It’s a wrap for CPEA 2025

by: Eldonté Samuel

CPEA is over. Now, the more than 1,000 primary school students who wrote the exam can use this extended summer break for leisure or to prepare for the start of secondary school in September.

Thursday, May 15, marked the end of this year’s Caribbean Primary Exit Assessment (CPEA) exams, which involved 1,691 primary school students across 17 different centres in SVG.

SEARCHLIGHT visited two of these centres- St Martin’s Secondary School, and St. Joseph Convent, Kingstown, which hosted students from the Kingstown Anglican, Lodge Village Government, St Mary’s Roman Catholic, and Windsor Primary schools. We spoke with some of them in the presence of their parents and teachers, and most expressed optimism about their results in Maths, Language, and the Science papers. Liam Nichols from Windsor Primary School was one of those looking forward to his results from both the Science and Mathematics papers after putting in satisfactory work.

“Both of the tests were easy, but some of the questions were not taught in school. Some of them were kind of tricky, [nonetheless] the rest of the tests were easy,” Nichols expressed.

He recalled one question from the Science paper, “What type of rock would you find after a volcanic eruption? The options were igneous; sedimentary; and metamorphic. I chose sedimentary, I think that’s the correct answer.

They are formed from volcanic eruptions,” he explained.

Though he could not recall any questions from the Mathematics paper, he described it as slightly challenging, but expressed confidence in his performance.

Windsor Primary School’s Science and Mathematics teacher, Suzannie Boyea, said that teaching this year’s CPEA class did not present much difficulty since the students were pre-equipped with knowledge from grade five.

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