The Ministry of Education is directing schools to allow students eligible to sit the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT), but who are yet to receive timetables, to sit the examination.
The Ministry, in a statement Wednesday afternoon, said students should not be prevented from sitting the exam if they do not have a timetable.
The Ministry said such students should be allowed to sit the test, once they are verified.
The Education Ministry added that unregistered students who turn up at schools to sit the GSAT are to be allowed to sit the examination but records such as copies of their birth certificates, must be submitted to its regional offices no later than Monday, March 28, 2011.
Meanwhile, the Minister outlined that a child, who is at the requisite age and has mastered the Grade Four Literacy Test, his/her papers will be marked and the child placed.
If a child is not at the requisite age and has mastered the Grade Four Literacy Test, then his or her exam papers will not be scored and the child eill be placed via the Alternative Secondary Transitional Education Programme (ASTEP).
Additionally, all students who sat the Grade Four Literacy Test in 2008 will be allowed to sit the GSAT in March 2011 because the competence-based Transition Policy did not come into effect until 2009.
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