Sixteen months after announcing a pilot for its Caribbean Targeted Education Certificate (CTEC) in mathematics to tackle “the perennial under-performance of students” in the subject, the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) on Tuesday reported an 88 per cent pass rate among the 2,535 candidates who sat the exam in the May-June 2026 sitting. A total of 2,230 candidates passed.

Dr Wayne Wesley, CXC registrar and chief executive officer, made the disclosure during the live results ceremony from Anguilla, saying the results were proof that the region has “overwhelmingly accepted CTEC”.

“I am pleased indeed, and I am proud to announce that of these 2,535 candidates who wrote CTEC module one in the mathematics pilot examinations, 88 per cent achieved acceptable grades, and across the entire Caribbean only one candidate received the lowest grade. It simply means that most candidates are benefiting from the approach. Measured against a generation in which barely one in three candidates succeed in a typical sitting, this achievement represents a remarkable turnaround,” Wesley said.