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Wise Decision Made - CAPE Examinations
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2008-05-12 01:25:00 AM
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The Ministry of Education has made the best decision it had available. It is the ethical thing to do. Children who have worked diligently over the years, would understand that this was the only decision that could be made in order to protect the integrity of their education. It may create undue stress for some of the children, but in the long run, they will full understand. This is what maturity is all about. Life is made up of tough decisions. I hope future decisions will be coming soon. Please, Minister of Education, the next time you find yourself in a pickle, please take the time to review and analyse the situation before making snap decisions or statements. I hope you too have learned a lesson. Honest People. |
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ONCE AGAIN.............................
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2008-05-11 10:35:00 PM
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The average man pays for the CRIMES of the AFFLUENT. Who else would be capable of affording the $5000 asking price for the copies of the exam. Lets FACE the facts, they are off to an EARLY start to the age-old SECRET of MAINTAINING WEALTH, (cheat, lie, steal, and rob at the expense of the less fortunate). Granted that 10 years down the road, these individuals would be the same ones securing government contracts through shady dealings, so postponing the exam is NOT stopping these individuals from heading down a ROAD they were DESTINED to travel. It is SAD that the honest parties have to be affected by the actions of the AFFLUENT!............A NON-AFFLUENT member of society! |
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Re: ONCE AGAIN.............................
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2008-05-12 08:15:00 AM
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Very well said. From Norway. |
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Re: ONCE AGAIN.............................
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2008-05-12 10:28:00 AM
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Charming but completely skewered view of class separation there. What about those children that don't go out to parties or "fete" or carnival or anything, but stay home and study there butts off? Just because they're parents are well off because of a lifetime of toil, does that mean they're automatically cheating criminal snobs? Wow, it's people like you that say "it good fuh dem" when you hear about a kidnapping... My sister's affected by this and neither she NOR my family are anything like your description... |
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In whose best interest?
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2008-05-12 04:56:00 AM
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It is the right thing to do but the lame excuse "it is the best interest of the students" sounds hollow. It is in the best interest of Ms Esther LeGendre and her Ministry. She has to cover up the failings (no pun intended) of her department. |
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CAPE Cancelled
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2008-05-12 05:02:00 AM
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intresting... the leak is only in this country, Trinidad. |
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Exam breach
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2008-05-12 02:27:00 AM
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It's very unfortunate that the innocent students have to suffer. My opinion is that these natural sciences papers have been leaked leaked to students who wish to enter the faculty of medical sciences. It proves how far the affluent members of this society will go to give their children the extra edge.
As usual, in this country, the investigation into this matter will be futile and no one will be caught. The wrongdoers will walk free while others suffer. Who will compensate the students who have booked flights? Will the airlines change their flight dates free of charge?
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What will they do?
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2008-05-12 07:16:00 AM
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This is not right. 4000 children shouldn't have to suffer because somebody felt the need to be a cheater. Somebody who should have known better than to breach these papers. You should be ashamed whoever you are. |
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Cape exams breach
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2008-05-12 07:34:00 AM
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This is sad where the innocent have to pay for the guilty. |
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CAPE
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2008-05-12 03:39:00 AM
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No one can ever explain to me why we got rid of GCE exams that were working so well. Trying to be independent? Well, we need to be self-sufficient and capable first! We are just 'all talk' as they say. It is just shocking that something like this has been going on, and only God knows how many people have already bought their way into University, Medical School etc. This may have gone on secretly for years! Then we wonder about the quality of what we produce at the end! Just a bunch of dishonest people. They need to find those people who leaked the papers, and utterly humiliate them and send them to jail for fraud, and make sure they never work in such positions of responsibility again. If not, then mark my word, it will happen again! |
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ITS has been happening all the time
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2008-05-12 03:53:00 AM
