The Caribbean Ex­am­i­na­tions Coun­cil (CXC) is re­form­ing its School-Based As­sess­ment (SBA) frame­work, with changes set to af­fect stu­dents sit­ting Caribbean Sec­ondary Ed­u­ca­tion Cer­tifi­cate (CSEC) and Caribbean Ad­vanced Pro­fi­cien­cy Ex­am­i­na­tion (CAPE) sub­jects from the 2027 aca­d­e­m­ic year.

The re­forms are be­ing in­tro­duced in re­sponse to the rapid growth of Gen­er­a­tive Ar­ti­fi­cial In­tel­li­gence (AI) and con­cerns about main­tain­ing the in­tegri­ty and au­then­tic­i­ty of stu­dent as­sess­ments.

Un­der the new frame­work, SBAs will con­tin­ue for sub­jects that re­ly heav­i­ly on prac­ti­cal skills and project-based learn­ing, in­clud­ing Agri­cul­tur­al Sci­ence, Vi­su­al Arts, Mu­sic, Phys­i­cal Ed­u­ca­tion, Tech­ni­cal Draw­ing and Food, Nu­tri­tion and Health.