This year’s Grade 6 National Assessment sees 10 more boys than girls sitting the exam; results expected by July 5, education officer says

Fifty-three centres across Antigua and Barbuda are being utilized to facilitate
1,296 students who are writing the 2024 annual Grade Six National
Assessment.
 
Education Officer of Measurement and Evaluation Ineta Francis says the two-
day examination, which is the tool used to place students at the secondary
level, began on Wednesday, June 5, with language and science papers, while on
Thursday, June 6, math and social studies will be written.
 
Francis says that preparations for the annual Assessment began in January –
in the second term of the school year. It is about a five-month process in

which Ministry of Education officials prepare questions, review them, edit,
print and package the papers for the exams.  

This year, more male students – 653 in comparison to 643 females – are
sitting the exams. Elaborating, Francis says that 553 students from private
institutions are taking part in the national assessment while there are 743
from the government primary schools.
 
Over the last four years, she notes, the number of students writing the exams
has been within the 1,300 mark.
 
The education officer says students ought to have been prepared for the
examinations, since they had been told what to expect during a retreat with
their respective education officers.
 
Following these two days of the sitting, the exam papers will be graded, and
this is about an eight-day exercise.

An analysis of the marks is then done, according to Francis, and this is loaded
into a database. It is at this time that the top performers would be revealed, as
well as the performances of all those who wrote the exam.  
 
Francis says that, by July 5, the results will be ready for distribution to the
respective schools and students will then learn in which secondary institution
they have been placed.

That was Education Officer for Measurement and Evaluation Ineta
Francis.