Four students named in top three positions for CSEC 2023

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D'Aundre Samuel - Saint Joseph’s Academy

Four students named in top three positions for CSEC 2023

 

Saint John’s, Antigua and Barbuda –Thursday 1st February, 2024 ………Director of Education, Clare Browne, is pleased to announce the names of the students who secured the top three positions in the June, 2023 sitting of the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate Examinations (CSEC) that were administered by the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC).

They are:

  1. D’Aundre Samuel – Saint Joseph’s Academy – 23 subjects – 21 I’s and 2 II’s

 

  1. Adrian Judnarine – Saint Joseph’s Academy –  26 subjects – 19 I’s and 7 II’s

 

  1. Stephanie Archibald and Tianna Bretney – Baptist Academy of Antigua –  20 subjects each – 18 I’s and 2 II’s each

Director of Education, Clare Browne has offered congratulations to the students, their parents and their schools, adding, “We beseech that these students continue to be ambassadors of excellence”.

Due to the close results from the 2023 examinations, several candidates queried their grades with the Caribbean Examinations Council, which caused a delay in the announcement of the top students.

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11 COMMENTS

  2. I salute these kids. Awesome performance in this day and age where distractions are many. The parents and teachers too must be commended. Keep up the good work all!

  3. I wish to commend the students and all those who help in their educational journey. Congratulations 🎈🎊🎉

  4. May not make sense to you but if doing all those subjects help you get a future scholarship then why not? Colleges are expensive now. Not to downplay the university of the West Indies too but there is no real benefit of going there as job opportunities afterwards in Antigua with a degree is the same of not having a degree. I’d get my kid to an international school with a real chance of getting a good job, feeling valued, and have the opportunity for constant promotion. Which employer in Antigua possess those qualities?

  5. 23 passes? Is this for parents bragging rights? Let’s hope this kid plays some sort of sport or does extra-curricular activities, or has social skills.

    No school nor parent should encourage any student to take this many subjects. It is abuse.

    It also goes to show how watered down and wishy-washy the CSEC exams are today.

    Heads full information that smells of cut and paste, and passes got by SBA marks done by parents and hired help. Constantly at the books, no washing dishes, no cleaning up the yard, no fighting for seat on the bus but picked up after school, etc.

    Maybe the youngster is by nature a bright boy and would have passed anyway, but the 23 is over the top. Unless he and the school is trying to better their own record. Well tek win.

    Congrats to D’Aundre and advice to him to get involved in being a sociable person, a real person. That is what counts most.

  6. How do you know he’s not a sociable person? You’re assuming he isn’t because he’s smart? It just shows he has time management if anything at all. Look at his smile. He looks happy. Again, scholarships are given to top performers and education is expensive. He will survive.

  7. These 4 students has more grade 1s than Jennings, All Saints, Pares and Clarehall combined in the last 10 years. Shhhit.

  8. @ Hameed
    The students in the private schools who are paying plenty money to the owners get full compliments of government’s text books. They get it all. Their parents are well off but they get free books.

    If Government focuses in terms on making sure the government secondary schools get books and especially good teachers, this could change the outlook in terms of results.

    It is a shame to acknowledge this sort of thing. Let us be real and honest. Though there are other extenuating circumstances for such poor results,

    if we are honest, we have to admit that the GOVERNMENT SECONDARY SCHOOLS ARE TREATED HORRIBLY

    when it comes to government distribution of books and supplies. Please do not include Grammar School and Girls High School.

    THIS MUST STOP. IT HAS TO STOP

    The students whose parents can afford these should pay for them. It is time we fix this problem or it will come back to bite all of us hard.
    Lastly, some of the teachers should not be in a classroom. How they got their job is a big question. OK. Take them and train them. Some of them in the private schools are not so good either. But they have more resources to do their jobs.

    • I do not agree that the private schools should not get free books. The parents of these schools may be even paying more for education levy since they are earning more as you claim. So why shouldn’t their kids get books?

      But I do agree with some of the earlier writers that the standard might have fallen because I don’t these students could pass 15 GCE exams with grade 1 in the same sitting. I sound like only now the Caribbean have scholars.

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