March 2, 2021

CXC Offers Deferral Option For Students Due To Sit Exams This Year

By Newsroom

CSEC and CAPE students who are due to sit their exams in June/July of this year now have the option of deferring to 2022.

This was one of the major decisions coming out of a meeting held with the Caribbean Examinations Council, CXC, and Ministers of Education from around the region.

“Candidates experiencing hardships may seek approval from their school (in-school candidates) or from the CXC Local Registrar (private candidates), to defer their examinations until the January CSEC® 2022 sitting or May/June CAPE®, CSEC® or CCSCLC® 2022 sitting, for any subject offered for which they were previously registered, in the June/July 2021 examination session. Candidates must indicate their intent for deferral by 1 May 2021. Once an indication of intent to defer to an alternative exam cycle is received, the candidate’s current registration will be put on hold,” CXC said in a statement on Tuesday.

It further clarified: “Submitted SBAs and scores can also be deferred for use in the next examination sitting. There will be no fee charged for the deferral of examinations, even if the deferred subjects are spanned across the January and May/June 2022 examination sessions.”

The regional examination body said while there have been calls for CXC to consider the revision of requirements for syllabus coverage due to disruptions brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, “it was determined that any change, at any level, to the programme of studies offered by CXC can prove disadvantageous to stakeholders and impact CXC’s ability to compare results across years in terms of equivalence of certification.”

Instead, there is a one-month delay in the schedule of this year’s examinations which CXC says will allow for additional instructional time as teachers and students prepare.

Additionally, submission deadlines for SBAs have been extended by one month.

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