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Since CAPE came into being Trinidad's students have been given the advantage by being given examination papers prior to the examination. What is the reason now for the alarm? Why act surprise? Did the papers go to wrong schools? I am sure by now everyone knows that most of those "so called" national scholarship winners are not that brillant as they proclaim in their success stories.Some of them even have the audacity to boast and say they know exactly what was coming cause they saw the papers.Isn't it weird that at all the examination levels in Trinidad and Tobago from SEA to CAPE Trinidaians surpass Tobagonians and other countries in the region? I am confident that decades of Trinidad students can attest to this fact, seeing the papers before the examination date.Yet we wonder why there are so many quacks in the medical and other faculties. |
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Good move by the Council
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2008-05-12 07:56:00 AM
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I am happy to hear that the Council made the bold and correct decision to cancel all remaining exams. Keep the playing field level... no cheaters.. and to those cheaters (especially one those who could have afforded the $5000 cheaters fee).. GO ASK FOR YOUR REFUND NOW NAH!!!! |
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Peter paying for Paul
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2008-05-12 07:57:00 AM
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Sadly all students will have to pay for the bad decisions of others |
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Integrity of Examinations
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2008-05-12 08:07:00 AM
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I agree with the decision made by CAPE. As long as there is a leak nobody is going to recognize a students results as being valid. Who's to say there isn't leaked CXC papers hanging around too? If CAPE wants to stand up to examining bodies like Cambridge, they need to step up their game and put proper measures in place! |
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they reap what they sow
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2008-05-12 04:17:00 AM
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Look at them now. they do away with GCE A'Levels for this thing they call Cape. is best they did stick with it. In all jy years I never heard A'Levels papers being leak, why because the source was the UK not the Caribbean. Why get rid of something that was working find to replace it with a lesser model. |
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oh lawd!
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2008-05-12 08:22:00 AM
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Who would really pay $5000 for a communication paper!?!REALLY FOR COMM.?? I understand why the would postpone exams but this should not have happened in the first place! You guys don't even begin to comprehend the confusion and suffering of the kids who are writing these exams, these exams are crutial in determining the rest of our lives: which university we go to what course we read, etc. Your playing with my future! Upon recieving the timetable for mt exams, me like many other kids, planned out our course of action to be best prepared for each exam for example: I was due to have chemistry in two weeks(say if it were to be my weakest subject), what would be the case if the timetable was reshuffled and they say i have that exam tommorow? I would be in real pain, panicing, worrying, basically a nervous wreck! Don't get me wrong though i understand why such measures need to be taken but we are really paying a serious price here!more than $5000! all we need is a lil' ease up as my friends would say! plz don't change the timetables drastically, keep the layout the same at least!And please don't let me think i spent the last seven years of my life as going down the drain just because of a handful of dishonest losers! |
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I disagree with th caribbean exmaination council
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2008-05-12 08:25:00 AM
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I disagree with the decision made by the examination's governing body as a postponement in the exams will only serve as undue stress for already stressed out students. Increasing the time between now and the examinations will only serve to build on the anxiety alredy felt by the students.
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Affecting the students
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2008-05-12 08:25:00 AM
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The Minister of Education did a good choice but not a wise choice . Won't this set back causing chois in UWI St. Agustine for there Septermber intake of this year. Another point that the Minister should of take into concideration is that she as well as the CXC (CAPE) board should hire private investigators from abroad, the government have money from to spend on everything stupid why not spend something that will teach the young students a lesson. Yes they lost the money but money is renewable for them the. Also this new exam timetable and the new setting of the paper will throw off many planned vactions, tour of new Universities abroad. The bottom line is that Trinindad will always remain a third world country and vision 2020 is a failure we should of stick with the Cambridge London Examiniation for A- Levels. |
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shame
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2008-05-12 08:27:00 AM
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well it is very sad to the innocent once, but as for those who paid $5000 ha! ha! ha! what are they going to do now? cry because cat get it back. HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY |
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Downgrade
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2008-05-12 08:28:00 AM
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won't the examination body for Cape mark us down because we have insulter the integrity of the exams |
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Exams cancelled
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2008-05-12 08:31:00 AM
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Were These Forged Papers on Line?If they were It is not fair that the Exams are being allowed in the other Islands.We are Looking like A Bunch of idiots.There was not this Breach with GCE but of Course Money Speaks Outhere and Corruption is the Norm.This is Why POOR PEOPLE will Always Ketch their**** |
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Students????
