CXC results look good so far

Even though CXC results were released fairly late to school principals yesterday at 1.30 pm, Principal of Fatima College, Anthony Garcia, said, “Fatima boys are good boys,” as he revealed that 90 percent of students who took this year’s exam had achieved full certificates.

Speaking with Newsday from Fatima College yesterday afternoon, Garcia expressed joy with the results, and said they were actually swamped with calls from students enquiring about the results as well as persons wanting information about collecting results. Revealing that many students had obtained “straight Is,” he said the school once again recorded outstanding successes in areas such as English Language, English Literature, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Geography. He congratulated both the teachers and students, who he said “worked very hard.” An official at St Joseph’s Convent, Port-of-Spain, would only say that the school recorded a 100 percent pass rate, which they described as “excellent.” Checks with South-East Port-of-Spain and St James Secondary revealed that not many students had collected results and that they were expecting many students tomorrow following announcements in the media that the results were at the school today. Eastern-based schools such as the Tunapuna Government Secondary School and St Joseph’s Convent, St Joseph, stated their results would be released tomorrow and that they had gotten results consistent with the standard to which they were accustomed.

A student of the Couva Government Secondary School reliably informed Newsday that following checks with the District Education Office and the school, the principal would not be releasing the results until today. In south, ASJA Boys’ College principal, Alim Ali, revealed that “a handful of students” had come to the school to collect their results. “They were here and looking anxious so we obliged,” he said. He said at first glance, the results had been “very good” for the school. Ali said that some 90 percent of the student body received full certificates of five subjects. At Presentation College, San Fernando, Ag Principal Errol Jaikaransingh also confirmed that the results were “looking pretty good.” He too said that “a few” students had come to collect their results, but he expected the main student body to come out today to collect the results.