CSEC preparation
CSEC preparation that tells you who is ready.
Students sit papers online through the year. Each one is read by topic, difficulty and pacing against the CSEC syllabus, and comes back as a readiness band, an estimated CSEC grade and the topics worth the next lesson.
Why a mock mark is not enough
Two students, both 28 out of 40.
One worked at a steady pace and finished, with one weak area. The other ran out of time and guessed the last eight. The mark sheet calls them the same. They need different lessons tomorrow. Four things are measured on every paper that a score cannot show.
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Difficulty
A student who attempts the hard questions is not behind one who only answered the easy ones. Every score is adjusted for what it was earned on.
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Pacing
Rushing and running out of time look identical on a mark sheet and need opposite responses. Timed silently, because a visible clock would change what is being measured.
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Coverage
A strong result on a fifth of the syllabus is not readiness. Nobody is called ready until enough has been assessed to say so.
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Topics
Every question maps to a syllabus topic, so a mark becomes a map: algebra solid, statistics provisional, consumer arithmetic not yet.
Per student
The evidence, on one page.
Every paper produces a report on each student. Read it before a session, file it, or hand it straight to a parent.
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An estimated CSEC grade
Derived from the readiness band, from the same calculation, so the band and the grade cannot disagree in front of a parent.
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Mastery by topic
Each topic on the syllabus with its own number. A topic answered only a few times is drawn with stripes: early numbers are labelled early.
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What would move this
A plain sentence on what to do next, such as an hour on consumer arithmetic, then more statistics questions to confirm the early number.
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Since last time
Whether the student has moved since the previous paper, and by how much.
Per class, per school
Where to teach next.
The same evidence, rolled up: who is where, what the class is weakest at, and whether the term is actually moving.
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Ranked by exam cost
A slightly weak topic worth a fifth of the paper outranks a very weak one worth two per cent. The first line is the one worth the lesson.
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Counted as people
Fourteen students each missing one question is a different problem from one student missing fourteen.
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Rolls up to the school
A head teacher sees the same numbers by subject, across every class, without opening a single student record.
Questions
What people ask first.
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How is the estimated CSEC grade worked out?
From the student’s readiness band. The band and the grade come from the same calculation, so they cannot disagree.
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How early in the course can it tell us anything?
From the first paper, with care. Topics answered only a few times are marked as provisional, and nobody is called ready until enough of the syllabus has been assessed to say so.
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Does it replace our teachers’ judgement?
No. It reads the papers your students sit and tells you what the marks mean. What to do about it stays with the teacher.
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What do teachers have to do differently?
One small note on each question: how hard it is, and how long it should take. Two numbers, and that is the whole change to anybody’s day.
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Can we print the reports for parents?
Yes. Each report is made to be printed: one clean page, no navigation, no wasted ink.
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We already use Google Classroom. Can we still have this?
Yes. The report on each student and the class view work exactly as they do on our own platform.
Talk to us
Bring one class,
one paper, one afternoon.
Tell us what you teach and how many students you have. We will show you the system set up with your own subjects in it, and what a readiness report looks like.
Doctrina Education builds and runs learning platforms for schools and tutors in Guyana and across the Caribbean, for the NGSA and CSEC syllabuses as they are actually examined.