CXC’s Options


The Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) is a Caribbean institution. As Caribbean nationals, we should insist that the integrity of Caribbean institutions be protected. If our institutions provide a high-quality product, their integrity is automatically protected.
CXC has one main product – its examinations. There are three basic components of that product. Namely, a syllabus of information for students to understand, an examination that tests the students’ understanding of that syllabus, and correcting and scoring the examinations.
The students are responsible for understanding the syllabus of information, and doing the examination.
The most critically important part of CXC’s product, is correcting and scoring the exams. Therefore, CXC’s integrity is measured by the quality of its examiners.
QUALIFIED EXAMINERS.
Qualified examiners provide confidence in the integrity of CXC’s product, on which its reputation is sustained. The minimum academic qualification required to correct and score CXC examinations, is a Bachelor’s degree or its equivalent.
Students studying for a Bachelor’s degree may assist teachers to present and correct tutorials. But they are not qualified to correct CXC secondary school examinations. If they did, then that is the root cause of the current dissatisfaction, and no confidence can be placed in the results of those examinations.
If the CXC Board approved the use of first-degree university student examiners, then that is a regional scandal that can damage CXC’s reputation as a provider of quality examinations.
The obvious solutions are two-fold. First, qualified examiners must review all the examinations corrected and scored by unqualified examiners. Second, CXC should mandate that they will never use unqualified examiners to correct or score CXC examinations in the future.
If CXC maintains its secrecy on whether they used first-degree student examiners, and if they insist on using unqualified examiners in the future, then they would have damaged the integrity of the CXC examinations, and the reputation of the regional institution.
The Ministry of Education needs to tell the CXC Board to come clean. If they do not, then another examination body, with more integrity, should be used until they do.
Hope everyone is noticing that it went from the ARROGANT…there is nothing wrong with the grades, to. there will be an REVIEW, to, there will be no probe, to…the students tampered with the grades, to….silence…to, they used a system that they will not use again….WHILE CONVENIENTLY LEAVING OUT ALL the other stuff inbetween….
CXC is on its own, if any government tries to cover up this shit, there will be hell to pay …since EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THEM IS NOW WALKING ON SHAKY GROUND across the entire region….
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CXC assholes believe they can get away with their version.
https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/17/21372045/uk-a-level-results-algorithm-biased-coronavirus-covid-19-pandemic-university-applications
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And there is CXC believing it can lie its way out of its own even lower vibration version.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/aug/15/a-level-results-system-ofqual-england-exam-marking
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I don’t understand why they scrapped paper 2 in the first place. Exams sittings are already social distanced by the separation to limit cheating and if there was concern about the numbers, they could have spread the numbers to other classrooms and buildings as schools were closed.
I watched the video below on the modified grading approach and their assertion that equivalence of the paper 1 and SBA to previous year’s performance would work is wrong because children would have based their exam strategy on paper 2 since that is the most important paper worth half or nearly half the overall grade. Any last minute equivalence scheme would not be fair.
The only way forward is to
1) Fix the situation of missing results for exams students attended and grade on the equivalence scheme.
2) Allow students not satisfied with their grades to sit paper 2 and have the original marking scheme applied.
3) Protest in front the Ministry of Education, not CXC since they have the power to resolve the situation.
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Complete change in narrative. No one.is tolerating evil bitches, not where their children’s future is concerned.
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Voices of the future, not a bunch of corrupt ass old demon worshipping middle aged losers, thieves and parasites in the people’s lives still believing they will continue their 60 year old crimes of disenfranchising our young and ROBBING EVERYBODY..
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file:///C:/Users/User/Downloads/CBP-9023%20(1).pdf
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Not sure if to put too much emphasis/weight on “teacher predicted grades”.
Going back a few years, I know of a child at QC that was given a “predicted grade” of “C” for her CAPE II exam after gaining an “A” in CAPE I in the particular subject.
It affected her university accepted choice of degree program!
Lo and behold, when the results came back, the child gained an overall “A” grade WITH DISTINCTION…… so much for “teacher predicted grades”!!!
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Source: Nation
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Very good article.
Very measured response by CXC..
We should all wait and see.
Regardless of the outcome, some will still have their feelings hurt.
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The Barbados-based Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) has released the report of an Independent Review Team (IRT) which investigated this year’s Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) and Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Exam (CAPE).
According to the report, fraudulent School Based Assessment (SBA) submissions from teachers and leaked examination questions were among a number of potentially damning infractions emerging from the review into this year exams…..(Quote)
If this is true, then the crisis at the CXC is even bigger than we thought. It is not just about failing clever children, but of school teachers, and by implication the heads, conspiring to leak exam questions and to commit fraud.
Who were the parents of the suspect children? Did education officials know about this alleged fraud and the leaking of papers? Is this one reason why certain people get in to certain school and get national scholarships?
This is the real scandal.
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Wales’ GCSE, AS and A-level exams in summer 2021 are to be cancelled, with grades based on classroom assessments.
Education Minister Kirsty Williams said it was impossible to guarantee a level playing field for exams due to the ongoing impact of the Covid pandemic.
Head teachers would work on a “national approach” to ensure consistency, she said.
Assessments will be done under teacher supervision, and will begin in the second half of the spring term.
They will be externally set and marked but delivered within the classroom….(Quote)
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