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Hundreds of Class Four students are currently sitting the 2026 Barbados Secondary Schools Entrance Examination.
According to Minister of Education Transformation Chad Blackman, the examination, which began at 9 a.m., got off to a smooth start at the 21 centres across the country.
He gave the update at the Deighton Griffith Secondary School, where he was joined by Chief Education Officer Dr. Ramona Archer-Bradshaw and other education officials to observe proceedings at that centre.
Dr Archer-Bradshaw says Ministry of Education officials were on the job from as early as 6 a.m., overseeing the dissemination of the papers for the 2,777 students writing the examination.
