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To­mor­row is the Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA) in Trinidad and To­ba­go, one of the most piv­otal ex­ams in the ed­u­ca­tion­al jour­ney of stu­dents in this coun­try.

De­spite its im­por­tance, there has al­ways been an on­go­ing de­bate about whether the SEA is an ef­fec­tive way to mea­sure a stu­dent’s po­ten­tial and ca­pa­bil­i­ties, with crit­ics ar­gu­ing that it places too much pres­sure on young chil­dren.

For me per­son­al­ly, this mile­stone has spe­cial val­ue, as my youngest child will do the ex­am, mark­ing a sig­nif­i­cant tran­si­tion in her life.