7 students who will be placed in those secondary schools in September.

Principals of other schools are now considering applications, and all parents will be told where their children are placed on May 21, Chief Education Officer Mr. Dean Furbert said yesterday.

"We understand the transfer process is an anxious time for parents and their children,'' Mr. Furbert said. "All parents want to know that their children have been placed for September.'' Now that Berkeley and Warwick have completed their selections, principals of other secondary schools will today start considering application forms of those students who were not offered a place along with those who chose not to write the Secondary Schools Admissions Test, he said.

Principals will give preference to those students who live nearest to their respective schools, he said. Those who cannot be accommodated in the nearest school would be offered a place in the next-nearest school with space.

About 450 of the Island's 600 Primary Seven students sat the exam for just 210 places at the two academic schools, The Royal Gazette reported last week.

That number included 27 from Elliott Primary, 22 of Gilbert Institute's 24 Primary Seven students, 40 of Dellwood's 58, 37 of Harrington Sound's 44, 17 of St. George's Preparatory's 19, and 41 of West Pembroke's 51 Primary Seven students.

However, Berkeley can only take up to 120 of the Primary Seven students and Warwick will just have 90 spaces available for first-year students.

It was earlier reported that exam results were wide-ranging but at least ten of the students achieved perfect scores on the interim exam.

Berkeley, which is to become one of Government's two senior secondary schools in 1999, has 265 applications and Warwick, which is scheduled to become completely private in September, 1995, has received a little less.

Parents who opted to have their children sit the SSAT can choose another secondary school.

Both the SSAT and transfer plan are temporary measures of moving primary students in public schools to high schools.

They will be abandoned when Government's major education restructuring plan, which includes six years of primary, three years of middle level, and four years of senior secondary education, begins in 1996.

Mr. Dean Furbert.