A call for students to improve their overall scores has come from the Ministry of Education as the results of the Barbados Secondary Schools’ Entrance Examination (BSSEE) were announced yesterday.
While Minister of Education Ronald Jones congratulated the 3 729 students who took the examination, he stressed more work needed to be done by teachers and students in the areas of mathematics and English.
According to this year’s results, the national means for maths was 57.6 per cent and 65 per cent in English.
Twenty two students – 13 girls and nine boys – scored 100 per cent in maths from a mix of public and private schools that included St Stephen’s Primary, Wills Primary, St Cyprian’s Boys, St Gabriel’s, Providence Elementary and Hillaby Turner’s Hall Primary.
