IT WAS another tense day for both parents and students as hundreds of boys and girls sat the Common Entrance Examination across Barbados yesterday.
In the north, at the Coleridge & Parry School in St Peter, pupils from Boscobel and All Saints primary schools, along with six pupils from Leacock’s private school wrote the test.
Some parents were disappointed at not being able to go beyond the gate, but a source at the school said: “Last year some of the parents were very noisy on the compound and thus created some problems. So it was decided this time around to let them drop off their children at the gate and remain outside.”
At The Alexandra School, also in St Peter, things were running smoothly as pupils from the Roland Edwards and Gordon Greenidge primary schools filed confidently into the various examination rooms, following examination officials.
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