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Over 200 special needs students accomodated for GSAT

A child with a gunshot wound, a cancer patient and another who a patient at the Bustamante Hospital for Children, were among 261 special needs students who sat the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) which ended on Friday.

The child in hospital was allowed to write the exam in the presence of an invigilator.

Other special needs included children with autism, broken limbs, visual and hearing impairments, sickle cell, learning disabilities and a language barrier.

In the case of the language barrier, two Chinese-speaking students were accommodated.   

The Ministry says they assisted by providing extra time, a reader, writer, prompter, interpreter, large font, Braille and preferential seating. 

The Education Ministry also disclosed that there was a minor delay to the start of the exam at the Discovery Bay Primary School in St. Ann to ensure the delivery of additional test papers.

In the Corporate Area the register for the Chetolah Park Primary School in Hannah Town West Kingston was inadvertently sent to the nearby Central Branch Primary School on Slipe Pen Road.

It says the situation was quickly rectified by an Education Officer.

38,470 candidates were registered to sit the two-day Grade Six Achievement Test however on Thursday several unregistered students in St. James and Westmoreland were allowed to sit the exam. The test was postponed by a week as the smoke from the Riverton City disposal site affected schools.

 



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