Submitted by Ned
think it is high time regional governments intervene in the functioning of the CXC. This email is not designed to point fingers at any particular person in management, but I think it is clear that a thorough shake up of this agency is necessary…
The word today that there has been an exam leak comes on the heels of a headline speaking to the CXC’s concern about the use of AI in the SBA process and the obvious issues this would cause for fairness and distribution of marks for this form of assessment.
But back to today’s leaked exam…I dare say another leaked exam, because I am quite sure that this has happened in the recent past. The rest of the region has accepted that a leak occurred…But the CXC’s rhetoric suggests that it needs verifying in the face of photos posted on social media and imbedded in the story by St. Vincent media and others.
I get that you need to be sure, but good God CXC speed up, act businesslike. Yes you will need to prosecute under the law and all that good stuff, but a blind man can see that you need to make changes and substantial ones..
I did CXC in 1987 and I could see then as a mere neophyte that a lot of your procedures were archane from the start. Yes you have to guard against kids and parents who want to get ahead at all costs. That is life and the remit of any exam board purporting to be the purveyors of world class exams. But what of the other side? Surely students didn’t leak today’s paper, nor those before. they were leaked from inside your veil.
Are there specific persons earmarked in every country who have sole custody of exams with a couple backups, and who must fall on their sword if exams are leaked? That is a simple solution , in lieu of new technologies such as circulation in packages with the exact numbers per centre and electronic locks programmed to release the package 30 mins before the exam.
This has to stop.
There is so much secrecy and perceived security around CXC’s processes, but a simple act of fraud can cause such a major ripple effect and then in turn affect the lives of so many.
A shake up is clearly needed!!
CXC probing maths exam leak
THE CARIBBEAN EXAMINATIONS
COUNCIL (CXC) yesterday launched an investigation into the leaking of a maths paper.
In a statement to the media, the regional organisation said it was aware of the concerns that the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) Maths Paper 2, which was written yesterday, was leaked.
“This matter is of great concern to us. We have commenced our investigations and will make a definitive statement once the investigation is completed. In the meantime, candidates can rest assured that this matter is being treated with the highest urgency, CXC said. (BA/PR)
Source: Nation
All these corrupt mental enslavement fraud entities that are SCAMMERS want…shutting down.
One year ago these crooks collected $420 ftom each parent across the region to review the grades THEY STOLE from the children and up to today refuse to give up the grades…that was a heist from parents and guardians who can least afford it…
Scandal after Scandal…..
…before that, they introduced and SCREWED UP the testing…they forced people who could least afford it to buy computers for their children for over 2000 dollars at SHORT NOTICE…and did not properly test the program they introduced, another failure, more distress for the regions children..
… the previous year they deliberately screwed up the children’s grades and most could not leave to further their studies offshore or get local and regional placement…another SCAM another SCANDAL….
Time to remove the uppity crooks and their crookery..
Let’s hope EMPIRE now fully understand the thievery coming from empty suits…pretenders..
The total heist from the regional scam of collecting $420 from each parent who could least afford it for a review they never carried out was in the vicinity of 6 MILLION DOLLARS OR MORE..these are thieves..calculation is based on 15,000 cxc students across the region.
If you start out WRONG, then there is only one ending that is likely… unless your donkey is LUCKY as shiite.
CXC was a nonsense idea FROM THE VERY START.
One of OSA’s many CARICOM failures…. lotta shiite!!!
All they did was to create a regional cadre of eddykashun parasites managing a useless scheme, while scrambling to gain recognition- locally, regionally and internationally.
THE ONE THING that you do NOT want to be locally owned is your QUALITY STANDARDS INSTITUTION …. not if you are seeking to match and even exceed GLOBAL standards. What you actually want is for the BEST international measures to demonstrate that your product is ‘top of class’.
The objective of the education system SHOULD be to produce the best possible students. If we come up with our own measures, how the Hell can we EVER be assured that the system is working – or how well it is working globally?
Then there is the PETTY political and social pressures for miscreants to exploit the system to benefit their own retarded relatives and friends with UNDESERVED credentials.
There is the ever-present inter island rivalry of the type that makes ‘West Indies Cricket’ into an international laughing stock…
There is the international prejudice that suggest that these little shiite Islands are all Banana Republics anyway – and that nothing better can be expected….
This CXC joke was a GUARANTEED failure from the get go…
What we have as a result is an island with thousands of ‘degreed graduates’, 99% of whom are either unemployed, doing menial work or at best doing some basic clerical / administrative duties for FOREIGN owners (who were not misled by CXC).
Where 95% of national assets are owned by OUTSIDERS…. ie, a damn 21st Century plantation.
It is a coincidence that our BEST leaders even in 2023 continue to be those of the era who came up under INTERNATIONAL accreditation standards, and who did well? Adams, Barrow, Crawford…
Bushie’s prescription…
Shut down the shiite CXC, and pay some international agency a few dollars per paper to do the exams and accreditation – and send the parasites back to the classroom to do some REAL work!!!
@Bush Tea
CXC is a regional initiative isn’t it?
You do not want these frauds, thieves and Slave master wannabes anywhere yours or anyone else’s children in Barbados or the region EVER AGAIN. Send them to hell where they belong.
They represent a clear and present danger to all parents, guardians and their children across the ENTIRE REGION.
But, CXC is RECOGNISED “locally, regionally (in at least SIXTEEN {16} regional territories), and internationally” as well.
Thanks Artax. The regional CXC Board of Governors must become more active to ensure the integrity of one of our important regional institutions is protected.
Bushie
Think yuh being tooooo harsh. The gold standards for example in the USA, the UK have been no less susceptible to these kinds a “mistakes”.
As a region there has to be at least a semblance of a body of institutions, ostensible to serve the people.
And “results” from such efforts will often be “uneven”. Some of these institutions merely derive from culture. Local in character and which cannot be substituted by foreign imports.
You can’t, on the on the one hand, indict cultural penetration, which is overpowering. And on the other, see foreign examination structures as the end-all, the be-all.
Certainly CXC offers the region developmental possibilities, to shape it in the way we’ll like to see.
But if children are to again learn what Barrow, OSA and Crawford did about British social and economic history, for example, how could that bring enlightenment to the region’s peoples?
All system are flawed. Even if we did, like you suggested, the ones coming afterwards are just as likely to have a similar number of imperfections.
And, David, CXC is a REGIONAL institution that was established in 1972, twenty-two (22) years BEFORE Owen Arthur became PM of Barbados in 1994. As such, to refer to CXC a local initiative of Arthur, is a blatant attempt to mislead this forum. H2SO4?
..and YOUR points are???
West IndiesCricket is ‘recognized’ all over the cricketing world too… and all those who ‘recognize’ the joke break out in deep belly laughter…
The ISSUE is not about ‘recognition’. It is about RELEVANCE and EFFECTIVENESS in achieving results THAT MATTER for Barbados.
also…
No-one said that OSA INITIATED the stupid idea… but HE gave it WINGS,… when he SHOULD have been reforming local land ownership, and dismantling the local oligarchs – instead of knighting them.
Owen was a mentor of Bushie too… but shiite is shiite.
@Bush Tea
The issue here is that as a region we are attempting to grow an education system that is relevant, instead of using evaluation and measurement methods that are designed by external agents. It does not mean the methodology has to be different from external but even you have to agree the content should be relevant to our region as part of fashioning who we want to be as a people and region. It is an iterative process and making mistakes does not mean we mash up.
Boss
An education system that is ‘relevant’ seeks to :
1- maximize the talents and capabilities of the graduates of the system
2- refine its top talents to be ‘world class’ by global standards.
3- establish local standards that meet or exceed best practice ANYWHERE.
To do this, you need a highly focused educational strategy that identifies special talents, and hone them to be the best ANYWHERE
..That identifies ordinary talents, and take them to be the best that they can be…
If you are SERIOUS about achieving the results above, THEN you engage INDEPENDENT evaluation methodologies that are GLOBALLY recognized – and you judge your results therefrom, and adjust the program to get improvements.
You DON’T create your OWN damn bogus measuring stick and fool yourself about how ‘great’ you are doing – when every shiite around you is being exploited by foreigners, and the ONLY shit that is growing is DEBT.
CXC is not a slight ‘mistake’ that can be corrected. It is a strategic self-inflicted shooting of our own donkey…
It want shutting down!!
