Near­ly 18,000 stu­dents across Trinidad and To­ba­go sat the Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA) on Thurs­day with­out any re­port­ed in­ci­dents, ac­cord­ing to the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion.

The high-stakes ex­am­i­na­tion, which de­ter­mines place­ment in pub­lic sec­ondary schools, was ad­min­is­tered at 547 cen­tres na­tion­wide. This year, 17,937 stu­dents reg­is­tered to take the test—9,095 boys and 8,842 girls. Of those, 16,931 were in Trinidad and 1,006 in To­ba­go.

For stu­dents who were un­able to write the ex­am due to ill­ness or oth­er emer­gen­cies, a sup­ple­men­tal sit­ting is sched­uled for May 8.