{"id":112974,"date":"2020-07-04T07:46:38","date_gmt":"2020-07-04T11:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=112974"},"modified":"2020-07-04T07:46:38","modified_gmt":"2020-07-04T11:46:38","slug":"many-yeep-students-are-not-fully-prepared-for-cxc-examinations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/many-yeep-students-are-not-fully-prepared-for-cxc-examinations\/","title":{"rendered":"Many YEEP Students are not fully prepared for CXC examinations"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Less than two weeks before their first exam, Troy Allen, the Coordinator of the Youth and Education Empowerment Program (YEEP) said he is concerned the students may not be fully prepared.<\/p>

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\u201cTo say I am totally satisfied, I would say no, but I think that the tutors and the students would have done all within their powers to prepare so far for the exams\u201d, Allen told state media.<\/p>\n

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As a result of disruption to studies caused by lockdowns associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) removed the paper 2 or long answer paper from the examinations.<\/p>

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That means secondary school and college students only have to complete a School Based Assessment (SBA) and sit the paper 1 or multiple-choice paper.<\/p>

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However, students sitting examinations at institutions like YEEP are required to complete paper 3 in lieu of the SBA.<\/p>\n

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\u201cSo, whereas the secondary school children enter the exam with grades already, we at YEEP have to fight for every single grade\u201d, Allen said.<\/p>

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The Coordinator said even though classes continued online during the lockdown, several students could not be reached.<\/p>\n

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\u201cMany of them are now unemployed. As a result of being unemployed, they could not afford to put a plan on their phones so when we were doing our zoom and our different social media\u00a0classes, a lot of them were not able to actually participate\u201d, Allen explained.<\/p>

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Less than two weeks before their first exam, Troy Allen, the Coordinator of the Youth and Education Empowerment Program (YEEP) said he is concerned the students may not be fully prepared.   \u201cTo say I am totally satisfied, I would say no, but I think that the tutors and the students would have done all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education"],"yoast_head":"\nMany YEEP Students are not fully prepared for CXC examinations - Antigua News Room<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/many-yeep-students-are-not-fully-prepared-for-cxc-examinations\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Many YEEP Students are not fully prepared for CXC examinations\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Less than two weeks before their first exam, Troy Allen, the Coordinator of the Youth and Education Empowerment Program (YEEP) said he is concerned the students may not be fully prepared.   \u201cTo say I am totally satisfied, I would say no, but I think that the tutors and the students would have done all […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/many-yeep-students-are-not-fully-prepared-for-cxc-examinations\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Antigua News Room\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/antiguanewsroom\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-07-04T11:46:38+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/CXC-Exams.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1100\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"734\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Editor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@AntiguaNewsRoom\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@AntiguaNewsRoom\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Editor\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/many-yeep-students-are-not-fully-prepared-for-cxc-examinations\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/many-yeep-students-are-not-fully-prepared-for-cxc-examinations\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Editor\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#\/schema\/person\/36cac05ef6398fe56ae3e6317f8535c5\"},\"headline\":\"Many YEEP Students are not fully prepared for CXC examinations\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-07-04T11:46:38+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-07-04T11:46:38+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/many-yeep-students-are-not-fully-prepared-for-cxc-examinations\/\"},\"wordCount\":245,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/many-yeep-students-are-not-fully-prepared-for-cxc-examinations\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1100\/h:734\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/CXC-Exams.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Education\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/many-yeep-students-are-not-fully-prepared-for-cxc-examinations\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/many-yeep-students-are-not-fully-prepared-for-cxc-examinations\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/many-yeep-students-are-not-fully-prepared-for-cxc-examinations\/\",\"name\":\"Many YEEP Students are not fully prepared for CXC examinations - 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