Af­ter two years of prepa­ra­tion for the Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA), thou­sands of pri­ma­ry school stu­dents across South Trinidad wore smiles of re­lief as they com­plet­ed the ex­am­i­na­tions that some de­scribed as easy.

In San Fer­nan­do yes­ter­day, ju­bi­lant stu­dents said the math­e­mat­ics pa­per posed some chal­lenges as it con­tained one or two tricky ques­tions. How­ev­er, some ex­pressed con­fi­dence about place­ment in top sec­ondary schools.

At St Gabriel’s Girls’ RC Pri­ma­ry School and San Fer­nan­do Boys’ RC School, the over­whelm­ing sen­ti­ment was one of re­lief. Stu­dents seemed ea­ger to re­lax af­ter months of in­tense prepa­ra­tion and some par­ents ad­mit­ted they were ner­vous as they wait­ed to see their chil­dren’s faces as they emerged from the ex­am.