@Bush Tea
Isn’t CXC accreditation recognized at top 100 universities and workplaces? What is your point?
Yawn
What exactly does ‘recognized’ mean?
Bushie deals with RESULTS.
Which top companies in Barbados are controlled and run by such graduates?
Where are these CXC /local graduates in high demand for the quality of their research and innovative experiences?
Wuh.. Barbados is currently ‘recognized’ globally too… as begging for handouts in the form of reparations, Climate Change grants, and low interest rate loans (low to start off at least..)
@Bush Tea
You win.
They have robbed the island and the region’s children of grades since the 1970s, even BEFORE they became cxc they were running SCAMS..and CANNOT DENY IT.
..not everyone is dead from that time period.. frauds and thieves.
Dont know how SHilary Shite can sleep at night.
Always got big talk for former slave masters but look at what these CRETINS and parasites do…no difference.
I must be the only idiot here for at times I see these stories and do not know how to comment. A chain is as strong as its weakest link
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I could take the easy way and bash CXC but I will take a different path.
Boys and girls, there is a lesson here ..
When you are cheating, stealing or doing something wrong try to weed all idiots out of your gang. Can you imagine going out of your way to secure a ‘secret’ exam paper (prior to the exam) to share with your idiot son and the damn fool show his teacher the full exam after taking the test.
I can hear your prayer “Dear God, given a choice, I would haveve preferred that he be LBTQ+ with some common sense”.
By now you have realized, that you have given birth to a loser.
A favorite (you cannot fix stupid)
David, ‘the old boar,’ according to ac, is a professional contortionist. Firstly, a CXC certificate is similar to a University of London or Cambridge ‘O’ level….. and does not require candidates to conduct the level research he has alluded to. Unless he is prepared to provide the forum with examples of high school students from international countries who have done such research.
We are seeing a few growing pains in a regional entity we should rally around and be proud as Caribbean people. The issue as described by the author is more to do with improving governance; systems and procedures.
RE a CXC certificate is similar to a University of London or Cambridge ‘O’ level….
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SIMILAR BUT NOT THE SAME
CXC REQUIRES MUCH MORE OF THE STUDENTS
SIMILARLY CXC REQUIRES MORE OF CAPE STUDENTS THAN WAS REQUIRED IN THE OLDER A LEVEL BODIES
RE provide the forum with examples of high school students from international countries who have done such research.
OUR PRE-COLLEGE OR A LEVEL STUDENTS ARE GENERALLY SUPERIOR TO THOSE WHO COME BEFORE ME IN THE COLLEGE LEVEL STUDENTS THAT I HAVE TAUGHT IN THE USA OVER THE LAST 13 YEARS
ALL EXAMINING BODIES AND EVEN TOP UNIVERSITIES HAVE LEAKS PERIODICALLY
CXC IS NO DIFFERENT
WITH RESPECT TO WINDIES CRICKET : IN MY SOJOURNS IN THE ISLANDS SINCE 2002 IT IS IS VERY CLEAR THAT BOYS ARE NOT PLAYING CRICKET OR BAT AND BALL AS WE DID IN OUR YOUTH
Please note, I never mentioned they are the same. I specifically mentioned SIMILAR……. within the context that both CXC and GCE are essentially secondary school ‘leaving’ certificates. I am fully aware of what CXC entails.
Bush Tea continues to ‘wax shiite, eloquently.’ “Top companies are controlled and run” by persons with post-graduate or professional qualifications, many of whom were initially high school graduates with CXC and CAPE certificates. CXC provided such individuals with the foundational requirements to qualify them to persue higher education.
@Artax
It is as simple as what you stated. Some tend to mingle many issues. Instead of addressing the weaknesses raised with CXC processes and advocate for remediation, some here always attempt to squeeze the issues into a narrow agenda.
Some tend to mingle many issues. Instead of addressing the weaknesses raised …
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Call names Boss … You mean Artax ?? LOL 🙂
Ask him to tell us the ‘top companies’ run by CXC outputs…
RE Dont know how SHilary Shite can sleep at night.
VERY EASY!
JUST LIKE YOU DO!
HE IN CONTRAST HAS A SUPERIOR INTELLECT THAN YOURS
ARTAX
I ONCE MENTORED A STUDENT WHO WAS DOING CHEMISTRY AT CAPE AND I WAS ASTOUNDED AT THE CONTENT OF THE COURSE IN PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY
IT WAS VERY DEMANDING AND MUCH MORE THAN REQUIRED AT COLLEGE LEVEL IN THE USA
Bushmsn…the titled, degreed THIEVES and FRAUDS are right at the cusp at running another SCAM on the parents, guardians, and children of the region…but weeee are READY FOR THEM….
Lets see what kind of RUSTED brass balls they got knocking together that they CONVINCED themselves and believe they can pull it off AGAIN..
I agree with you wholeheartedly, David. It seems as though some people wake up every morning looking for some shiite bash or criticise, either by applying the same tired, repetitive rhetoric to EVERY issue, thereby ‘watering down’ the discussion…… or juxtaposing news items from The Guardian or Aljezeera to situations in Barbados, while snidely insulting us in the process.
RE but weeee are READY FOR THEM….
WHO ARE WE?
WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO EXCEPT TALK SHITE AND CURSE.
CAN weeee OR YOU AND THOSE OF YOUR ILK DISMANTLE CXC, OR IMPROVE IT
DO YOU KNOW HOW CXC IS ORGANISED OR ANYTHING ABOUT CXC
DO YOU KNOW ANYTHING AT ALL ABOUT ANYTHING EXCEPT TO BE NEGATIVE, AND TALK SHITE AND CURSE?
CAN YOU OFFER ANYTHING OF A POSITIVE NATURE TO ANY TOPIC THAT IS PRESENTED ON BARBADOS UNDERGROUND AT ANY TIME?
CXC IS NO WORSE THAN ANY OTHER EXAMINATION BODY. IF ANY THING IT IS SUPERIOR, BECAUSE THEY ASK MORE THAN THE LONDON OR OXFORD & CAMBRIDGE BOARDS DID.
CXC IS NOT RUN BY WHITE SUPREMACISTS BUT BY BLACK FOLK WHO ORIGINATED IN AFRICA.. WHAT YOU GOT TO SAY ABOUT THAT?
I THINK THE SBA’S SHOULD BE DISCONTINUED BECAUSE THEY DISADVANTAGE SOME OF THE STUDENTS
MANY FOLK IN THE 60’S HAD PROBLEMS WITH OVERSEAS EXAMS AND HAD NO RECOURSE WHATSOEVER.
AS STUDENTS WE DID NOT EVEN SEE THE CURRICULUM IN THOSE DAYS
BY THE WAY, I DO NOT, OR HAVE NEVER WORKED FOR CXC. NOR DO I KNOW THE FOLK WHO CONTROL IT OR RUN IT
BUT I HAVE MENTORED PUPILS WHO WERE TAKING CXC AND I WAS IMPRESSED WITH WHAT I SAW
Dr. GP…… ‘SPOT ON!!!!!!!’
@Artax
As hinted by others, CXC should just need to reach out to leading universities to share in best practices to improve systems and procedures or hire a couple consultants.
ARTAX
IT IS VERY EASY TO UNINTENTIONY LEAK A TEST OX EXAM
IF AN EXAM IS LEAKED THERE IS NO REAL NEED FOR A FUSS
WHAT IS NEEDED IS TO DISCOVER THE CAUSE OR THE SOURCE OF THE LEEK, AND CORRECT IT
THOSE WHO HAVE MASTERED THE PROCESES TO COME TO THE CORRECT ANSWER WILL BE ABLE TO DO SO.
THOSE WHO HAVE MASTERED THE COURSE CONTENT WILL DO WELL
THOSE WHO HAVE NOT MASTERED THE COURSE CONTENT, OR THE MATH STUDENTS WHO HAVE NOT MASTERED THE PROCESES
WILL FAIL THE EXAM IN ANY CASE
I KNOW OF AN INTENTIONAL LEAK IN AN EXAM IN 1974 AT UWI
DESPITE WHICH ONLY THREE STUDENTS IN THE CLASS PASSED THE EXAM
A FRIEND TOLD ME HE WENT TO A GENETICS COURSE IN THE UK AT WHICH IN THE VERY CLASS THE LECTURER WALKED IN AND DISTRIBUTED THE FINAL EXAM PAPER, THEN HE SAID IF YOU WANT TO LEARN GENETICS YOU WILL COME TO THE CLASS.
