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.
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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.
Jamaican Schools SHUTDOWN
The Prime Minister of Jamaica, Hon. Andrew Holness, held an emergency press conference on Thursday, March 12, 2020, ordering an island-wide shut down of schools for 14 days amid Coronavirus scare.
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!”
The final phase of the PEP Examation is here
Today, April 16, 2019, is Day one (1) of the Mathematics Performance Task. Students would have done the Language Arts and Science Cirriculum Based Test (CBT). They must have breathed a sigh of relief, the examinations are almost over. All the late nights and play-free weekends are almost to an end. Indeed all their effortsContinue reading “The final phase of the PEP Examation is here”
Ministry increases PEP workshops ahead of PEP Performance Task
The Ministry of Education is adomant in ensuring that teachers are adequately trained to prepare students for the Performance Task to be held on March 27 and 28, 2019. Efforts to increase the number of workshops in each constituency is evident.
Students feel confident after the first round of PEP examination
Today, Tuesday, February 26, 2019 marks the “first ever“ sitting of the PEP examination in Jamaica. Many students would have been accustomed to the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) which was in place for 19 years; the examination that PEP has replaced. Grade 6 students all over the island of Jamaica would have completed theContinue reading “Students feel confident after the first round of PEP examination”
Practice PEP
Welcome to your number 1 (one) source for PEP (Primary Exit Profile) lectures, information and tutorials. We are geared towards developing student’s and parent’s 21st century skills such as critical thinking, communication and collaboration. We are commited to helping jamaican student transition from the primitive GSAT examination to PEP, the high order thinking oriented examinationContinue reading “Practice PEP”
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