She said the highest total score this year was 96.24%, gained by Utamu Rose of the St. Mary's Roman Catholic School. In 2006, the highest total score was 92.78%. The second place in the examination written by 2664 students went to the Lafeisha Hadley of the Georgetown Government with 95.70% while the third position was awarded to Katherine Renton of the St. Mary's Roman Catholic School with 94.62%. Soleil Gonsalves of the Kingstown Preparatory took the fourth position with 94.57% and fifth place went to Anson Latchman of the Georgetown Government with 93.55%.

The Minister said 26 students in this year's exam earned in excess of 90% of the total score while 187 students scored 80% or more with the comparative figure being 77 in 2006. She said the number of students who met the required standard showed an increase of 521 over that of 2006.

In 2006 1101 students passed the examination and in 2007, 1622 students successfully completed the exam. Minister Miguel told reporters 678 (50.56%) out of the 1341 boys who wrote the exams were successful. This was an increase from 482 (35.0%) of the 1376 in 2006. "The boys have again narrowed the gap", she said.

The Education Minister publicly thanked the staff at the Ministry of Education and the teachers and principals of the various primary schools in St.Vincent and the Grenadines for such an overwhelming result with the exams. She noted that the successful result could be attributed to the strategic intervention made by her Ministry. She said for the first time schools were provided with resource material, which should have encouraged students and teachers to work for longer periods at meaningful activity and curriculum specialists provided quality support to teachers in getting students ready for these exams.

She further noted that the Ministry of education endeavoured to make the exams less stressful by spreading the exam over a longer period." The first ten places were taken by the St. Mary's Roman Catholic School, the Georgetown Government, the Kingstown Preparatory, the Stubbs Government, the Cane End Government, the Barrouallie Government, and the Troumaca Government.

To be successful, a student has to earn at least half of the total marks on the test, at the same time not less than 1/3 on any of the papers.