The overall performance for the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) May/June 2014 examination continued the gradual upward trend started in 2012. This year, 66 per cent of entries achieved acceptable grades, Grades I – III. This compares favourably with 65 per cent in 2013 and 62 per cent in 2012.

Of the subjects offered, performance improved in 12, declined in 19 and remained constant in five.

Physical Education and Sport was the subject with the best overall performance. Ninety-nine per cent of the ten thousand entries achieved Grades I-III, compared with 94 per cent last year. Theatre Arts had the next best results; 94 per cent of the seventeen thousand entries achieved acceptable grades compared with 93 per cent in 2013. Food and Nutrition caps off the top three best performing subjects with 91 per cent of entries achieving acceptable grades.

The number of candidate and subject entries declined this year. Candidate entries fell from 149,311 in 2013 to 142,884 this year, while subject entries moved from 616,447 in 2013 to 603,383 this year.

Mathematics was once again the largest subscribed subject with 98,542 entries, followed by English A with 94,106 entries. The next largest subject entry was Social Studies with 50,027 entries. Principles of Business is in fourth with 34,883 and Human and Social Biology fifth with 31,450 entries.

The entry and performance breakdown on individual subjects are reported in the tables and charts in this section.
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