Its day one of the PSE and over 7,000 students countrywide sat the first half of the exam. Students had to tackle those Science questions and get creative with the Language Arts paper 1. Now, most of you know all too well the weight the PSE carries; it is one plays a big role in determining whether a student gets accepted to a high school or not. But should a student's aptitude and full potential be confined to one loaded exam? That's what we asked Director of the Examination Unit at the Ministry of Education. He says that they are evaluating the system to see how they can improve on this.
Out of the over 7,000 students 91 are special needs students. According to Longsworth a major challenge with this sitting is that many students had to take the exam in isolation because they had chicken pox. Official results should be available in August.
And while the panel is in the process of evaluating the system, the students evaluated their own performance in today's exam. We spoke to some of them after and this is what they had to say:
The students will take paper two, math and social studies on May 4th.
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