MY FRIEND SAID IT WOULD HAVE BEEN IMPOSSIBLE TO PASS THE EXAM IF THE STUDENTS DID NOT ATTEND CLASSES
AND I COULD UNDERSTAND EXACTLY WHAT HE MEANT
Dr. GP, professional institutions, such as the UK’s ACCA and Canada’s CPA (formally CGA), for example, offer exemptions from certain courses to students who have CXC’s CAPE or Associate Degree, as well as BCC’s Associate Degree, thereby indicating those qualifications are RECOGNISED internationally.
Going to keep it short and simple.
I am willing to bet that other examining bodies have experienced a similar situation.
This is really the result of having a low-life in a trusted position. However, it is amusing to see that when there’s a screw-up, the islanders start to look with hungry and loving eyes at their colonial masters.
I still have confidence in CXC, but in the past I have found it too willing to accommodate those with gripes. My complaint is that they do not make the tough decision and stick with those decisions.
Tough decision: Investigate thoroughly and at some time during the summer, give the affected regions a make-up test. Of course, some students will do better than they did before and some will do worse; some will gripe; tough luck.
It may be the biggest scam, but it is one that I support.
You missed the whole point, these stinking thieves and frauds pretending and begging for reparations are the biggest wannabe Slave masters in this region….i have no intentions of being misled by black trash..liars and sellouts…that is all they are or will ever be. …they only impress their enablers.. ..with their shite titles….begging and petty scams…
I have more self love and self respect than …to tie my life to self haters. …you are known by the company you keep..
Besides that is all they have to offer…they are still to convince those who know better that they can or have produced anything better otherwise…historical failures…Slaves to a system that is being rebuilt around them and they are too mentally weak and backward to do anything except to accept and pretend they are major players…JOKERS….but their little freak show admirers got talk.
GP is making some sense here.
Hoping this moment of lucidity is not followed with a few verses.
It is a coincidence that our BEST leaders even in 2023 continue to be those of the era who came up under INTERNATIONAL accreditation standards, and who did well? Adams, Barrow, Crawford…
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You DON’T create your OWN damn bogus measuring stick and fool yourself about how ‘great’ you are doing – when every shiite around you is being exploited by foreigners, and the ONLY shit that is growing is DEBT
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There you have it folks the “great” Bush Tea is critiquing the region’s matriculation’s requirements and saying that they come up short when compared to “INTERNATIONAL accreditation standards” in other words “INTERNATIONAL” standards created by his favourite bogeymen i.e., “albinos”. If I hadn’t read it, I wouldn’t have believed it, but truth is stranger than fiction.
Bush man I always knew your albino criticism was just a ruse and now you’ve confirmed it, good work!
David, your friend Bush Tea, perhaps in his ignorance, often mixes issues. He usually interprets UWI as a reference to Cave Hill campus ONLY, while totally ignoring Mona, St. Augustine and Five Islands campuses also exist. Remember, he began this discussion by ERRONEOUSLY referring to CXC as a LOCAL institution and attributed its establishment to Owen Arthur. However, CXCs are essentially SECONDARY EDUCATION certificates, something which Bushie seems not to UNDERSTAND. I cannot identify “top companies run by CXC outputs,” simply because I am not aware a company would hire, as its President, CEO, GM etc, an individual with ONLY certified secondary school education. Perhaps those enigmas occur in Bushie’s world.
Music Lab
While USA is pushing for an anti-Critical Race Theory agenda it opens up an opportunity for UWI to fill this empty space with a Critical Race Facts syllabus to educate the Americas
Dub Specialist
@David, remarkable that everyone got led down the perplexing path about the leak and not a fellow touched on the issue of “the use of AI in the SBA process”!
A leak is news of course but it’s rather ‘mundane’ really and as others rightly noted it’s the type of lapse (negligent or deliberate) that plagues this type of business.
Presuming it was deliberate one wonders WHY?
Unlike the genetics example many a student can surely pass if they had enough time to review the exam paper … sooo if an official leaked it then what was he or she actually saying ?
Was it some internal grievance or an amazing tangential attack at the ABSURD BS seen by OUR Min of Ed’s disruptive operations currently !
Or was it some hacker having their joy.
Anyhow, whats done is past!
Buttttt WHAT about ChatGPT and other AI products affecting work product … I wish the exam officials all the best wid dat one!
This is Cliff Notes on STEROIDS so one hopes the exam officials have their own AI methods to catch the modern day Cliffers …
AI generators can make 2-sets of money if they ALSO sell a product to education authorities that ‘spots’ AI plagiarism patterns
… and we know MONEY talks … And BushGriot still saying ‘Boss, de sky falling’!
Just another day in the spin of life 🤣😎!
I guess that Artax is referring to articles such as in the link below. In my humble opinion, it’s a story that should concern the entire population within our region. Equally as worrying is the near/complete absence of investigative journalism within the Barbados media house which consistently under reports such stories within our region.
I will continue to post irrespective of the views of one or two individuals.
Oh, and by the way, Barbados Today appears to be increasingly plucking news’ stories from Aljazeera and The Guardian. Who can forget the link I posted from The Guardian which reported that the infamous Drax’s family was still in possession of his family’s plantation dating back from the 1600s. Barbados Today published the same story the following day.
The beauty of BU is that we have diverse views. We can sugar coat news or our views to appease a minority of individuals or we can call a spade a spade in the manner of Waru.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/17/could-guyanas-exxon-ruling-scare-big-oil-off-risky-exploration
https://future.utoronto.ca/apply/requirements/international-high-school-secondary/cape/
This maybe an inside job one suspects.
here is bird brain
re Unlike the genetics example many a student can surely pass if they had enough time to review the exam paper … sooo if an official leaked it then what was he or she actually saying ?
that you are still a moron
If an exam is leaked on the day of or on the day before an exam, it will mainly benefit the brighter and the well prepared students or and students who have prepared well over the length and breadth of the course and in depth.
also in the case of CXC EXAMS which have components beside the examination paper one can make certain adjustments to nullify the leak
re or we can call a spade a spade in the manner of Waru.
REALLY?
YOU MEAN YUH DOES DIG WID DE SAME DULL SPADE EVA DAY ALL DAY ALL YEAR PUN EVA TOPIC?
WHAT EXACTLY DOES THIS LOAD OF BULL SHIT BELOW HAVE TO DO WITH THE LEAKING OF EXAMS?
You missed the whole point, these stinking thieves and frauds pretending and begging for reparations are the biggest wannabe Slave masters in this region….i have no intentions of being misled by black trash..liars and sellouts…that is all they are or will ever be. …they only impress their enablers.. ..with their shite titles….begging and petty scams…
I have more self love and self respect than …to tie my life to self haters. …you are known by the company you keep..
Besides that is all they have to offer…they are still to convince those who know better that they can or have produced anything better otherwise…historical failures…Slaves to a system that is being rebuilt around them and they are too mentally weak and backward to do anything except to accept and pretend they are major players…JOKERS….but their little freak show admirers got talk.
@Doc, quite awesome that you only found one thing (or only one you highlighted) that reestablished my moronism!
I thought I had left that faith actually but apparently what’s done in Vegas forever brand’s one … or some mixuped hating thing metaphor like dat anyhow 🤣😎!
Continued happy driving brother … It’s great to know i am forever visible in your head-lights!🤦🏾♂️
Barbados to conduct its own probe into leak
https://starcomnetwork.net/blog/2023/05/18/bdos-to-conduct-its-own-probe-into-cxc-exam-leak/
The Half that has never been told
400 years of colonial reign. Has brought the people misery. It has left them such pain.
I posted this link from the Guardian which didn’t reach:
Let’s teach children about slavery properly by connecting it to our present
| Slavery | The Guardian
Who should teach History of Slavery ? Slaving Nations are dismissive about reconciling and owning the truth
https://www.theguardian.com/news/commentisfree/2023/may/18/teach-children-slavery-slave-trade
That’s the whole problem in a nutshell…titled FRAUDS, fake historians, do NOT WANT to teach the Afrikan population anything about their REAL history, neither Afrikan nor European..that is not their priority..did you not see how they thought they could stop me with my launch, them and their imps
…….they just want to continue circling the 14th – 18th century Slave trade, talking shite, misleading the people and keeping them TRAPPED indefinitely so they can pretend to be in charge as TOP SLAVES….and scam as much money as they can carry.
