Ministry Announces Updates to 2026 PEP Examination Administration Written by Kimberly Bowen January 7, 2026 The Ministry of Education, Skills, Youth and Information (MoESYI) has announced significant updates to the administration of the Primary Exit Profile (PEP) Examination for the 2025–2026 academic year. The changes were outlined in Priority Bulletin 04, dated January 7, 2026,Continue reading “Updates to 2026 PEP Examination Administration”
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New dates for Grade 5 and 4 exams
The Ministry of Education, Youth and Information has set the dates of June 15 and 16, 2021 for the administration of the Grade Five Primary Exit Profile (PEP) – Performance Task . The students will be required to complete a task from the four key subject areas: Mathematics, Science, Social Studies and Language Arts.
PEP Webinar: Developing 21st Century Skill
On Saturday, January 30, 2021, PEP Practice will host it’s first webinar on Developing 21st Century skills. The focus of the webinar will be on Problem Solving skills and Prewriting strategies. The event is free, persons interested can tune in to the LIVE broadcast of the webinar via PEP Practice’s YouTube channel.
PEP Ability Test “right around the corner”
KINGSTON – With the PEP Ability Test less than one month away, February 23, 2021, teachers and parents alike are ramping up on their preparations. There has also been efforts from private entities such as PEP Practice and the Reggae Math Foundation Inc. lending assistance to students in need of additional support especially since someContinue reading “PEP Ability Test “right around the corner””
Developing 21st Century Skills webinar for PEP Examinations
Forming opinions and citing evidence from sources
Most Language Art PEP performance tasks will have a writing task formerly known as the Communication Task in GSAT. In these writing task, students are required to analyze and sometimes critique details from various sources of information, which are sometimes in tabular form.
Grade 6 PEP Exams are finally over, What NOW!
The mammoth Grade 6 PEP Examinations are over, however PEP still continues. It is now the time for the Grade 4 students all over Jamaica to get a dose of the bitter medicine. Gone are the days that students could wait until they are in Grade 6 to “buckle down” and start do their schoolContinue reading “Grade 6 PEP Exams are finally over, What NOW!”
PEP Language Arts Performance Task was Manageable
March 27, 2019, was the starting of the PEP Performance Task (PT). Today, students did the Language Art Performance Task based on observing healthy eating habits, teachers did their Teacher Activity (TA), then instructed students to complete their PT. In the PT, there were two sources, Source 1: A letter to an editor discussing theContinue reading “PEP Language Arts Performance Task was Manageable”
Five (5) days to go Guys! (Performance Task)
P. E. P students are you ready? Parents are you encouraging your children? Teachers are you making your final preparations?
“I want to get this over with “
“I want to get this over with”, a P. E.P student’s response when asked if he’s ready for the Performance Tasks commencing on March 27 and 28. He says this is an important aspect of his life and he wants to be very successful in every step of the examination but he wants to getContinue reading ““I want to get this over with “”
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