A total of 1,006 students—551 boys and 455 girls sat the SEA examination on Thursday in Tobago. Among them 34 private candidates, all of whom were accommodated across 40 examination centres.
Joy, balloons, hugs, kisses, tears, smiles, banners and relief in Tobago, as the SEA examination concluded.
Cameraman Derrick Hamlet and reporter Elizabeth Williams were there and have this report.
00:00Our first stop, the Scarborough Methodist Primary School, where eager parents were gathered as their children exited the school's gate to be greeted with hugs, kisses, balloons, and one group even had a banner of congratulations waiting.
00:15Happy birthday to you!
00:18What's your name?
00:19Naeem Sky Baines.
00:21How was the exam for you?
00:23The exam was easy. Most of the sums was easy.
00:27Mommy, tell us, how do you feel it's all over?
00:31Well, relieved.
00:32Oh, you're crying.
00:33You're crying.
00:34I know. I know we worked hard. I know Naeem will perform well, and I'm super proud of him.
00:40How was the exam for you?
00:42It was good. It wasn't too challenging. It was pretty easy, and thanks to God I was able to finish.
00:49Mommy, how do you feel that it's all over?
00:52I'm glad that it is all over. He will have worked hard over the years.
00:56So, they will have been the batch that we will have done with COVID, from second year, go right up to standard three.
01:04So, I'm glad that it is all over, and they can now be free to enjoy their holiday, their Easter holidays.
01:12Was it a lot of sleepless nights? Because I know as parents, you know, we have a lot of lessons.
01:17Yes, they will have had to do a lot of practice tests.
01:19And I want to say also thanks to Ms. James, which will have been his standard four and standard five teacher,
01:25and the school that he will have attended before, which was the Tobago International Academy.
01:30Meantime, at the St. Andrews Anglican School, similar joy with students.
01:36Happy that the SEA examination was over.
01:39I want to tell you something.
01:41You want to tell me something?
01:42Yeah, miss, I want to tell you something.
01:43You see the school right there, miss?
01:45Yes.
01:45They're the best school on the whole world, miss.
01:47And the best school talking with the best TV news station, miss.
01:51Yeah, miss.
01:52And I, 12 years old.
01:57Well, the exam, well, it was kind of hard, but it was kind of easy.
02:02They never gave me anything that was too, too hard where you cannot figure out.
02:06You got this.
02:07Okay.
02:08Mm-hmm.
02:08So, English was good?
02:09English was great.
02:10It was good?
02:11It was great.
02:13And what about the math?
02:14Miss, the math, the math had some difficult questions.
02:17It had some easy questions, but overall, it was a solid math.
02:22What was the exam?
02:23It was good.
02:24It was good.
02:25And I know for sure I passed it with flying colors.
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