.ya int see a pretender had a whole banking system collapsed on them before they ran in another direction…these are the most evil of negros….they dont want to see progress for generations of Afrikan children, all they want are elaborate fake titles and world stage status…shitehounds….who cannot lead me anywhere..
Time to expose these public nusances, DEPENDANTS on slave systems. .to every degree and EVERYWHERE.
Pacha…the nerve of these evil minded MFs.
RE Doc, quite awesome that you only found one thing (or only one you highlighted) that reestablished my moronism!
I thought I had left that faith actually but apparently what’s done in Vegas forever brand’s one … or some mixuped hating thing metaphor like dat anyhow 🤣😎!
Continued happy driving brother … It’s great to know i am forever visible in your head-lights!🤦🏾♂️
ACTUALLY YOU ARE NOT IN MY HEAD SPACE
BUT WHEN YOU COME HERE WITH YOUR MORONIC MOUTHINGS IT IS EASY TO SPOT YOUR BOVINE EXCREMENT FOR THAT IS YOUR HALLMARK
JUST LIKE THE OTHER IDIOTS WHO ENGAGE IN VERBAL DIARRHOEA
HERE ON BU
I DONT HATE YOU OR ANYONE ELSE
BUT FROM MY FIRST DAY IN THE HIGH COURT AND MY FIRST POST HERE IN 2008 I HAVE DEALT WITH ALL MORONS WHO SEEK TO CONTRADICT ME SEVERELY
I ENJOY MOCKING THOSE OF YOUR ILK WHETHER IN CHURCH OR IN CHAPEL
“..did you not see how they thought they could stop me with my launch”
Were you ready to write a non-fiction book with a very long title to drop some lyrics telling your version of world history on the world stage about this ticklish subject of the biggest crime to humanity which we call infamy.
I was a fiend before I became a teen
I melted microphone instead of cones of ice cream
Music orientated so when hip-hop was originated
Fitted like pieces of puzzles, complicated
‘Cause I grabbed the mic and try to say, ” Yes y’all!”
They tried to take it, and say that I’m too small
Cool, ‘Cause I don’t get upset
I kick a hole in the speaker, pull the plug, then I jet
Back to the lab …without a mic to grab
So then I add all the rhymes I had
One after the other one, then I make another one
To dis the opposite then ask if the brother’s done
I get a craving like I fiend for nicotine
But I don’t need a cigarette, know what I mean?
Pacha…am sure you are hearing about the 11 plussers in their most recent starring roles, with voice note circulating….
Weee can only watch or hear about such performances, not a thing to do with us. ..boundaries..
I hate to be proven right but its one of those things that I cannot avoid. In BT’s epaper is an article “Exam Dread”.
Parents are concerned about their children having to sit the exams over; the griping/whining/complaining has started. Parents don’t mind their children benefitting from the fruit of the poisoned tree.
My second prediction will also come true: Instead of CXC standing firm and insisting that the exam be retaken, CXC will have more twist and turns than a cheap hose.
If the exam was leaked it will have to be retaken. This previous situation had to do with evaluation and grade assignments.
In order to help you understand the article if you read it, I have ‘translated’ a few of the comments for your benefit…
“Many students said they had given their all in the exam which was challenging for some, and they did not have the mental strength to do it all over again.”
*Translation: The exam was hard and I doubt I could pass without cheating.
*Conclusion: This is one of the cheaters.
“Understand I’m thinking about suicide because I write that exam today and it was hard, much less to rewrite it after that hard work,” posted one distraught student.
*Translation: The exam was very hard and almost killed this student. Without his cheat sheet he knows he will fail.
*Conclusion: This is one of the cheaters.
Another student added: “That paper was very tough for some of us regarding the fact that we had to cram everything cause our class was barely taught. They definitely need to grade us on SBA and Paper 1.”
*Translation: The exam was hard and I doubt I could pass without cheating.
*Conclusion: This is one of the cheaters.
Another suggestion made to CXC by one student was that additional questions be placed on Paper 1 if the results from Paper 2 had to be scrapped.
*Translation: I suspect that is additional ‘weight’ or ’emphasis’. Exam 2 was so hard on this student that he would take his chances with Paper 1.
*Conclusion: Not a cheater, but he knows that he will fail exam 2 again
Parents also made a case for their children not to have to rewrite the exam.
Most said it would be “unfair” to the students who had worked hard, describing the situation as “disheartening” and “disappointing”.
*Translation: Parents heard their children complaining about the exam. They knew that Johnny failed and believe that Johnny should not be tested again. They have no faith in their Johnnies
According to one parent, the best course of action would be to “find out how and who leaked it and let those be punished and not the entire [student]population”.
*I agree with this parent but this may be next to impossible. Obviously this parent have confidence that their Johnny aced the exam.
Conclusion: That exam was hard like a rock and the children let their parents know.
The exam was leaked.
The exam was therefore compromised.
Unless those who benefited from the leak are found out, the correct decision is to redo.
Saw this headline “78-year-old accused of threatening woman”
I smiled. I think I know the story … 🙂
Of course, I may be wrong, but my version is funnier.
I was in favor of a redo from my first post.
Don’t confuse me with the CXC board.
Who leaked the dope?
Were the classified test files shared physically by hand in paper form and restricted to a Caribbean Island or were there in electronic form and freely distributed via technology.
Schools, Teachers and Heads of Schools are judged by the results of these tests and would have special prior access to the test papers.
What is the golden rule about snitching?
Stop Snitchin’ or Snitches Get Stitches is a call for informants not to cooperate with law enforcement.
Dont overthink it, scammers will scam. …and then push false narratives, then their agents will mislead the people.
Man, the rush to the front 11 plussers on a roll, would not believe that is what it reached to if i did not see and hear it muhself…am so happy fuh dem..
Bushman….quite sure you are seeing and hearing..
So happy i was paying attention, cant get reeled into none a dat dey bosie…murdahhh..
“Unless those who benefited from the leak are found out, the correct decision is to redo.”
My dear friend,
It pains me to tell you that the world as you know it no longer exist. Gone are the days when news took a day or so to move from island to island. With advances in technology, an event in one island can be known in a next island in a matter of seconds.
Add to this, phones now comes equipped with camera and photos can be shared instantly all over the world. We no longer need dark rooms and chemicals to develop photos.
I am doubtful that we will ever know who benefitted from the leak. Indeed a few poor and unfortunate folks may be punished as an example, but the true beneficiaries and corruptors may never be identified. Given the love of these islanders to distribute injustice, to cover-up their misdeeds and their love of a quick buck, a complete redo of the exam may be the only fair correction. Partial measures in a situation like this one is an assist to the criminals.
I’ll be honest with you. I love your misguided enthusiasm and your mistaken belief that there is honesty somewhere in our system. Your unbridled optimism helps me to maintain my faith in that we will overcome the problems that confront us, but I am fearful of the day that your eyes are fully opened and you see the morass of corruption and incompetence that we are face with. In that moment of discovery, I’ll be supportive.
I closed by saying. I wish you well. I pray for you. May the Good Lord give you strength to continue the good work that you are doing.
Love TheO
leaked 11 plus tests are less of an issue as it is entry to secondary school assessment only
final year high school final leaked are a bigger issue as they are used for higher education and work qualifications
they say “cheats never prosper”, but sometimes they do
one cultural point of view is
– cheating is ok and admirable provided you are not caught
Trump cheated for his university exams and became PotUS
Cheaters DO prosper according to new study
Research from the University of Washington reveals that people who cheat and get away with it feel better about themselves – as long as no one gets hurt
Gotta go.
@blogmaster
Love ya bro. Might not seem like it, but I have great deal of respect for ya.
@555
I continue to try to understand your choice of music. I must ask “Are you near deaf?” 🙂
@Barbados
Have a blessed and beautiful day.
Gotta go.
“I continue to try to understand ..”
I am a sound system operator
God is the selector
This is my church
This is where I heal my hurts
It’s in natural grace
Or watching young life shape
It’s in minor keys
Solutions and remedies
Enemies becoming friends
When bitterness ends
This is my church
This is my church
This is my church
This is my church
This is where I heal my hurts
It’s in the world I’ve become
Contained in the hum
Between voice and drum
It’s in the change
The poetic justice of cause and effect
Respect, love, compassion
This is my church
This is where I heal my hurts
For tonight
God is a DJ
For tonight
God is a DJ
This is my church
Not bad ..
