In the north, Louisiana Government School's Jose Arciga should be front and centre. He's one of the top finishers in his district, but due to an error the original test results didn't even have him in the top 30.
Today, when the Minister of Education was asked about it, he reiterated that the scores were preliminary, and every year there are few errors which are ironed out. He says that the Ministry allows a grace period for any challenge to the scores:
Hon. Patrick Faber - Minister of Education
"Every year we do have queries. I don't want anybody to run away with the idea that this is not normal. In fact, if you look at the press release - the release that came along with the grades of the Primary School Exams, not only this year - it says preliminary. The reason why we say preliminary is because we give the time period for the grades to be queried. If people feel that there is a serious query that needs to be made, we accept those and that is why there is a time period as well between when the grades are announced and the award ceremony. So for instance the cut off point for those queries was last Friday. So we give an adequate time period for those queries to be made. Yes there were queries from Louisiana; I believe those queries have been addressed and that is a normal part of the process. There are some glitches that we had to take care of, but again this is normal; we expected that - we expect that in any cycle. And our pledge in our ministry of course, especially in the exams unit is for us to do better every year. So we are hoping that next year the kinds of issues that presented themselves this year might not be there again and that people can remain confident. They are pretty confident now that these exams are good quality exams and that the results are results that are reliable."
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