The days are quickly counting down as the nation’s students prepare to sit the Caribbean Primary Exit Assessment (CPEA).
One thousand nine hundred and forty-nine (1,949) students are registered for the CPEA assessment next week.
Representing 72 schools across the tri-island state, the final (external) component of the Caribbean Primary Exit Assessment (CPEA) is scheduled for next week Thursday 16th and Friday 17th May.
These include one thousand and eleven (1,011) males and nine hundred and thirty-eight (938) females.
That’s 77 students less than 2018, when two thousand and twenty-six (2,026) students were registered; one thousand and eighty-one (1,081) were males and nine hundred and forty-five (945) were females.
The assessment commences at 9:00 a.m. and will be conducted in fifty-two (52) centres throughout Grenada, Carriacou, and Petite Martinique.
At 12:15 p.m. each day all students are expected to finish the examination.
CPEA is opened to all students who are eleven (11) years of age before September 1st, 2019.
It will consist of four (4) multiple choice papers in Mathematics, Language Arts, Science and Social Studies.
Each paper will be seventy-five (75) minutes in duration.