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2008-05-12 04:36:00 AM
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While cancelling the examination is a "good" move by the Ministry, what about the students or the persons found selling/buying the exam, what about their punishment? Is that this incident will be swept under the carpet like many others since it is only the "affulent" in the society that can afford it, and we dont want to ruffle the feathers of friends/investors? |
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Rest of the Caribbean
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2008-05-12 08:48:00 AM
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DOes this affect the rest of the caribbean. I read the article yesterday which said papers would be sent by email,so would that not automatically jeapordize the exams in all countries. People could easily get the exams from friends and there are even more unscrupulous persons who could just as easily hack into the email accounts of those who decided to cheat.
Yes i understand that as a student this would affect me and my performance in the exams but I am thinking ahead , the schools i apply to in the future may not see the exam as a reliable judge of my performance in school due to the circumstances.Anyway does it affect the rest of the Caribbean???
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Exam Breach
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2008-05-12 08:59:00 AM
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I hope someone is held accountable in the courts for this madness. This is one for the history books. I am certain some small fry will be made a scapegoat, I however believe this breach occurred at the hands of a top official somewhere in Ministry of Education T&T or Barbados. One don't have to be a rocket scientist to trace the source of the breach, all the authorities have to do is to trace the emails to its origin. That can be done by employing an IT specialist. Now, that is only if the authorities really want to catch the culprit who breach the documents. |
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CAPE
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2008-05-12 09:04:00 AM
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I don't think parents give their children the money, it's just the amount they save and then they create a crew and purchase it. Trust me I know some rich friends and if their parents ever catch them in such act they would probably be disowned or seriously abused. Very few parents would allow this to happen and I think some of you all are just making ignorant assumptions and I can't blame you because everyone is under exam stress.... |
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Re:it has been happening all the time
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2008-05-12 05:08:00 AM
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Whoever wrote this seems very unaware of how long CAPE has been in existence. This is the 10th year of the CAPE examination so how can decades of students attest to the fact that they have seen the exams beforehand..if this is so then they saw the Cambridge exam and not CAPE..so don't come down on CXC as being an inferior exam as so many of you are doing. If the leak is in the Min. of Education no matter which exam it is, whether CAPE or GCE it will be leaked. I am so fed up and tired of those ignorant persons who are just waiting for an opportunity to claim that CAPE is inferior to Cambridge. |
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The Affluent?
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2008-05-12 09:08:00 AM
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It is the most illiterate of people who would assume that this is a bid by "affluent" people to give thier kids the extra edge. If these people had any common sense they'd realise that the so-called "affluent" don't need to do this! They have the connections to get thier kids jobs anyway. (And who wouldn't get thier kid a job if they have the connections? Only the people who don't have strings to pull have a problem with it!) On top of that, I am a teacher who has noticed that it is not the affluent people's kids that play the most @ss in class! Furthermore, the most fetes aren't attended by the "affluent" people's kids but by people who would spend $5000 in a day and starve tommorow just so they can talk about yesterday's glory! The same kind of people who are always asking the State for handouts. Walk through the mall with your eyes open one Saturday. You'll notice that the affluent have maybe one shopping bag in hand. It is the unaffluent "never-see-come-see" kind of people that are buying out the malls no matter the prices! |
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Re: The Affluent?
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2008-05-12 10:05:00 AM
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Your slip is showing, dear 'teacher'. You have strayed totally off the topic and posted a diatriabe against the 'unaffluent'. Why? What does the issue of certain people spending their money in the mall at the weekend have to do with the issue of leaked exam papers? As I said, your slip is showing and you are venting and showing your true feeling on a totally different subject. What you said has NOTHING to do with the topic. I shudder at you facing a classroom with such venom. Hopefully there are no 'unaffluent' in your classroom. |
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Re: The Affluent?