Your response via music is often on the mark.
Only thing left to say, what a freaking colossal mess unfolding.
Q have you become any wiser in the school of Bu
A DEFINITELY NOT
BEFORE I CAME I BELIEVED THAT I WAS LIVING IN A WORLD OF DUMMIES
MY BU EXPERIENCE HAS ONLY CONFIRMED THIS
@555
Once upon a time, comedians would amuse the crowd with ‘one-liners’. These three are so simple that I am certain someone beat me to them.
1) I like how you introduce us to various types of music. Here is one type to add to your repertoire ‘enjoyable’.
2) I thought I was deaf, then I heard your selections and wish I was.
3) Did not believe that there was anything worse than torture, but then I heard your selection of songs
4) If I had a party I would hire you as a dj. I would bring you on when I want my guests to leave.
5)I am beginning to see that you have a love and knowledge of music. It would have helped if you also had an ear for music.
6)The separation between random noise and music is much greater than your selections seem to suggest
7) A great American said “Give me liberty or give me death”. In like manner, I say “give me liberty, give me death but don’t give me 555 music”.
8) I guess, given time I would learn to appreciate your music. In the same way a frog tolerates a pot of water with increasing temperature.
(Going for a double)
9) I must be painful to play your prize selection to an insensitive BU’s audience. Trust me. It is even more painful to us.
Hopefully, there is a chuckle there
Quietly say the words in your head to vibrate
What do you say in your head when meditating?
Some affirmations you can try during meditation include:
I am calm.
I am present.
I can achieve peace.
I am grounded.
I am happy.
I can take deep breaths.
I am focused.
I am peaceful.
@ David
Seems as though the ‘exam leak’ originated in Jamaica.
Therefore, Barbadian candidates will not have to ‘re-do’ the math exam.
This is good news Artax although it is not unimaginable the leak on TikTok may have been accessed by some in Barbados. That said it would have been low risk.
CXC blunder no surprise – Jamaica Observer
https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/cxc-blunder-no-surprise/
what a freaking colossal mess unfolding.
WE CAN SEE THE RAPTURE APPROACHING
AND THE RISE OF ANTICHRIST AND THE GREAT TRIBULATION A.K.A THE TIME OF JACOB’S TROUBLE
THEN THE DESTRUCTION OF MYSTERY BABYLON THE GREAT WHORE
THAT WILL INDEED BE A COLOSSAL MESS FOR ALL UNBELIEVERS
14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
15 To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard JUDE VV14 & 15
“It happens every year in countries considered to be “favoured” by CXC”
??????
Is that just before the next scam.????…asking for a friend..
“It’s sad to know it’s something that happens every single year. Despite it being a yearly occurrence, nothing has changed. It’s just something that students expect to happen in certain Caribbean countries where there is access to the exam prior to the examination and nothing is done to ensure that the exam can be changed,” she added.”
Hope Theo is reading that and stop being misled….
Pacha, William, TLSN…
One word:
UNMASKED….
They worked overtime to unmask themselves…
It was bound to happen, only the overly arrogant, uppity and narcissitic would believe it could stay hidden forever….while begging for reparations.
” BEFORE I CAME I BELIEVED THAT I WAS LIVING IN A WORLD OF DUMMIES
MY BU EXPERIENCE HAS ONLY CONFIRMED THIS”
BU is a small sample of the world population
but any extrapolation should be narrowed down to the Bajan Diaspora
David…… St. Vincent’s “Searchlight” newspaper reported that pages of the math examination paper were circulated in SVG via a social media app, on Tuesday night, and were seen by students of at least two secondary schools in that island. I won’t be surprised if reports surfaced indicating the pages were seen in other CXC associated regional territories as well.
@Artax
It appears the CXC has taken the popular way out. It seems this is the way of the world these days. After the last controversy it obviously wanted to quell this matter. In fact Kay McConney is quoted in the paper today congratulating CXC for killing the issue quickly.
BTW, David…… although ‘off topic,’ but regional at the same time…… Gaston Browne is reported as having said, Peace Airlines will operate LIAT as a commercial airline, and not an island hopping carrier. I doubt there would be any significant decreases in airfares throughout the region, because, in the absence of subsidies and financial intervention by former shareholders, market forces will most likely be allowed to determine the cost of travel.
@Artax
How ironic. LIAT was operated as a department of Antigua’s public service. Sometimes we have to learn the hard way.
So…can we call this the CRIMINAL EMPIRE…who has immunity from prosection for CRIMES AGAINST THE REGIONS’ people and children…under the guise of mis- education..
What else… ALL CRIMINAL… have they and the corrupt leaders given themselves immunity to do…since the 1950s or 70s..
Education is insipid thinking for the flock of sheep in the pasture it is not militant or radical in any form which is extracurricular activity.
Cant understand why anyone would want to kill the scandals of the mini me Empire…wuh dem should be proud enuff that sumbody was able to identify the copiers and drop the story pon evabody…
Pacha…weeee KILLING IT…..alive and well…
The speed and ease of communication between islands, the close relationships (familial and otherwise) that connects various islands make me wonder if this leak could have been confined to just one island.
My issue with CXC is that it has always found it difficult to make tough decisions. These namby-pamby responses will one day destroy its credibility.
I can understand that logistics and costs may make it difficult to take the CORRECT course of action – retest all.
Amused that the IDB survey is dying slowly and the CXC fiasco has a quick death.
We see that CXC has warp speed for some situations and depends on sails driven by the wind for others. But even with variable speed, its action is predictable – find the easy way out.
That did not die…same criminal traitors…RATS…sat as chair on IDB board and set that up..could not happen without their evil criminal permission or imput….the people are well aware.
Pay no attention to the vile hypocritical. “not bout here” dont be the least bit surprised it was not the demon’s own idea.
Wonder when they were going to break the news to Empire, their EMPLOYERS, that they for DECADES set up a mini me Slave Empire for themselves…
….was any of the BILLIONS SKIMMED from VAT, the treasury, pension fund and LOANS that people complained for decades was missing and no one can trace…used to do it….asking for a friend.
cxc has taken the best and the most reasonable way out, in the circumstances.
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Leaks in exams occur in many academic institutions and can easily occur. Not only is it true that people are imperfect, but it is also true that the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked……..SO WRONG DOING WILL OCCUR
I find it most hilarious that the BU illiterati was here clamoring that thousands of innocent children should be punished for the evil or sin of one person……..DOUBTLESS BECAUSE NONE OF THEIR CHILDREN OR GRANDCHILDREN ARE INVOLVED (none of mine are involved either)
We know that in Germany about 100 years ago the error and sin of one man caused the death of many
We know that a similar thing is happening in the USA today, where the evil and ineptitude and incompetence of ONE demented devil is causing the suffering of AN ENTIRE NATION.
IT IS THEREFORE GREAT TO SEE THAT IN THE CARRIBEAN THERE ARE A FEW WHO ARE CEREBRATING CORRECTLY, AND HAVE ARRIVED AT THE CORRECT SOLUTION QUICKLY
THE BU BARKERS AND BRIMBLERS WILL NOW BRAY AS THEY ARE WONT TO DO, BUT WHERE IGNORANCE IS BLISS IT IS FOLLY TO BE WISE
CONSEQUENTLY, PARENTS AND STUDENTS ALL OVER THE CARRIBEAN CAN REJOICE TODAY AND THANK THE GOD OF HEAVEN THAT NONE OF THE MEMBERS OF THE BU ILLITERATI ARE IN CHARGE OF THIS MATTER
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RE I can understand that logistics and costs may make it difficult to take the CORRECT course of action – retest all.
BULLSHIT THEO!
WHY RETEST ALL WHEN THEY WERE MORE THAN ONE COMPONENT OF THE EXAM?
IT WAS LESS COSTLY IN EVERY RESPECT AND MORE PRACTICAL TO JUST REMOVE ONE ELEMENT OF THE ASSESMENT
HOW DOES RETESTING ALL MAKE IT CORRECT?
IS IT NOT NOW CORRECT TO BE LGBTQ XYZ AND SEEK TO FORCE OTHERS TO YOUR VIEW POINT NATIONALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY?
