The Caribbean Examinations Council [CXC] is now deliberating on the remedies to be implemented for students who were unable to sit recent exams.
Students of Campion College, Kingston College, both in the Corporate Area, and Holmwood Technical High School in Manchester, were forced to abandon their exams following bomb threats.
In another case, the weather intervened when heavy rains in St Thomas inundated Hordley Crossing which resulted in a number of students being unable to write their exams at St Thomas Technical High
Chief Executive Officer and Registrar of CXC Dr. Wayne Wesley says there are available options to address the students' situation.
He explained that CXC has a "standard protocol", which guides the response of the agency, when exams are disrupted by natural disasters and other situations that are "totally out of their control."
The guiding principle is that the Examinations Council must "ensure those students are not disenfranchised."
Achieving that goal might include "a rescheduled paper, re-taking another paper, or using existing papers that hey have completed, to arrive at the particular outcome for those students, and that outcome would always be interest of the students."
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