Chaguanas Government School produces top 3 students in SEA exams

Central Trinidad has taken top honours in the Secondary Entrance Assessment Exam (SEA). The top three students in the country are from the Chaguanas Government Primary School.

They are:

• Gabrielle Balgobin, the number one student in the country
• Adela Adams who placed second 
• Rai Rooplal, tied for second place

The top two performers will be attending the St Augustine Girls High School. Rooplal will go to Presentation College, Chaguanas.

Eleven other students from the school scored over 95 per cent in the SEA exam. Their teacher, Neela Kissoon, told the media she never had doubts about whether her students would get the top marks. She has been preparing students for the exam for the past 15 years.

More than 17,000 students wrote the SEA Exam in March.

Education Minister Dr Tim Gopeesingh said this year students performed better that in 2010. Last year 13 per cent of the children who wrote the exam scored below 30 per cent; this year it only 9.5% of the students scored below 30 per cent.