CXC Paper Leak: 2023 Math Exams to be graded with Paper 1 & SBA
The council confirmed this in a statement released today, May 19, 2023, and added that it has been in constant contact with regional Ministries of Education since this information came to light with investigations concluded.
“The security measures which CXC® has put in place has led to us locating the country as Jamaica and the examination center where the leak originated. In discussion with the Ministry of Education and Youth, the matter will be dealt with following CXC’s security protocols,” the statement added.
Paper 1 & SBA's to determine grade - CXC
On the way forward, CXC and regional Ministries of Education said they recognize that candidates have spent months preparing for their Mathematics Paper 02 examinations and the news of the security breach (leak) of the examination has caused much anxiety and concern.
“As a result of the breach and the compromise of the examination, as well as consideration for the mental health and wellbeing of our candidates, timely release of results, and matriculation requirements, CXC® has determined that for this examination the modified approach will be used to award fair and valid grades.
The Examination body added that the modified approach entails assessment of the School Based Assessment (SBA) or Paper 032 (Alternative to SBA) for private candidates; and Paper 01
CXC added that the decision was communicated to the regional Ministries of Education via a meeting held this morning May 19, 2023.
Efforts to reach the Minister for Education, Hon Sharie B. deCastro (AL), for a comment were futile.
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6 Responses to “CXC Paper Leak: 2023 Math Exams to be graded with Paper 1 & SBA”
They are skilled in muck up. Always!.
Usain Bolt their local and international hero is sadly their victim.
No good deed go unpunished in that cursed place.
Proposed guest column or letter to the editor: *Media statement on the announced remedy to the CXC CSEC maths exam security breach*
*Media statement on the announced remedy to the CXC CSEC maths exam security breach*
The 20,000 students who signed the regional petition for a fair resolution of the CXC CSEC Maths exam breach, plus the tens of thousands of other candidates, are today much more settled and less anxious, as the uncertainty of the exam's treatment has now been removed by CXC.
The uncertain limbo of waiting for advice in the middle of already stressful exams in the pandemic era only added to the mental health strain on our children.
Social media access makes it almost impossible to definitively guage the leak's extent. However, 99% of Peters should not have been made to pay for the 1% of the unethical Paulas by an exam resit. The solution (Paper 1/multiple choice + SBA) is one *fair* to the majority of candidates: our hardworking ethical children.
We thank Minister McConney for her statement yesterday re the apparent CXC exam breach. I believe she was the first Minister of Education in the region to do so.
Minister McConney acknowledged that, as parents, we have the responsibility and the right to advocate for and protect our children, without fear or favour. We parents have the right to respectfully ask questions in our children's best interests, and we thank her for her equally respectful response.
We also thank the executive of CXC and the regional Ministers of Education for their responsive communication today, which clearly demonstrated a focus on the mental well-being of the students, while maintaining reasonable pedagogical rigour in the solution.. We believe this remedy is fair in the circumstances. We do trust however that lessons learnt, at great cost to the affected students, from the 2020 Grading Fiasco, are applied to the grading methodology for this Maths exam.
Rapid response/responsiveness are essental components of crisis management and communications.
'Speculating and rumour' is an inevitable human reaction with festers in the vacuum created by the lack of official communication.
We look forward to, at the earliest opportunity, a public report on CXC's thorough official investigation into what caused the security breach, as well as identification and communication of remedies thereto. There seems to have been too frequent exam security breaches every few years, and the public will need assurance that full electronic testing doesn't make that risk even greater.
We also await confirmation that no other past exams' integrity was compromised to allay student and teacher concern in that regard. CXC also should give further detailed public assurance that security has been tightened for future exams.
Our public education system, especially as Barbados moves towards transformational education reform, cannot afford a further erosion of public confidence and trust.
We thank our media partners for enabling us to hold those in authority to account in the public domain, always in a constructive manner for the betterment of our children, our society and our region.
Paula-Anne Moore
Parent Advocate
Spokesperson/Coordinator
The Group of Concerned Parents, Barbados
The Caribbean Coalition for Exam Redress