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SEA finally over

11 April 2025
This content originally appeared on News Day - Trinidad and Tobago.
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Nelson Street Girls' RC School students celebrate after sitting the Secondary Entrance Assessment (SEA) on April 10. - Photo by Ayanna Kinsale
Nelson Street Girls' RC School students celebrate after sitting the Secondary Entrance Assessment (SEA) on April 10. - Photo by Ayanna Kinsale

OVER 17,000 primary school students had cause to celebrate on April 10 after completing the Secondary Entrance Assessment Examination (SEA).

After years of preparation for the milestone exam, students and parents alike can breathe easier as the exam is over.

Newsday photographers Ayanna Kinsale, Innis Francis and Visual Styles visited schools across Trinidad and Tobago capturing these images.

Newsday's advertising clerk Ayana Huggins congratulates her daughter Zariah Gormandy of St Monica's Preparatory School after she wrote the Secondary Entrance Assessment (SEA) exam on April 10. - Photo by Ayanna Kinsale
With all hands in the air, these pupils of St Gabriel's Girls' RC Primary School at Dr Leroy Calliste Street, San Fernando, were happy the SEA exam was over on April 10. - Photo by Innis Francis

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Nelson Street Boys' RC School students celebrate after sitting the Secondary Entrance Assessment (SEA) exam on April 10. - Photo by Ayanna Kinsale
A SEA student is excitedly greeted by her father as she exits the exam room of St Gabriel's Girls' RC Primary School at Dr Leroy Calliste Street, San Fernando, on April 10. - Photo by Innis Francis
Four SEA students enjoy a relaxed moment together after completing the exam at San Fernando Boys' RC School, Harris Promenade, San Fernando, on April 10. - Photo by Innis Francis
Is Naeem Skye Baynes receives a kiss from his mother Ornella Wilson in front of the Scarborough Methodist School after he completed the SEA exam on April 10. - Photo by Visual Styles
St Monica's Preparatory School students celebrate after sitting the Secondary Entrance Assessment (SEA) exam on April 10. - Photo by Ayanna Kinsale
A SEA student gets a hug from her mother for successfully completing the exam at St Gabriel's Girls' RC Primary School at Dr Leroy Calliste Street, San Fernando, on April 10. - Photo by Innis Francis
Ava Marie Deochan, centre, is celebrated by her friends Jaquine Robbinson, left, and Jada Maria Tom for successfully completing the SEA exam with them and doing so on her birthday at St Gabriel's Girls' RC Primary School at Dr Leroy Calliste Street, San Fernando, on April 10. - Photo by Innis Francis
Moulton Hall Methodist School students celebrate after sitting the Secondary Entrance Assessment (SEA) exam on April 10. - Photo by Ayanna Kinsale