Z-score crises continues

23 July 2012 03:42 pm

The Z-score crisis took another twist today when several students found that their Z-scores had changed after they were calculated afresh based on a Supreme Court ruling. After the new Z-scores were released, the district and island rankings of students who sat the 2011 GCE A/L Examination under the old syllabus had dropped drastically whereas the rankings of those who had followed the new syllabus had improved with better prospects for university admission. Pix by Kushan Pathiraja