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2008-05-12 07:34:00 AM
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guilty much? and here folks is prob the source of the leak. lol. are you crazy? i love being poor in trini and appreciate the poor hard workers in trinidad because although we are poor most of us are people with morals and integrity. i will say most of the rich ppl in trinidad reach where they reach by cutting corners and have no qualms if they chirren doing the same thing. tell me which poor parent doling out $5000 for their chile withouit asking them what it is for. and i bet you if they know what it for they rather their chirren fail than do that. with teachers like you is it any surprise why this situation going on. steupsss. continue sucking up to the rich ppl chirren dem and neglecting the less fortunate in society. |
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THIS IS UNFAIR
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2008-05-12 05:14:00 AM
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Students have been studying for the past few months jus for the exam dated and now they are forced to take the exam over. As was said before this has been going on for the longest while and it was never an issue before. Therefore the Council should come up with a better idea than to cancel the EXAM!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Re: THIS IS UNFAIR
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2008-05-12 10:40:00 AM
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And what do you suppose? I believe this was the best decision to make giving the current situation. I know this would be stressful to the students, but what else to do. If the ministry did nothing about it, you would be singing a different tune. |
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This is sad
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2008-05-12 05:18:00 AM
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Being one of those students who worked really hard for these exams, I must say it is very discouraging to no that all my hard work has been put on hold just because some rich brat wanted to secure there CAPE results. I hope that their fellow student's distress was really worth it. |
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Re: This is sad
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2008-05-12 10:43:00 AM
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My dear... how would you have felt if the ministry took no actions? Not that the brats would ALWAYS have the upper hand on you in life? Come on people! |
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She should resign
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2008-05-12 09:27:00 AM
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This calls for her resignation without question. |
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Actually
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2008-05-12 05:33:00 AM
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I heard that all papers have been leaked. Ministry should cancel all papers. |
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CAPE Cancelled
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2008-05-12 05:38:00 AM
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Wow! Look at what Trinidad has become the poster child for all things corrupt and criminal in the Caribbean. The reputaton of the CXC exam will now loose its value worldwide and affect the future of not only the children of T&T but all Caribbean children. The sad this is that it is another reflection of the growing level of incompetence in the PNM government. I'm just waiting to see the government sweep this one under the mat like the UDECOT issue. In any other country the Minister of Education would have resigned! Please so now Madam minister you have failed not only your country but the entire Caribbean. |
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It has been happening for years....
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2008-05-12 09:41:00 AM
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This sort of thing has been happening for years. The Caribbean papers were also breached. I am a student and some other students in my school got hints to the Caribbean Studies paper. The exam was hard. After the exam I found out that some students got hints from a prestigious school. This was very distasteful to hear. To know that I worked so hard and some students enjoyed benefits while I struggled during the exam. This school has gotten many OPEN scholarship winners before. I have always heard that this school buys papers. It’s a shame that only during my year they find this has been happening. |
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CAPE cancelled
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2008-05-12 10:00:00 AM
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Is this really happening??? I find myself in tears while reading this article! I never dreamt of experiencing such injustice as a child in this country. So while the rest of Caribbean countries are continuing with their exams us students in Trinidad will have to write different exams??? So how are we graded fairly?? Mind you it is not machines marking these exam scripts so i am sure the disgruntled examiners will be very harsh in their marking!!! This is absurd!!! CARIBBEAN EXAMINATION COUNCIL DO BETTER THAN THIS!! This is ridiculous!! This is total disregard for our children's mental health!! |
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Children taking after adults
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2008-05-12 10:07:00 AM
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Look at the police, stealing weed out of storage and not getting fired, allegations of sexual assault, couldn't catch a cold, and you expect the exams to be different, how are the children supposed to know any better? The entire establishment is corrupt, I don't see accepting Cambridge A levels as a mark that we can't write exams, just that as a massively corrupt country we don't have the quality of people to place in positions of power to conduct them. |
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Would this postponement of CAPE delay the release of results and entry into University?
