IN JAMAICA : Results Are In! Emotions Run High As GSAT Grades Are Delivered......"Some students cry because they are happy, while others cry because they are sad. Either way, we have to encourage the students that whatever school they pass for, they can still achieve their goals through hard work," 39,438 students sat the exams.

Jermaine Francis and Kemisha Anderson, Gleaner Writers  Published: Friday | June 20, 2014 

Anjolie Hull (left) and Sjaunbonet Watson show off their
Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) results at the Naggo
 Head Primary School in Portmore, St Catherine, yesterday.
 - Photos by Jermaine Barnaby/Photographer

The nerve-racking experience the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) has now become for many students was clearly displayed yesterday, as the results of the exams were gradually released to schools.

Bloodshot eyes and tear-streaked faces, sometimes because of jubilation but mostly due to disappointment, were mingled with shouts of elation and hugs from parents in at least two of the institutions The Gleaner visited yesterday evening.

At the Rollington Town Primary School in Kingston, one student was sobbing so uncontrollably that she was unable to say her name.

She, however, stopped howling just long enough to say she was upset because she got into Wolmer's Girls School and not her first choice, Campion College.

Her teachers and friends tried consoling her by telling her Wolmer's was one of the top-performing schools in the island, but that did little to beat back the tears.

EXCEPTIONAL STUDENTS

Naggo Head Primary School senior teacher
 Andria Givons (left) checks on the results for
students Julia Dunn (centre), who got
 a 99 per cent average and will be attending
 Campion Colllege, and Trishanna Ford, who
 received a 94.2 per cent average and
 was placed at Ardenne High School.

Dr Margaret Bailey, principal of the school, explained there were some students who did exceptionally but did not get into their first choice, and this little girl was one of them.

She said she was elated with the overall performance of the students, as their grades reflected the hard work the pupils and the teachers put in. more