BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Barbados-based Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) Monday said that overall performance at the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) has reached the 90 per cent mark for the first time in six years.

It said this year, 90.15 per cent of the Unit entries achieved Grades I – V, which are the acceptable grades at CAPE, noting that in the last five years the percentage of entries achieving acceptable Grades remained steady at 89 per cent.

But CXC said the growth of CAPE slowed this year for both candidate entries and unit entries. It said the number of candidates entered for CAPE stood at 28, 228, an increase of 185 candidates compared with 2012.