SO HOW CAN CXC BE INCORRECT IN THIS MATTER
IT IS CONSIDERED CORRECT ON BU TO HAVE A TOTAL IDIOT TO SPEW VENOMOUS VINDICTIVE VITRIOL ON EVERY BLOG PERPETUALLY AND PERENNIALY
SO HOW IS IT INCORRECT FOR CXC TO MAKE THE MOST PRACTICAL DECISION.
HOW DOES ELIMINATING ONE EXAM PAPER AFFECT THINGS
ARE NOT STUDENTS SUPPOSED TO BE CONSISTENT ACROSS THE BOARD IN EVERY COURSE?
WHEN I SET A FINAL EXAM SAY IN BIOCHEMISTRY ETC AN EQUAL NUMBER OF QUESTIONS ARE INSERTED IN THE EXAM FOR EACH MODULE OF THE COURSE
THE EXAM IS DESIGNED SO THAT THERE IS NO WAY THAT YOU CAN GET AN A GRADE UNLESS YOU ARE COMPETENT IN ALL AREAS OF THE COURSE
ALSO BECAUSE COURSE WORK SCORES ARE INCORPORATED IN THE FINAL GRADE YOU CAN GET AN A GRADE UNLESS YOU ARE COMPETENT IN ALL AREAS OF THE COURSE
“IS IT NOT NOW CORRECT TO BE LGBTQ XYZ AND SEEK TO FORCE OTHERS TO YOUR VIEW POINT NATIONALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY?”
None of the ‘queer’ options are mandatory
perhaps no category should be applied for people’s personal private life
@ WURA
One has to look at the track record of CXC. It’s perhaps one of the more successful regional efforts.
Unfortunately, in recent times , there have been troubling issues and one hopes these are avoided in the future.
When it comes to matters pertaining to our children’s education , I tend to be very focused on solving the problems.
Theo…just remember long before covid there was the Koochie Koo saga…where i was very vocal in warning people that these misleader traitors were going to destroy the lives of children and young people…based entirely on their vile deplorable actions of luring children with underdeveloped minds and young people into their trap and filthy stench of the branded dirty politics….long before i understood or had any information on Empire..
It was very plain to see even back then that these wannabes would end up exposing themselves to the WORLD…so overly brimming with arrogance and giddy with stupidity were they….but…the cxc scandals took center stage and came fast and furious after that….more highlighted because everyone was on lock down and better able to take notice…just before during and after covid.
What this shyte you talking got to do with somebody in Jamaica that leak an exam paper?
It is possible that we are witnessing the death of CXC. By failing to make tough decisions CXC has repeatedly wounded itself. And with this new issue, parents, students, and Minister of Education are all getting their stabs in. What began as an ugly suicide has been turned into a murder by the masses.
From BT
(1) “There are some concerns about the weighting of Papers 1 and 3 that they would want CXC to clarify. So, I guess we will wait until they speak to that and see what they can say to the parents and students on how they are going to address this now that there are adjustments being made to the papers,”.
Comment: The above excerpts show that some now wish to participate in the grading of the papers. Every time CXC gives an inch others try to claim an additional inch. If CXC does not push back, it may well find itself awarding good grades to some who did not take the examination.
From BT
(2) “We believe this remedy is fair in the circumstances. We do trust, however, that lessons learnt at great cost to the affected students from the 2020 grading fiasco are applied to the grading methodology for this Math exam.”
Comment: Here the speaker reinforces the fact that CXC has been screwing-up since 2020. ‘Fiasco’ is the term used.
This strong language and constant reminder of past mistakes weakens CXC. What will result is an organization that bows to pressure and to the whims of various interest groups. We will not see bold, correct, and decisive actions coming from CXC, only actions that will not ruffle any feathers.
(3) From BT
“The 20 000 students who signed the regional petition for a fair resolution of the CXC CSEC Math exam breach plus the tens of thousands of other candidates are today much more settled and less anxious, as the uncertainty of the exam’s treatment has now been removed by CXC,”
Comment: This is how they signal their numbers and their victory. When an examination body removes exam anxiety then that body has failed. Will we reach the point where CXC be awarding good grades to those who did not take the test? That should make examinees ‘more settled and less anxious. “Fair resolution”? Fair is what thousands agree to and not what CXC decide is best.
How can CXC stop the slide towards irrelevance. The death bell is already ringing.
“Therefore, send not to know
For whom the bell tolls,
It tolls for thee”.
And if they think dah is sumting…just wait….they better get prepared.
They want to take liberties like they are entitled and somebody gave them a right…well MF..you have NO SUCH RIGHT…
These types of scum i would never vote for and certainly not under their CORRUPT RULE…
Even a fool like me knows that to administer the same test in several different countries is complicated and mistakes will be made.
My criticism of CXC is on its inability to make tough decisions. Its leadership must be questioned.
American have an expression “A fish rots from the head”.
Theo…CXC has been around for DECADES, there has been no significant changes in population size….especially in Barbados where population growth is low to nonexistent…….implementation has gotten easier with technology and a TON of expert developers and prigrammers to choose from, if they are willing to pay…
it’s only corrupt jackasses directed by politicians can get NOTHING RIGHT…every year, the same story.
Besides, there is lots more to this, but not for this forum..
FRANK YOU DONT HAVE TO HIT THE MORON SO HARD.MAN LOL
SHE IS ONLY DOING WHAT SHE IS ALLOWED AND ENABLED TO DO
SHE IS ONLY DOING WHAT HER LIMITED CEREBRAL CAPACITY ALLOWS, SIR
AFTER ALL A NEWS PAPER MUST HAVE A CARTOON SECTION
THE CONTENT DOES NOT APPARENTLY NEED TO BE COHERENT OR RELEVANT IT SEEMS
WE DONT KNOW IF THE LEAK WAS INTENTIONAL OR ACCIDENTAL OR HOW IT OCCURED, BUT THE BU KNOW IT ALLS PONTIFICATING AND JUDGING, IGNORING THE FACT THAT NO ONE CAN ADJUDICATE ACUURATELY OR FAIRLY ABOUT ANY MATTER WITHOUT KNOWING THE FACTS
ONE THING WE NOTE ON BU IS THAT POSTERS ARE ALLOWED TO POST ANY BULL SHIT, WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING OR STICKING TO THE MOOT
AND MANY PLAY THE MAN RATHER THAN THE BALL
MANY DONT KNOW WHEN THEY SHOULD SHUT UP BECAUSE THEY DO NOT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE TOPIC
PEOPLE WHO COME HERE MUST THINK THAT BAJANS ARE POORLY EDUCATED AND WENT TO SCHOOL ONLY AT BROMLEY ABD ONLY IN AUGUST
Those making the operational decisions are politicians or CXC management?
Dr. GP…… YOU ARE CORRECT. Agree with you 100%. Some misguided clowns seem to believe they MUST comment on EVERY thread, with the same silly repetitive rhetoric, and clearly demonstrating they either don’t understand or have any knowledge of the topic. They use this forum as a basis to remain relevant, convince themselves they are actually doing something and define their sad, miserable lives.
Last comment …
I am a strong supporter of CXC
The leak is concerning but we will always have folks trying to game the system. I see some are emphasizing an increase use of computers but we all know that they can be hacked.
The urge to have an advantage is strong and there is always someone willing to pay for that advantage and a few will take their money.
CXC must try to minimize these mistakes and treat each as a learning experience.
THEO
WHEN O& C OR LONDON OR CAMBRIDGE WAS DOING RUBBISH WITH PEOPLE’S EXAM PAPERS AND GRADES BACK IN THE DAY WHO WAS BULL SHITTING IN THE REGION ABOUT IT?
WHO COULD SAY ANYTHING ABOUT IT THEN?
WHY DONT YOU AND WARU AND OTHERS GO AND RUN CXC THEN
WHY DO OUR FOLK TRASH ALL OUR REGIONAL AND NATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND WE LAUD AND MAGNIFY THE BULLSHIT THAT IS DONE ABROAD AND IMPORTED INTO THE REGION SUCH AS THE PRETTY-COLS IN THE COVID PLANNED-DEMIC.
NONE OF THE PRETTY COLS WORKED
NONE OF THE VACCINES WORKED
IN FACT THEY MOST LIKELY CAUSED DEATHS
BUT THIS WAS BOT CALLLED A FIASCO–AND PEOPLE DIED!
