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by Randy Bennett
After weeks of delay, the Caribbean Examination Council ( CXC) has completed the majority of the much-anticipated review process, but scores of Barbadian students are not happy with the grades released by the regional examining body.
And outspoken student advocate Khaleel Kothdiwala has warned that the examination body could face legal action as a result.
In a press release on its website yesterday, CXC revealed that it had finished reviewing 80 per cent of the papers which had been submitted for remarking.
“At this time 80 per cent of requests for reviews have been completed and we are working assiduously to complete the remainder,” CXC posted on its website.
8:04 pm, Thu December 10, 2020
Adela Scotland, a sixth form student in Trinidad; Khaleel Kothdiwala, Head Boy at Queens College in Barbados; and Linvern Wright, President of the Jamaica Association of Principals of Secondary Schools
Some regional students have reported they are grappling with suicidal thoughts and loss of scholarships following this year s CSEC and CAPE exams.
Speaking on Thursday at a Regional Stakeholder Press Conference to demand answers from CXC, Adela Scotland, an upper sixth form student at St. Francois Girl s School in Trinidad, said the discrepancies caused mental anguish among her peers.
I have had to take on the responsibility of comforting suicidal students across the region because they have reached out to me to express their confusion and this is something I fully understand. It is bizarre to me that despite the evident discrepancies and the constant complaints and the protests, that CXC has done nothing to assist the students
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