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CARIBBEAN EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL ANNUAL REPORT 2020

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Sixty per cent of the candidates achieved acceptable grades PRINCIPLES OF ACCOUNTS
on the Paper 032, the Alternative to the School-Based In 2020, 16304 candidates took the examination which is a
Assessment compared with 37 per cent in 2019 and 33 per significant decrease from 2019 which had 18220 candidates
cent in 2018. writing the examination.

PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND SPORT Overall, there was a slight increase in performance in 2020
The summary performance in Grades I to III is 98.72 per cent, compared with the previous two years. The acceptable
compared to 98.16 per cent in 2019 and 98.98 per cent in 2018. grades, Grades I–III, obtained by candidates were 68.71% in
2018, 75.14% in 2019 and 77.50% in 2020.
Approximately 48 per cent of candidates received Grade I in
2020 compared to 48 per cent in 2019 and 41 per cent in 2018. PRINCIPLES OF BUSINESS
This was the second examination of the revised syllabus.
The performance in the Profile 1 (Theory), at Grades A-C is
99.94 per cent in 2020, compared with 83.27 per cent in 2019 The overall performance of candidates this year was
and 85.98 per cent in 2018. comparable to that of the previous year, with 87.6 per cent
of candidates achieving acceptable grades, Grades I–IIII,
PHYSICS compared with 87.3 per cent in 2019 and 85.8 per cent in 2018.
There was an increase in the overall performance of candidates
on this year’s examination compared to 2019. The percentage There was some improvement in performance in the multiple-
of candidates earning acceptable grades, Grades I – III was choice paper, Paper 01, with 85.1 per cent of the candidates
81.07 per cent compared with 73.18 per cent in 2019. achieving acceptable grades compared with 84.9 per cent in
2019 and 81.2 per cent in 2018.
There was similar performance in the Grade I band
performance; with 29.06 per cent of the candidates earning Candidate performance on the School-Based Assessment,
Grade I compared to 27.43 per cent of the candidates in 2019. Paper 03, remained stable over the three-year period, with
98.2 per cent achieving acceptable grades, compared with
PORTUGUESE 96.8 in 2019 and 98.6 in 2018.
In 2020, 120 candidates were entered for the CSEC Portuguese
examination compared with 142 candidates in 2019 and 116 There was a decline in performance on the Alternative to the
candidates in 2018. School-Based Assessment, Paper 032, over last year, with
88.8 per cent of candidates achieving acceptable grades,
Eighty percent of the candidates achieved the acceptable compared with 92.5 in 2019 and 68.8 per cent in 2018.
grades Grades I–III, compared with 81 percent in 2019 and
72 percent in 2018. There is an improved performance on
Profile 4 (Writing) and decreased performances on Profile 2
(Reading) and Profile 3 (Speaking) while Profile 1 (Listening)
was comparable to the performance in 2019.

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