IN CONTRAST WHERE ESTABLISHED TREATMENT REGIMEN WERE APPLIED RESULTS WERE ATTAINED
HOW MANY HAVE DIED OR WILL DIE BECAUSE A PERSON LEAKED AN EXAM PAPER.
IT MAY WELL HAVE BEEN BECAUSE SOME PIECED TOGETHER A DRAFT FOUND IN THE RUBBISH OUTSIDE A PRINTING PRESS—AS HAS BEEN THE CASE AT SOME PRESTIGIOUS ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS IN THE PAST
I would love the opportunity to run it.
However, I would not have Waru on the job. I suspect that she would burn the building down even if we were both inside 🙂
I like CXC, but mistakes were made.
“BULLSHIT THEO!
(1) WHY RETEST ALL WHEN THEY WERE MORE THAN ONE COMPONENT OF THE EXAM?
IT WAS LESS COSTLY IN EVERY RESPECT AND MORE PRACTICAL TO JUST REMOVE ONE ELEMENT OF THE ASSESMENT
HOW DOES RETESTING ALL MAKE IT CORRECT?”
(2)”IS IT NOT NOW CORRECT TO BE LGBTQ XYZ AND SEEK TO FORCE OTHERS TO YOUR VIEW POINT NATIONALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY?”
(2) Allow me to ignore thye LBTQ XYZ+ bit.
(1) I do not know the structure of the CXC exam but I imagine that the different parts look at competency in different areas.
For the sake of argument lets say that PART A focuses on trigonometry, PART B focuses algebra and PART C focuses on statistics and that we removed Part B.
Consequences
(1)This favors those who were weak in Part B
(2) It punishes those who were strong in that Part B and was depending on that are to pull up their grades.
(3) What you have done is to shuffle the grades around. It will benefit some and punish others. I want to examine a student across the entire course and then decide the ‘victors and losers’
My preference would be expose students to all three areas and use that to award the grades.
(1) “WHEN O& C OR LONDON OR CAMBRIDGE WAS DOING RUBBISH WITH PEOPLE’S EXAM PAPERS AND GRADES BACK IN THE DAY WHO WAS BULL SHITTING IN THE REGION ABOUT IT?
WHO COULD SAY ANYTHING ABOUT IT THEN?”
(2) “WHY DONT YOU AND WARU AND OTHERS GO AND RUN CXC THEN”
(2) I replied to (2) earlier, but I believe that Waru and I may be headed in different directions.
(1) You have a point when it comes to lack of criticisms for exams originating outside of the region. Please note that my comments are not on the content/quality of the exams but is directed towards the response of CXC . On that I cannot budge. There is an expression ‘When you stand for nothing, you fall for everything”.
It pains me to see CXC vacillating/wilting when pressure is applied. I believe CXC’s responses are geared towards pleasing it opponents and not on finding the correct response.
my position is very clear…CXC should be DISBANDED based entirely on their decades of some very ugly oppressive and exploitative actions.
..which administrative agency, cause that’s all they are, collects 6 million or more for a review and a year later refuse to give any information to those in the region who paid the money they can ill afford…
Which administrative institution you know has IMMUNITY and can decide to screw with the region’s children’s grades without accountability…when did this become acceptable..
Finally…which backward miseducation administrative entity you know has IMMUNITY to DISEMPOWER STUDENTS…along with all the other evil actions THAT THEY KNOW WHAT THEY ARE…
They know well enuff what they have done and now others know as well.
OK THEO
PEACE
I AGREE ON MUCH OF WHAT YOU HAVE SAID
E.G My preference would be expose students to all three areas and use that to award the grades.
UNFORTUNATELY THIS IS OFTEN NOT THE CASE WHEN MANY EXAMS ARE SET, BUT I AGREE WITH YOU 100% THAT THIS SHOULD BE THE GOAL, AS THIS IS THE METHOD I EMPLOY .IS TO SEEK TO EXAMINE THE STUDENT’S COMPETENCY ACROSS THE BOARD
CARRY ON SMARTLY THEO
“However, I would not have Waru on the job. I suspect that she would burn the building down even if we were both inside 🙂”
Ya not very far off the mark…lol
Last comment
I think I can understand the reluctance of some to sit the exam a second time.
If my memory is correct, UWI had what was called a supplemental Mathematics exam which was given to students who did not pass the first year exam in the first sitting.
It would appear that UWI had the idea that if you did not pass on the first attempt then you shouldN’T pass on the second attempt. Hopefully, this kind of thinking is a thing of the past.
The supplemental exams were three times as hard as the original paper. A person had to really know his/her stuff to pass the supplemental exam.
Have a great day Barbados.
Have a great day all.
I dont know shit about CXC. I wrote Oxford and Cambridge. However, according to a Canadian who was posted to Barbados, the secondary school education is second to none. His son had problem coping and keeping up with the locals. The stuff they studied at age 14 was don in grade 12/13 in Canada. For instance, Chemistry and Physics were started in grade 12 at the time.
He was so impressed, that when he returned, he boarded his son with a local family so he could complete his high school in Barbados.
I heard him in the late 90’s or early 2000’s on Lowell Greens’ talk show.
@ Dame B
There are schools in Barbados that easily fit the experience you have outlined. It is also true that in some areas, CXC may be more demanding than most international exam agencies.
…so answer Bushie this…
If our aim is to produce world class students, why not submit our top students to the international measurement standards and have those that you described be evaluated (and respected) as international ‘best in class’?
…instead of creating our own isolated scheme, with MORE rigorous requirements – (making OUR top students look average, and CRUSHING the average students) in our attempts to gain international respect for CXC?
..and why endure the stigma of annual scandals, exam leaks, and poor administration – that then reflects negatively, even on our best top performers?
Would it not make more sense to concentrate our resources on producing even more of our impressive students to excel at the international standard – rather than waste millions creating our own misguided measure, that adds only ego value?
Shiite… Top international firms (and even the local ‘foreign-owned’ businesses) would actively pursue graduates who are adjudged to be operating three years AHEAD of their peers…
But perhaps such visionary thinking is not as common as it should be…
@Bush Tea
By your misguided argument we should retire the UWI? Artax explained to you already CXC/CAPE is a secondary effort that seeks to lay a foundation of learning that is relevant/indigenous to the region. Your position continues to be elusive to a lowly Blogmaster.
@Bush Tea
Extracted from BT’s 20th editorial:
Hear hear…
Humphrey urges young men to take lead to help develop country
https://barbadostoday.bb/2023/05/20/humphrey-urges-young-men-to-take-lead-to-help-develop-country/
Boss
If you don’t follow – just say so…
But because Bushie respects you so much….
How is a call to focus on creating the BEST GLOBAL academic PERFORMERS, as judged by the best International standards available, seen as a ‘call to retire UWI’?.
Which part of REFOCUS and REPURPOSE …with clear objectives to be achieved …is hard to grasp?
Where there is no vision….
OK…
Here is an equivalent scenario ..that hopefully helps to make sense of the logic..
There are large numbers of EXTREMELY talented athletes in Barbados- many of whom are natural tennis players.
We have a choice to make….
EITHER invest in these talents via excellent local training, coaching and resources to hone some of these talents into Wimbledon and Grand Slam GREATS…
OR…
we can invest our limited resources to create our own unique ‘road tennis version’ where we are the Universe Champions – but where no one else gives a shit, and our ‘champions’ are ‘scrunting’ poor … as are the organizers, who are begging for regional and international ‘recognition’, and for others to come over and adopt to OUR rules…
Bush Tea can guess where you would be leaning…. like our sports ministry…
But not stinking Bushie…
Bushie would be pushing for Darion King et al, to get all the support needed – and for FULL national backing (via a state funded institution), to win Grand Slams, Wimbledon …every shiite… and bring home summa dat prize $$$$$ etc
You see, REAL bushmen aim to beat brass bowls AT THEIR OWN GAME …every time boss…!
We don’t run off and make up our our rules – and then beg for brass bowl acceptance…. This is so because the basic rules that guide bushmen are ABSOLUTE! ..and they supersede all else…
Continue smartly with your ‘Galaxy Road Tennis Championship’ program bossman… let us ignore the existing ‘Olympic and World Championship’ sports that everyone else is focused on…and making $$$$ from….