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2008-05-12 10:07:00 AM
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I agree that the CAPE exams had to be postponed.
However, the Ministry of Education and CXC has to assure that the release of results for the rescheduled examinations are not delayed as this will deny many innocent students the opportunity to enter University this year. UWI's deadline for receipt of CAPE unit 2 results is August 18th; earlier than this for several foreign Universities.
Our children's future cannot be compromised or put on hold for a year.
Many students have already begun to secure "good" apartments around UWI, St. Augustine in preparation for beginning University in late August.
Can someone answer the question captioned above? |
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Re: Would this postponement of CAPE delay the release of results and entry into University?
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2008-05-12 10:29:00 AM
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Now, why would you secure a place to live when you dont have the results. You would only secure a place to live when you are accepted by the University whether in June, July, August, or September. First things first, get accepted.
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Re: Would this postponement of CAPE delay the release of results and entry into University?
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2008-05-12 09:10:00 AM
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You are obviously ignorant to the fact that many prospective students nave NO choice but to secure a accommodation from May or June even before the results are out. If they wait until July or August all of the decent "livable" apartments are gone and they are left with the "dregs" - some not fit for human habitation. |
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Nothing Much Has Changed
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2008-05-12 10:13:00 AM
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My oh my, how quickly we forget. Back in 1966, all students (including me) had to re-take the Common Entrance Exams because the exam papers were leaked allegedly to a girl's school in the St. James area. So what have we learned after 42 years? You be the judge.
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Thank heaven for SATs
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2008-05-12 06:14:00 AM
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The entire situation is quite sad, especially as I never understood why the government disbanded GCE A'levels. students should have a choice to pursue CAPE or GCE. Sorry to say that this simply shows that we are not ready for the task of determining the future of our students with this local exam. What happens to students who are awaiting these results in August to go on to University? Thank heaven that all the students I know already have their places at US universities secure through the foreign SATs. Something or someone gotta safeguard the hard working kids, and CXC does not seem up to the task. Its a real pity. |
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Across The Caribbean
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2008-05-12 10:19:00 AM
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Cancelling the exams in one country is not enough. Pandora's box has been flung opened and it is impossible for it to be contained. If all the papers have been compromised it is safe to assume that by now they have been distributed to the other islands that take the exams.
What CXC is doing is called damage control. They wish to appear to be taking a decisive action but in reality they are doing the bare minimum.
While I do sympathise with them though I have to ask if the actions taken aren't based more on a financial outlook that one of integrity. |
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Utter Non-sense
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2008-05-12 10:42:00 AM
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Was it really necessary to cancel all exams?its only the science subjects that leaked, why did everyone have to suffer just because these few papers leak. just reschedule the science papers. this situation is very stressful and uncalled for. students shouldn't have to pay because CAPE couldn't secure their exam papers. |
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Caribbean equality in question!
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2008-05-12 06:50:00 AM
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Well as a Jamaican parent I find this unfair, now Trinidadian students are going to get the highest grades on the examinations as they get EXTRA TIME to study (lucky Trinidad). My problem is that as it is a regional examination I would like a fair/equal level for all students to take the examinations. On a general note this is unfair to the entire Caribbean, and does not aid the already questionable integrity of the examinations and Council. As rumours circle of emailed copies distributed to neighbouring Caribbean territories, as far as I am concerned, all examinations should be postponed as the ramifications of unfair examinations will be dire to the entire future of the Caribbean Community. |
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CAPE Cancelled
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2008-05-12 07:10:00 AM
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Apparently we live in the post-colonial where the Caribbean handles its own affairs,makes its own decisions, controls its own destiny. Do we really? Now back to GCE for all o' we behind! What a shameful disgrace. |
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Is it incompetent
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2008-05-12 11:11:00 AM
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Should we all turn to SAT's now and forget this Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination? |
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CAPE CANCELL
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2008-05-12 11:33:00 AM
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what is going on with the resitting of the examination ? would the students be able to refer their results to the university of the west indies in time? when would the new exams be written? |
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Bring Back A'Level Exams
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2008-05-12 11:38:00 AM
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For years we had the A'level exams and and there were problems. As soon as we switched over to a Caribbean run exam base, low and behold we have corruption,lying and cheating...This is nonsense man we can't be playing with our children's future. Believe me this is going to have some serious repercussions. We should Bring back the Cambridge examinations. |
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who is to blame?
