent of
FOOD, NUTRITION AND HEALTH candidates achieving Grades A-C, an increase over 2019. On
In 2020, 91.16 per cent of candidates obtained Grades I–III Profile 1, Practical Skills, there was a decline in performance
compared to 91.58 per cent in 2019 and 89.74 per cent in 2018. as 70 per cent of candidates achieved Grades A-C compared
with 93 per cent in 2019. On Profile 3, Use of Knowledge, the
For Profile 1, 79.87 percent of candidates obtained Grades A-C proportion of candidates achieving Grades A-C was 60 per
compared to 83.36 per cent in 2019 and 77.72 per cent in 2018. cent; a figure consistent with 2019.

For Profile 2, 86.88 per cent of candidates obtained Grade A-C HUMAN AND SOCIAL BIOLOGY
compared to per cent in 83.01 in 2019 and 75.28 per cent in The overall performance of candidates, in 2020, was
2018. comparable to that of the previous year, with 52.2 per cent
of candidates achieving acceptable grades, Grades I–III,
For Profile 3, 90.81 per cent of candidates obtained Grades compared with 52.2 per cent of candidates in 2019 and 64.4
A-C compared to 96.30 per cent in 2019 and 96.49 per cent per cent in 2018.
in 2018.
There was an improvement in performance on Profile 1,
FRENCH Knowledge and Comprehension, and Profile 2, Use of
In 2020, 70.5 percent of the candidates achieved acceptable Knowledge over last year.
Grades, I–III, in comparison to 64 percent in 2019 and 71
percent in 2018. There were improved performances on INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY
Profiles 2 (Reading), 3 (Speaking) and 4 (Writing). Profile 1 was Option A (Electrical)
comparable to the performance in 2019. In 2020, 3688 candidates took the Option A examination which
is a slight decrease from 2019 which had 3588 candidates
Approximately, 16 per cent of candidates received Grade I in writing the examination. The acceptable grades, Grades I–III,
2020 when compared to 13 per cent in 2019 and 16 per cent obtained by candidates were 85% in 2018 and 87% in 2019
in 2018. and 2020.

GEOGRAPHY Option B (Mechanical)
The number of candidates registered to sit the 2020 In 2020, 2194 candidates took the Option B examination.
Geography examination moved from 21 197 in 2019 to 11,711; a This was an increase from 2019 which had 1951 candidates
decline of about three per cent. writing the examination. The acceptable grades, Grades I–III,
obtained by candidates were 83% in 2018, 86% in 2019 and
87% in 2020.

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