LOL
@Bush Tea
Thanks for the clarification. Are these international standards the same tenets that undergird Western philosophy? One that has built its reputation on feeding capitalism; growing debt, financial arbitrage, increasing leverage and all the other KPIs worshiped by the West.
Tell us how a tiny island is to disengage from this ecosystem? The prevailing behaviour of the population cannot be disrupted by the political directorate alone, the baked in behaviours straddle all facets of society, government, NGOS ets.
It is a big job.
It is a big job.
~~~~~~~~~
Got THAT right.
…and as you know, that will require BIG BB people.
As to the albino centric REALITIES of our shiite world…
That is what it is!!…. We are here to rise ABOVE the shiite cauldron… not to run and hide from it…
Bolt and Jamaica COULD have said that the various sprint races are a lotta albino-centric shiite, with materialistic rules…
– and COULD have developed their own local ‘jerk chicken sprint’ – at 125 meters in Montego Bay…
BUT instead, they took up the challenge of dominating the Olympics and other internationally accepted challenges -under the current rules…. and cut nuff tail.
…at least until Bolt’s money get thief…. 🙂
Rihanna COULD have insisted on singing calypso and folk music too… She would still be Westbury Road at she mudda..
If wunna want to judge wunna selves by ‘economic growth’, ‘social development’ and ‘first-world status’ – in a world that is built on Western philosophy.. is it not OBVIOUS that wunna must be able to succeed IN such a world?
…as to ‘how a tiny island is to disengage from this ecosystem?”
Why not ask Singapore? especially ask about the role of clear and focused leadership vision.
Actually, disengaging from the flawed economic ecosystems is only the very first step. We also need to disengage from all the other brassbowlery that comes with the albino-centric package. However one must creep before expecting to walk…..
@Bush Tea
Your references can be probed many times over. It is easy to cherry-pick without anchoring the discussion in context but your drift is understood.
my position is very clear…CXC should be DISBANDED based entirely on their decades of some very ugly oppressive and exploitative actions.
Do you really think they will try any of the EVIL shit they do to local students WHO CANNOT FIGHT BACk, neither can their parents and guardians…on FOREIGN STUDENTS…a recipe for IMMEDIATE SHUT DOWN…
Wee should be making sure that they and their political handlers are also too afraid to practice their CRIMINALITY on local students as well ..instead of expounding with such pride on how wonderful they are to white and other foreign students…it’s the crimes they commit against local and regional stidents tell the real tale…
In other words, they only got away with treating their own local and regional people like that, because they did not know before and have finally arrived at the understanding that THEY CAN FIGHT BACK.
scummy politicians cant terrorize the people anymore…via criminal administration..
What’s disturbing is those miseducated in the 50s and 60s era are so dumbed down that it goes way above their heads that there are people in the 21st century more than qualified to competently manage an administrative educational entity…..they are having serious issues grasping that concept..
Some could have really remained on the island since they learned absolutely nothing new.
NOW LISTEN TO AND ANALYZE THIS RUBBISH BELOW
An education system that is ‘relevant’ seeks to :
1- maximize the talents and capabilities of the graduates of the system
2- refine its top talents to be ‘world class’ by global standards.
3- establish local standards that meet or exceed best practice ANYWHERE.
MY UNDERSTANDING FOR MEMBERS OF MY PROFESSION OR HC ALUMNI WHO WERE MISEDUCATED IN THE 50OS AND SINCE, ARE THAT WE HAVE MANY PERSONS WHO HAVE EMERGED FROM OUR INFERIOR EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM AND HAVE BEEN FOUND TO BE SUPERIOR WHERE EVER THEY HAVE GONE TO WORK IN THE SO CALLED DEVELOPED WORLD.
THEY HAVE MOST CERTAINLY DEMONSTRATED THAT WE HAVE maximizeD the talents and capabilities of these graduates of the system
IT IS CLEAR THAT THESE GRADUATES HAVE BOTH MET & FAR exceed best PRACTICES EVERYWHERE THAT THEY HAVE GONE
THEY HAVE DEMONSTRATED THAT THEY ARE REFINED TOP TALENTS WHO ARE ‘world class’ by global standards AND EVEN SURPASSED SUCH.
RE You DON’T create your OWN damn bogus measuring stick and fool yourself about how ‘great’ you are doing
REALLY?
WHAT BULLSHIT?
EVA BODY DOES CREATE DEM OWN measuring stick and fool THEMSELVES about how ‘great’ THEY are doing.
WHY IS IT THEN THAT THE BRITISH AMERICAN AND ENGLISH EXTERNAL EXAMINERS LAUD THE COMPETENCE OF OUR MEDICAL UNDERGRADUATES AND CONSIDER THEM TO BE SUPERIOR TO THEIRS?
WHAT CAN THIS BU BULL SHITTER SAY ABOUT THIS?
RE
To do this, you need a highly focused educational strategy that identifies special talents, and hone them to be the best ANYWHERE
YOU MEAN LIKE STEINBOK AND LAMMING AND OTHERS IN THIER FIELDS
WHAT ABOUT VICTOR BLANCHETTE AT CAMBRIDGE OR DR GREAVES AND BANFIELD AT PFIZER
THEO TALMA AND TOP MUSICIANS LIKE SEAN JACKSON AND LLOYD WILSON
CAN YOU IDENTIFY SUCH a highly focused educational strategy?
DO YOU MEAN MARICICOPA?
RE ..That identifies ordinary talents, and take them to be the best that they can be…
TELL US WHAT RESOURCES YOU HAVE TO DO BETTER THAN WE HAVE DONE?
RE If you are SERIOUS about achieving the results above, THEN you engage INDEPENDENT evaluation methodologies that are GLOBALLY recognized – and you judge your results therefrom, and adjust the program to get improvements.
YOU MEAN BY EMPLOYING BU BULL SHITTERS LIKE YOU
TELL US ABOUT THE INDEPENDENT EVALUATION methodologies that are GLOBALLY recognized FOR MEDICINE AS AN EXAMPLE/
COME EDUCATE US
EFFLUX YOUR FAECULENT EXUDATE AS USUAL AS IF YOU KNOW ALL BOUT EVA TING
BRING MIRTH MAN BRING MIRTH
HOW COME SINCE YOU KNOW EVA TING BOUT EVATING YOU NOT LEADING THE WORLD?
Me thinks the party is over.
Nothing can be done in secret with slick sleight of hand anymore., the cover up this and that to pretend they are not aligned or work with……….is DONE.
No more last blast..
All that’s left is to stay on the sidelines and throw gasoline …. watch it all come down….
@ David
… It is easy to cherry-pick without anchoring the discussion in context…
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Don’t be uncharitable Boss.
You of all people know that if the bushman has a problem, it is that his discussions (and actions) are DEEPLY anchored within a clear and deliberate spiritual context.
Should a bushman therefore NOT participate in the petty trivia discussions of brass bowls???
Wuh – The first bushman spent time healing sick brass bowls, feeding hungry people and even making some fancy wine for an oversubscribed wedding reception… although he KNEW that this was all petty jobby.
…and too besides, BU got REAL jokes and fun – listening to a bunch of poor-ass people, who can’t even get their own donkeys out of debt – pontificating on complex matters of State….. much like a dentist with crooked teeth telling Bushie shiite about putting dentures the bushman mout… 🙂
Bushie like um bad doh!!!
BUT if wunna discussing an ‘eddykashun’ system and its weaknesses – and no one even bothered to explore what the GRAND INTENT of having such a system SHOULD BE in the first place is…. or what really constitutes its ‘success or failure’, it is only obvious that a bushman’s solutions (spiritually grounded as they would be) could seem like nonsense… however..
The REAL questions are these…
1 – Is Bushie rich as shiite? …answer – Obviously, since his adoptive father is even richer than shiite..
2 – Does Bushie know the REAL answers to these complex questions? answer Obviously! – Even if he did NOT, he only has to ask his adoptive father – who definitely knows every shiite…
3 – Does Bushie even care if wunna ever get ‘eyes to see’ and ‘ears to hear’ the REAL truth? answer – Steupsss! Since de whacker get tek way …the bushman like he don’t even care anymore…..
A blessed and happy morning to all.
Over the years, I have noticed the disappearance and sometimes the reappearance of some teenagers. Can anyone hazard a guess at what is happening?
Does the police need to become more aggressive?
Just curious.
Have a great day all