Less than two weeks after the Ministry of Education released the 2026 National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) results, the We Invest in Nationhood (WIN) party—the main Opposition holding 16 of the Opposition’s 29 seats in the 65-member National Assembly—is calling on the government to release the statistical data and methodology used to produce the examination results, arguing that transparency is essential to maintaining public confidence in Guyana’s secondary school placement system.

The call comes after the Ministry announced on July 10 that 15,706 pupils wrote this year’s examination and that 20 students achieved the maximum standardised score of 484.52 marks, making it the strongest NGSA performance in the country’s history. The Ministry also said Guyana surpassed regional academic benchmarks.

While those headline results were welcomed, they have also generated questions from teachers, parents, education professionals and other sections of society about how the standardised scores were derived and whether the placement process fairly reflects students’ academic performance.