The Ministry of Education, Human Resource Planning, Vocational Training and National Excellence will administer the annual Grade Six National Assessment (G6NA) today, Thursday, May 29, and Friday, May 30, 2025.
According to Education Officer for Measurement and Evaluation, Krishna Robin, a total of 750 candidates, 373 girls and 377 boys, will write the exams across 58 centers around the island.
“The exams are set to begin at 7:45 AM,” she said.
She continued, “All exams this year will be paper-based.”
Robin said today candidates will write the Language Arts paper and Social Sciences selected response papers for multiple choice, with the Language Arts having an additional composition aspect.
“On Friday, May 30, candidates will write the Mathematics and Science and Technology selected response papers,” Robin explained.
Meanwhile, Robin advises parents that they are not allowed at the testing centers while the examinations are in progress.
“We are requesting that parents or anyone not directly involved with the administration of the exams to stay clear of the compounds of any testing center while the examinations are in progress,” she advised.
Additionally, Robin advises parents to allow their children to relax.
“The Ministry of Education, Human Resource Planning, Vocational Training and National Excellence wishes each and every candidate success in the upcoming examinations,” she noted.
Krishna Robin advises parents to allow their children to relax!
I will go further: grooming a children from the age of nine for this pointless outdated examination ranks, in my mind, as a serious form of child abuse.
My DNO Commentary “Life Beyond the Common Entrance” delves deeper into the issue.
https://dominicanewsonline.com/news/homepage/features/commentary/commentary-life-beyond-the-common-entrance/
I wish everyone well…However, we need to redefine our education system. Tailor it to our needs, because that’s the way the world is going. Like TETE KALBAS, foul tongue, Austrie said, Dominica is tired of being LAST in everything.We will always have a need for academics because we need good doctors, architects, mathematicians, but it’s shameful that in 2025, a child graduates secondary school without at least 2 skilled subjects.
For the children’s sake teach ETHICS as well, because down the road, long after i am dead, they don’t deserve to have brazen, shameless and greedy THIEVES or scoundrels as their leaders in government. Lessons on our constitution is fundamental, example their right to protest and assemble. They deserve a better Dominica than the one i am currently experiencing.
MEME
MEME glad you’re back! I fully endorse everything you have espoused. Vocational education just as important as academics.
The Chinese and Japanese from the time their students enter kindergarten they learn hard and soft skills for the first three or four years. No wonder their society is light years ahead of us infrastructurally and developmentally.
You should be appointed the honorary Minister of Education because of your abundance of innovative, creative and originative and ideas. Respect!
The present education system needs to be revamped yesterday. It has lost most of its relevance in this age of technological development. It’s anachronistic.
The present education system is mostly based on rote and recall. It causes the students to rely on memory too much. It does not enhance critical thinking skills, analysis or creativity.
This system forces the teachers to teach for the students to pass exams not to tap into and develop the child’s innate creativity, innovativeness and imagination.