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2008-05-12 11:40:00 AM
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Students who bought the paper? blame them? i dont think so.. what about the SOURCE of the leak?? it is evident that THE PEOPLE IN autority are the most dishonest ones to begin with. Postponing exams will not change the situation. Somebody will ALWAYS know somebody who's going to sell the paper.. this country is lackin integrity and thats not goin to change by re-scheduling exams or making us write over communications. this is really unfair for individuals like myself who were honest in the process and tried out best... |
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WHEN IS CAPE RESCHEDULING?
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2008-05-12 12:06:00 AM
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does anyone have any info as to when the exams are being rescheduled? tmrw? wednesday? next week? next month? lol please respond! |
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This is What I heard
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2008-05-12 12:39:00 AM
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A teacher from an institution in the chaguanas area told the students that he can get the paper and but they all have to put up and pay $5000. Imagine that the teachers themselves are encouraging this slackness. Everybody wants to make easy money. All papers should be postponed, not just chemistry, biology and physics. |
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Don't blame the students
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2008-05-12 08:46:00 AM
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As a student attending a not so prestige school in Trinidad I use to hear my older friends from "so called" prestige schools boasting that they did the exact paper in exam that they practiced with their teacher a couple days before, not only for CAPE but for Cxc as well.Why blame the students when some teacher or an adult with a high position had something to do with it.The teachers and even some principals trying to keep the names of their schools untarnished will do ANYTHING to keep it that way.Now that it is my time for CAPE exams I had the privilege of attending some classes at one of those prestigious institutions and was given the option to also purchase the paper I thought it was a hoax so I did not. Those students there were also telling what to study and what not to study so far they have been correct.Now I wonder if all those scholarships given out over the years were earned or bought. I now interact with those students that attain these high grades the majority of them cannot even keep an intellingent conversation about the issues in the country. I use to wonder how the doing so well in both Caribbean and Communication Studies.I think they should scrap all previous examinations and start a fresh I want to see how many scholarships and how many "all one's" they would get this year. |
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Across the Caribbean
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2008-05-12 12:59:00 AM
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I agree! If students in T&T could get papers and some emails of papers or speculated to have been distributed... why shouldn't this affect all countries in which CAPE is done? I see this as damage control and not solving the issue of breached papers! |
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CAPE CANCELLED
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2008-05-12 1:07:00 PM
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And we want to beat the government day for crime. Who are the people that can pay $5000.00 for examination papers? The same people that are bringing in the drugs and guns. Where is the morality,honesty in all this. Certainly the children who are taking this exam cannot afford this can of money, so is the parents who should be teaching their children about hard work, honesty and integrity who are to blame. Shame on you parents who caused so much pain on all these innocent children who have to go and study all over again even yours. T&T love your country. |
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blessing in a curse
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2008-05-12 1:16:00 PM
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as a student prepared to do the cape exams im not 100% happy that these exams were postponed because i want to do it and get it over with but it could possibly give me and other students a better chance to pass the exams. |
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Re: blessing in a curse
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2008-05-12 1:33:00 PM
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A student preparing for an exam is like an athlete preparing for a 100M race. You have to "train" and peak at the right time. Many students are going to find it difficult to remain focussed and some are going to be derailed by this unfortunate disruption. By the time the rescheduled time table is announced, the adrenaline in some would have subsided and some good and deserving students would unfortunately be causalities. The challenge is how to keep the pace and focus of the preparation. Those who are not yet prepared, are extremely late (to put it very mildly) - remember the poui tree done in bloom!! |
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Controversy afoot... Think about this
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2008-05-12 09:55:00 AM
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Why is that when the larger Caribbean countries get caught committing such acts it is not red flagged as quickly? Take for instance, when Guyana cheated, they did the same thing and reissued new papers. Now Trinidad has cheated and they are just reissuing new papers. Can someone explain to me now, why isn't the students being jailed for such a crime and the country completely disqualified for a period of time, rather than issuing a new timetable. I know it sounds unfair to those students who did not cheat, however, if it was another country, take for instance the small territories such as Saba, St. Kitts, Nevis, Anguilla, Antigua or Barbuda, CXC would not have hesitated to disqualify the country and bar them from the examinations. In fact, they probably would have done it more openly, regionally publicising the matter. It is a sad fact 'sweeping this under the rug'. The students who were culprits - the thief and the buyers - should be jailed and convicted. It's sad that they won't. |
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Trinis Disgust me...
