{"id":27537,"date":"2025-12-03T13:52:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T13:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=27537"},"modified":"2025-12-03T13:52:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T13:52:11","slug":"grade-6-grade-11-students-sitting-mock-exams-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/grade-6-grade-11-students-sitting-mock-exams-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Grade 6, Grade 11 students sitting mock exams this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>Thousands of students across Guyana who are currently in Grade 6 and Grade 11 will sit their mock examinations this week, with Grade 6 students sitting their English and Science examinations today, followed by Mathematics and Social Studies on Thursday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each subject features two papers, with English being an exception.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister of Education, Sonia Parag, in a message to students, parents, and teachers, emphasized the importance of these exams as a tool to identify strengths and areas for improvement ahead of the final exams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"711\" height=\"1067\" src=\"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/min-parag-edited.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27538\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.6663616575857145;width:850px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/min-parag-edited.png 711w, https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/min-parag-edited-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/min-parag-edited-682x1024.png 682w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 711px) 100vw, 711px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Hon. Sonia Parag, Minister of Education<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Grade 11 students will sit their first mathematics mock exam on Thursday, an exam that is designed to help them assess their abilities ahead of the CSEC examinations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Parents are encouraged to monitor results closely,  to guide their children\u2019s preparation, while students are urged to stay calm, rest well, and approach the exams with confidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second set of mock exams for both NGSA and CSEC Mathematics will take place in February next year, providing students with another opportunity to improve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of students across Guyana who are currently in Grade 6 and Grade 11 will sit their mock examinations this week, with Grade 6 students sitting their English and Science&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15551,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[366,350,359],"tags":[406,461,459,370,462,460,412,405],"class_list":["post-27537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-development","category-news","category-top-picks","tag-406","tag-csec","tag-education","tag-guyana","tag-ministry-of-education","tag-mock-exams","tag-ncn-guyana","tag-ncn-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27537"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27540,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27537\/revisions\/27540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}