CSEC pass rate plunges in Maths, rises in English

Only 38.37% of the local students who wrote Mathematics at this year’s Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations were able to secure a pass. This is almost 7% less than the 45.07% pass rate for the core subject in 2015. It is also less than the 38.75% pass rate that was recorded in 2014. “We can never be satisfied as long as students are failing Mathematics,” Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Education Delma Nedd told reporters yesterday. Asked to account for this year’s decline, Nedd noted that this drop is reflected regionally. “I have been told that there is a decline across the Caribbean,” she said. The Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) had announced last week that a 44% pass rate in Mathematics this year represented a drop from the 57% recorded in 2015.