CAPE results change for some

She claims her Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) results were changed last week Wednesday. She said she was made aware of the situation when one of her friends advised her to recheck her online results as some students’ grades were being changed.

“The results I received on August 18 had been changed because CXC had given me a grade three in Economics and now I’m seeing a grade one,” she said.

The student said she knows of an instance where a student received a grade four in Management of Business and subsequently had that changed to a grade one.

“CXC is making mistakes and giving persons the wrong grade and no one knows what was the cause of their error.” She said some students may have received a change and they are unaware of this. “Some of my friends were depressed and had gotten into bad habits such as drinking. This is people’s lives CXC is jeopardising.” She said her main concern is the results which schools and universities would have received. “If CXC made a mistake and gave me the wrong grade, then that is what I would have submitted to universities, so it is now affecting my chances of getting in.” She said the results on her preliminary results slip are now different from the online results. “I was told by my school that the actual certificate will have the correct results.” The student said some of them who had paid for queries are uncertain about the possibility of getting refunds.

An Arima student told Newsday, “I was hearing rumours of results changing so I went to check mine as well, but it seems that CXC has locked the system off now.” This change has left many students questioning the integrity of the results they received.

Minister of Education Anthony Garcia said an investigation is being conducted to determine whether there were technical changes to the region