A to­tal of 18,797 stu­dents wrote the Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA) in 2023, of which 50.68% (9,527) were male and 49.32% (9,270) were fe­male.

Ac­cord­ing to the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion, in 2023, the mean Math­e­mat­ics score is 50.4, Eng­lish Lan­guage Arts Writ­ing, 53.4 and Eng­lish Lan­guage Arts score is 61.6.

"These mean scores in 2023, when com­pared to 2022, show a marked im­prove­ment in the per­for­mance of stu­dents. In 2022, the mean Math­e­mat­ics score was 41.941. Sim­i­lar­ly, the mean Eng­lish Lan­guage Arts Writ­ing score was 44.339 and the mean Eng­lish Lan­guage Arts score was 44.397."

Ac­cord­ing to Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter, Dr Nyan Gads­by Dol­ly, “The im­prove­ment in stu­dent per­for­mance at SEA 2023 was ex­pect­ed, due to the phys­i­cal re­turn of stu­dents to the class­room, and the in­ter­ven­tions of the Min­istry in ad­dress­ing learn­ing loss through the im­ple­men­ta­tion of

the Re­me­di­al Ed­u­ca­tion Pro­gram in 80 Pri­ma­ry Schools."

The per­for­mance of stu­dents in the SEA is an­a­lyzed ac­cord­ing to the per­cent­age of stu­dents at­tain­ing three im­por­tant thresh­olds, the per­cent­age of stu­dents scor­ing above 50%, 30% and be­low and above 90%.

The Min­istry says in 2023, the per­cent­age of stu­dents scor­ing above 50% on the SEA was 58.06% ver­sus 37.06% in 2022 and 52.49% in 2021.

Ad­di­tion­al­ly, in 2023 the per­cent­age of stu­dents scor­ing 30% or be­low de­creased to 13.55% when com­pared to 2022 (27.81%) and 17.7% in 2021.

The per­cent­age of stu­dents scor­ing above 90% in 2023 is 2.11%, which in­di­cates an in­crease from 2022 which was 0.47%.