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Belize's top finishers in the CSEC or Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate Exams, and the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination, formerly known as CXC's, have been released by the CXC National Committee.
It shows three SJC students at the pinnacle of accomplishment. For the CSEC they are: Most Outstanding Candidate Romel Rudon, and Second Most outstanding Aaron Stock and - both took 15 CXC's as fourth formers at SJC last year. Both of them got four grade one's and one grade two.

For the advanced proficiency exam which is what sixth formers take RAVESH SUKHNANDAN was the most outstanding candidate. He's away pursuing studies, but we met Stock and Rudon at the SJC campus today where they are both attending sixth form. They told us how they did it.

Romel Rudon
"Well I was actually walking home from school in the middle of the day and I just like stopped in the middle of the street and said that's good."

Aaron Stock
"I got a letter from my principal last week and well, I have gotten over my initial disappointment of work because we were aiming for 15 ones but I felt happy."

Romel Rudon
"Well I was kind of aiming for it and really felt good about each exam. I am majoring in Physics and Math, I want to after graduating from SJC go to Taiwan on a scholarship to further my education and just to be able to specialize in Aeronautical Engineering somewhere down the road."

Aaron Stock
"Hopefully I get a scholarship to study after sixth form at some university preferably in the US, specifically Aeronautical Engineering but I am still not completed decided."

Romel Rudon
"I would just like to advice those candidates to work hard and don't give up and just place their trust in God, because at the end of the day, when you fell like your low, it's the almighty that will help."

Aaron Stock
"Just listen in class, you don't really need to study much, it's not good to cram before an exam, just work hard through the year and you should be ok. All you do is a general review before the exam."

Oddly, both Rudon and Stock got their only Grade two result in Caribbean History - a subject which both describe as exceptionally difficult.

And so if they both got 14 Grade one's and one grade two - how does the CXC national committee decide between first and second? Well, Rudon earned a distinction in eleven subjects; his classmate Stock earned distinction in ten.