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Marlon Morgan, Senior Technical Coordinator in the Ministry of Education, speaking on RJR's call-in programme 'Hotline' on Thursday
The Education Ministry is maintaining that information it presented last month on students' scores in the June mock pilot Performance Task Exams was accurate.
The defence from the ministry follows Tuesday's presentation of the breakdown of the scores by State Minister for Education Floyd Green in the House of Representatives.
The numbers revealed that a vast majority of students did not achieve mastery in the subjects in which they were tested.
This contrasted with the ministry's earlier report that 83 per cent of students met the standards for English Language and 22 per cent for Science.
However, in a media release Thursday afternoon, the ministry noted that there are three reporting categories - standard met, standard nearly met and standard not met.
It said it had reported a combination of the standard met and standard nearly met as students obtaining a satisfactory performance.
It said Tuesday's disaggregation of the three reporting categories was done based on the questions that were asked in the House, which required specific information.
In the meantime, Marlon Morgan, Senior Technical Coordinator in the Ministry of Education, explained that the ministry is aware critical thinking has been a weakness of students over the years and this was reflected in the mock test results.
He said despite the results of the PEP mock exam, the ministry is confident students will improve in time for the official test.