Marginal increase in pass rate for CAPE at 0.16 % 

…slight decline in performance for maths

Guyana’s Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) pass rate has increased marginally by 0.16 percent for 2020 with a 93.16 per cent pass rate as opposed to the 93 per cent pass rate experienced in 2019.

The year has not been an easy one for students in the Caribbean who, like the rest of the world, had to adapt almost immediately to the educational changes as a result of the COVID-29  pandemic.

Despite the challenges, in Guyana 853 candidates from 10 secondary schools and 5 private centers wrote CAPE.
While there was a slight decrease in the number of candidate entries — from 880 to 853 — the number of subject entries increased in 2020 from 2019 — from 4,223 to 4,393. An increase was also noted in the number of candidates securing Grades I and II passes.

A slight decline was recorded in Integrated Mathematics from 83.85 percent in 2019 to 82.14 percent in 2020. Pure Mathematics Unit 1 recorded a pass rate of 54.96 percent in 2020 while Caribbean Studies and Communication Studies continue to record an over 95 percent pass rate.

In the following 33 Units, candidates obtained a 100 percent pass rate (with Grades one to five passes): Accounting Unit 1, Agricultural Science Unit 2; Applied Mathematics Unit 2; Environmental Science Unit 1 & 2; French Unit 1; Food & Nutrition Unit 2; Geography Unit 1 & 2; Information Technology Unit 1 & 2; Animation & Gaming Design Unit 1 & 2; Literatures in English Unit 2; Physics Unit 2; Physical Education & Sport Unit 1 & 2; Performing Arts Unit 1 & 2 (Cinematic Arts & Drama); Spanish Unit 2; Digital Media Unit 1 & 2; Green Engineering Unit 1 & 2; Building & Mechanical Engineering Drawing Unit 1 (Building) & 2 (Mech), Electrical & Electronic Eng. Tech Unit 1 & 2; Entrepreneurship Unit 2; Logistical & Supply Chain Operations Unit 2; Financial Services Studies Unit 1; and Tourism Unit 2.

Further, in the following thirty (30) Units the pass rate of candidates was 75% or higher with Grades One to Five passes: Accounting Unit 2; Agricultural Science Unit 1; Applied Mathematics Unit 1; Biology Unit 1 & 2; Caribbean Studies Unit 1; Chemistry Unit 1 & 2; Communication Studies Unit 1; Computer Science Unit 1 & 2; Economics Unit 1 & 2; Food & Nutrition Unit 1; History Unit 1 & 2; Integrated Mathematics Unit 1; Law Unit 1 & 2; Literatures in English Unit 1; Management of Business Unit 1 & 2; Physics Unit 1; Pure Mathematics Unit 2; Sociology Unit 1 & 2; Spanish Unit 1; Entrepreneurship Unit 1; Tourism Unit 1; and Logistics & Supply Chain Operations Unit 1.

Digital Media and Animation and Gaming Design were written electronically and continue to record 100 percent pass rate.