Saraswati Vidya Niketan CSEC Report 2023

  • SVN’s Students Excel Once Again in CSEC 2023 Exams

    • September 14, 2023
    • Posted By : Virendra Dookie
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    ————————————————————————————————————————————–Report by Swami Aksharananda Ji ~
    Founder & Principal of Saraswati Vidya Niketan

     

    The May-June 2023 CSEC results were declared on Thursday last, August 24 by the Ministry of Education (MOE). A total of 12,188 students in Guyana registered for the examinations which according to information provided show a slight decrease in the overall pass rate at 65% as against 68.5% in 2022.

    In this year, 67 SVN students, 47 females and 20 males, appeared for the exams. The number of subjects offered is year was 21 up by one from last year, the new subject being Industrial Technology: Electrical and Electronic Technology. A single student attempted all 21 subjects, whereas the minimum number taken was 10.

    PUBLIC SCHOOLS PLACEMENT
    National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) examination is the basis on which students are placed in the various secondary schools and the top 5-6% are awarded places in the leading public schools. For example, students of the current CSEC 2023 batch wrote their NGSA examinations in 2018 when a total of 14,065 candidates took the examinations. In that year, 144 students gained marks from 513 upwards and of these 111 with marks from 514 were earmarked for Queen’s College.

    Saraswati Vidya Niketan has an open admission policy that does not take into account NGSA scores. Thus, in 2018, when the present batch of CSEC students gained admission, NGSA scores ranged from 384 to 521, showing the following breakdown: 16 students with scores 500 marks and more, 14 in their 490’s, and the remaining 28 with scores from 384 to 471. The average NGSA score this year was 472.

    SUMMARY of SVN’s RESULTS

    • 58 of the 67 of our students matriculated with 55 gaining 10 subjects or more. One student matriculated with 9 subjects and the remaining two with 8 subjects each. This represents an increase of 6% from 82.05% in 2022.

     

    • The overall pass rate, Grades I to III, improved marginally from 92.19% in 2022 to 93.43% in 2023.

    • Subjects with 100% passes. Similar to the previous year, SVN gained 100% pass in eight subject areas – Agricultural Science (64 students sat) with 68.75 Grade I’s, Chemistry (33 students) with 39.39 Grade I’s, EDPM (44 students) with 97.73% Grade I’s, Electrical and Electronics Technology (8) with 50% Grade I’s, English Language (67) with 83.58% Grade I’s, Human and Social Biology (34 students) with 94.12% Grade I’s, Office Administration (30 students) with 86.67% Grade I’s, and Principles of Business (49 students) with 81.63% Grade I’s.

    CSEC SUBJECT PERFORMANCE 2021 TO 2023

    • Improvement from 2022. We have recorded marginal improvement in Economics (.23%), English Language (1.28%), and Social Studies (.96%). In Mathematics and Principles of Business there have been significant improvements of 6.01% and 7.05% respectively. The biggest improvement however has been recorded in Caribbean History of 16.47% and Spanish 17.75%.

     

    • Decline: In 2023, we have seen a decline in performance in six subject areas. In Additional Mathematics there has been a decline of 46.83% from 100% in 2022 to 52.17%. Biology dropped by 3.03% from 100% in 2022 to 96.97% while English Literature witnessed a decline of 2.76% from 92.31% in 2022 to 89.55 %. In Information Technology, the decline is 1.49% from 100% in 2022 to 98.51% and finally in Physics we have seen a decline of 2.21% from 96.15 in 2022 to 93.94%

     

    SVN SUDENTS IN THE MOE LIST OF 12 Grade Ones and More
    The seven SVN students who gained 12 grade ones or more are as follows. Shalini Ramnarayan (12), Sudarshanie Arjune (13), Jenna Hoosein (13), Jia Jie Yang (14), Swasti Ganindra (14), Maria Sookram (17) and Virendra Dookie (19). Virendra Dookie’s 19 subjects is the second-best performance in the country.

    STUDENTS WITH LOWER NGSA SCORES
    While students with higher NGSA scores are expected to have a corresponding level of CSEC success and usually do, an important feature of SVN results is the success rate of students with lower NGSA scores. This year has been no exception. Six students in this group with scores ranging from 384 to 402 were not awarded a secondary school in the region, not even Leonora Secondary which has the lowest cut-off marks of recognised secondary schools. Of these six, three students, Dhanwanti Persaud (NGSA 401), Peshanie Motilal (NGSA 384), and Bibi Fatima Khan (NGSA 384) who passed with 6, 9 and 7 subjects respectively, did not matriculate each having failed to get a passing grade in Mathematics. The other three students Guytri Singh (NGSA 394), Basmattie Mangar (400) and Salomie Jeffers (NGSA 402) matriculated with 8, 14, and 13 subjects respectively.

    संयोजयति विद्यैव नीचगापि नरं सरित् ।
    समुद्रमिव दुर्घर्षं नृपं भाग्यमतः परम् ॥५॥
    saṃyojayati vidyaiva nīcagāpi naraṃ sarit
    samudram iva durgharṣaṃ nṛpaṃ bhāgyam ataḥ param

    As a river although flowing through a low region takes one to an inaccessible sea so knowledge and only knowledge, even possessed by a person of low status, brings him in contact with an inaccessible king, and thereafter great fortune.

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