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2008-05-12 10:02:00 AM
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All these defenders of the affluent are so disgusting to me.WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE...Poor people cannot afford to pay 5000 for an exam. I am a child of the middle class and my parents cannot afford to pay 5000 dollars for no exam for me. If one exam costs 5000 then for all 4 subjects with its different papers will cost me 50 000 dollars... For Exam papers. Really...Are you that blinded and brain washed to not realise it is the AFFLUENT people in society involved in this unscrupulous activity. |
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This just stressing me more
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2008-05-12 2:42:00 PM
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usually you study certain topics that are most likely to come this year because you cant study everything . What will students such as my self do now?? how long this rescheudling will take?? |
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affluent vs non-affluent
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2008-05-12 11:23:00 AM
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why is there so much debate about the financial situation of the dishonest students? for those who argue that only the rich spoiled otherwise unable stereotype child would be able to SPEND $5000, then doesnt that same logic lead you to the fact the the un-affluent would sell the papers because they NEED $5000. stop trying to divide our wonderful country into these useless groups please people, rich poor, white black indian, these are pointless! In the issue of selling and buying exams before hand,and most others, there are two groups of people, good and bad, and it doesnt matter how much your paycheck is, it matters what kind of person you are. |
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Go Back to A Levels
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2008-05-12 3:27:00 PM
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People please open your eyes and see that the solution to the problem cannot be found in returning to A-Levels. By making such a move the bigger problem would not be solved. We are still going to be left with the same people who would do anything to pass an exam. We need to change the mentality of the people, not the exam! And why is it that people feel that everything foreign, particularly English is better?! In England a few years ago a van carrying GCSE English and English Literature papers was stolen and papers had to be changed and reprinted. Open your minds, similar things do happen in England but no, lets do an English exam and learn nothing about ourselves and nothing about our culture. What is it with this post-colonial mentality? We are our own country and own region!It is time that we all step up to the plate and become truly independent. |
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RE: It has been happening for years.....
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2008-05-12 3:29:00 PM
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The person who states the fact that CAPE has been only been around for ten years.....CXC has been around for how much. It doesn't matter how hard we try we cannot facilitate our own exams because of the dishonesty and distastefulness of our own people. We say,"We are striving to be better" how much better can we be if we dishonest and cruel. Why can we not stop and think. There are students who have worked hard to get to this point and now we have the lazy ones being awarded with an 'EASY WAY OUT'. |
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CAPE sucks
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2008-05-12 3:54:00 PM
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This is non-sense!!! I find my-self being very angry.
As a student who WAS in the middle of the CAPE examination .... and now has to wait a month to start again. We now must bear the consequence of those who cheated ?... When we know whole -heartedly that we are innocent !! ...
Look on facebook... there are over 3 groups on facebook with students protesting this. I am not happy and very upset that only in Trinidad this is happening !... As i am saying... and i have heard many people say.."Only in Trinidad"... The examples that the adults set... for the youth... now wonder Trinidad is , the way it is ... it is a cycle of 'rubbish' that will go on , unless someone takes action...
I honestly really have strong objections to re-writing the exam! When you studied the first time... and you fill your brain with another subjects... come on ??.. why would you want to go back there to that subject ?...
this is totally upsetting!!! |
