SHAR­LENE RAM­PER­SAD

The re­sults of the Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA) ex­am writ­ten on Au­gust 20 by Stan­dard Five pupils will be re­leased on Oc­to­ber 8.

This from Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Nyan Gads­by-Dol­ly.

She was speak­ing at a press con­fer­ence on Fri­day morn­ing at the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion head­quar­ters on St Vin­cent Street, Port of Spain.

Gads­by-Dol­ly said, as a re­sult, stu­dents card­ed to be­gin on­line class­es in Form One will be re­quired to do by mid-Oc­to­ber.

How­ev­er, she asked par­ents to still en­cour­age their chil­dren to take ad­van­tage of learn­ing ma­te­r­i­al avail­able on tele­vi­sion and ra­dio.

“Of course we know they came through a very stress­ful time so they have to be al­lowed some time for re­lax­ation they were very coura­geous. It was a very dif­fi­cult thing when you are two weeks from an ex­am that you pre­pare so hard for that you would have to wait, so we ex­pect they would have some down time but they can al­so avail them­selves of the in­for­ma­tion that will be pre­sent­ed for our stu­dents,” Gads­by-Dol­ly said.

Gads­by-Dol­ly said dis­cus­sions were still be­ing held in re­la­tion to the date for the 2021 SEA ex­am.