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PSE’s Top Kids Honoured
posted (June 19, 2018)
The 2018 PSE results were released earlier this month and the outcome was not great. According to our calculations, across the 7 thousand plus test takers, the mean score was 58% which according to the Ministry's scale is a 'D' or 'adequate grade.

But that dismal average doesn't mean there's nothing to celebrate. While the average grades were nothing to write home about the top performers were acknowledged for their stellar performance. Today the top primary school students from throughout the country gathered at the Bliss Center in Belize City to receive awards for their achievements in the PSE. We spoke to a few of those students about the event, their plans for the future and advice for their successors.

Gerson Makhwani - 2nd Place, Mary Hill RC School
"My reflection is that I think all that has led up here today has truly been something that has been paid off, you know something that I worked for. I can be proud to say that I am here today, that's my reflection. I know I did what I was supposed to do and I did good enough to be here today."

Rolando Umana - 1st Place, La Inmaculada RC School
"I'm planning to go to Muffles College in Orange Walk and there I would plan to join the Honor Society and I would plan to do well there and try my best, like keep the record that I have and in the future I would like to become a pediatrician and work as my idol."

Haley Thurton, 1st Place - Hummingbird Elementary
"The experience is great and I'd also like to congratulate everyone the top 25 and those who received great scores as well."

"You need to focus and pay attention in class. Stay calm, take your breaths and also just work on what you know, so that you are not too stressed out and then you can go over the things that you are not too sure about. Just stay focus and be calm and confident."

Gerson Makhwani - 2nd Place, Mary Hill RC School
"In a way the PSE, everybody talks of it as being a huge exam, and in a way it is, but it's not reason for you to really worry. You obviously have to study hard, but once you studied hard and you know that you studied hard it's not something for you to be fretting about or be nervous because the PSE is basically just like every exam. SO take it cool because I know a lot of my classmates lost valuable points just because they were nervous. So, study hard and once you study hard keep your cool, sit down, breath in, breath out and rock that exam."

Awards were given out to the 25 students with the highest overall schools as well as to the top achievers in each subject and district.

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