The Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC\u00ae) has engaged with regional governments and other key stakeholders from across the region on the conception and planning of the 2021 regional examinations and registers its appreciation for their enriching contributions.<\/p>\n
A Special Meeting of Council was held on Tuesday, 25 May 2021 and members reviewed and accepted a report from CXC\u2019s School Examinations Committee (SEC), that made recommendations on the strategy for the 2021 regional examinations, which emanated from discussions at CARICOM\u2019s Council of Human and Social Development (COHSOD) 28th Special session on 12 May 2021.<\/p>\n
After careful deliberation and consideration of all the pertinent issues, Council (made up of Governments from across the region), agreed that the revised strategy for the 2021 regional examinations shall be as follows:<\/p>\n
The Special Council Meeting took note of the Concessions that CXC\u00ae has already put in place to date, in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, it is important to note that further consideration will be given during the grading process, to account for the likely psychosocial impact on students\u2019 performance, to further ensure that they are not disenfranchised.<\/p>\n
On-site Moderation<\/strong> Concessions St Vincent & the Grenadines<\/strong> Council believes that these decisions are made in the best interest of our stakeholders across the region at this time and will continue to engage and collaborate with all stakeholders to ensure that there is equity and fairness for all candidates, that the integrity of the regional examinations remain intact and that the health and well-being of our stakeholders remain paramount.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Statement on the Decisions of the Special Meeting of CXC\u2019s Council on the 2021 Regional Examinations Strategy The Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC\u00ae) has engaged with regional governments and other key stakeholders from across the region on the conception and planning of the 2021 regional examinations and registers its appreciation for ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7575,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78,68],"tags":[263,187],"class_list":["post-9213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-press-release","tag-cxc","tag-saint-vincent-and-the-grenadines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9213"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9215,"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9213\/revisions\/9215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nCXC\u00ae has also introduced a new level of flexibility for the delayed conduct of on-site moderation, with an absolute deadline now set at 31 July 2021.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>The Concessions which have already been put in place in light of the COVID-19 pandemic include:<\/p>\n\n
\nCXC\u00ae reduced the SBA requirements by as much as 50 per cent in some subjects.<\/li>\n
\nExaminations have been delayed by 6 weeks. A further delay of two weeks to 28 June 2021.<\/li>\n
\n<\/strong>The deadline for the submission of SBAs has been extended by 6 weeks.
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\n<\/strong>CXC\u00ae released the Broad Topics on Monday, 10 May 2021 and territories have submitted queries, to which CXC\u00ae has been responding. In this regard, a review is currently underway.
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\n<\/strong>Candidates have the option to defer some or all of their Examinations to either January or June 2022. CXC\u00ae has further extended candidates\u2019 opportunity to indicate their intent for deferral to 31 May 2021.
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\n<\/strong>For the first time, CXC\u00ae will accept SBAs in January 2022 for candidates deferring to sit examinations for subjects offered in that period.
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\nCouncil also noted that CXC\u00ae continues to work with representatives from the Ministry of Education in St Vincent & the Grenadines to ensure that its candidates will not be disenfranchised as a result of the volcanic eruption.<\/p>\n