By Francine Black, Staff ReporterXAVIER FRANCIS and Christina Thompson outperformed their counterparts in this year's GSAT examination, winning the Scotia Bank Scholarship for top boy and girl respectively.
Nearly 49,000 students sat the exams in March, to earn a place in the nation's secondary schools.
Xavier, who attended Mount Alvernia Preparatory in Montego Bay, will move on to attend Cornwall College. Christina, a student at St. Andrew Preparatory, will attend Campion College.
Girls swept most of the 60 scholarships.
Michelle Johnson, a student of Black River Primary, won the scholarship awarded to the top performer in the county of Cornwall. Nicholas Craig, of Pembroke Hall Primary, won the scholarship for being the top performer in the county of Surrey, and Peta Gaye Phillips of Naggo Head Primary, received top award for the county of Middlesex.
Meshika Brown of the Christiana Primary and Moravian Infant won the Jamaica Teachers' Association, Aubrey Phillips Memorial scholarship for being the student with the highest mark in Manchester. She will attend Manchester High School in September.
Ashley Hamilton, a student of Black River Primary and Infant, received the J.A.G. Smith scholarship, which goes to the girl with the highest mark from a primary, all-age or junior high school and will move on to Hampton School. Rovaj Shirley, of Mona Heights Primary, received the Marcus Garvey Scholarship for the boy in the same category and will be attending Campion College.
HIGHEST SCORE
Odaine McMillian of Kilsyth Primary and Infant, who will attend Edwin Allen High, received the George William Gordon Scholarship for having the second highest score in the same category. Kymarni Hunt, from Port Morant Primary and Junior High, received the Paul Bogle Scholarship for the highest mark from a primary school in St. Thomas and will attend the Morant Bay High School.
Six students received Horlicks scholarships for being the best performer in each of the Min-istry of Education's six regions. Twelve students received the Blue Cross of Jamaica scholarships which were given to children of police officers, civil servants, teachers and workers in the commercial sector.
Mitsue Lawrence, of Watt Town All-Age, also received the Dr. Mabel Downer Scholarship for being the top performer from the school.
Twenty-eight students also received Government Scholar-ships, 14 for boys and 14 for girls. Twenty of those scholarships winners will attend Campion College and three, Immaculate Conception High. One student each will go to Ardenne High, Cornwall College and Mount Alvernia and two will move on to Bishop Gibson High.
According to the Ministry of Education more than 47,000 students were placed in schools offering secondary level education.
