The Caribbean Examinations Council has released their modified grading approach, following the leak of the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate’s Mathematics Paper II earlier in June this year.
That incident led to the exam paper to be scrapped.
In an online briefing on Thursday, officials stated that Paper I, which initially carried 30 per cent of the weight, will now carry 60 per cent, while Paper III, or the School Based Assessment (SBA), which carried 20 per cent, will carry 40 per cent instead.
The Council also revealed that systems have been put in place to prevent leaks in the future.
CXC’s Director of Operations Dr Nicole Manning, said: “We have new systems in terms of the quality requirements and that’s something that will be shared in the future. Where we have a breach, it must be noted that we have changes in the utilisation of those centres in the future … But CXC is implementing new systems, and more so the electronic testing is where we want to go and where we have been going.”
“One of the first and important points to make is the move to electronic testing, it is a strategy that CXC has started, in terms of utilisation and we have seen benefits from it. As well as, we have the collaboration with our local registrars which we continue to enhance, and strengthen as we would have done in the past also,” she added.
The Council also intends to stop utilising centres where breaches occurred.
The leak, which originated in Jamaica, forced CXC to discontinue Paper II in all 19 territories. Some stakeholders were confused as to why all countries had to pay the price, even though the leak was in one country.
Manning said the breach was still being investigated by the authorities.
CSEC results are expected to be released on August 24th.