SOME 385,938 students have registered with the National Examinations Council of Tanzania (NECTA) to sit for the national Form Four examinations which start today, warning against cheating and other forms of misconducts.
The examination authority also directed
the owners of private secondary schools to realize that their schools
now are special centres for the national exams so they should not in any
way interfere with the role of the supervisors throughout the
examination period.
NECTA made it clear that failure to
adhere to the directive, the schools risk facing closure, among others.
According to the authority’s Executive Secretary, Dr Charles Msonde, the
candidates are expected to write the exams at 4,787 secondary schools
and in 1,064 private centres.
Detailing further, Dr Msonde affirmed
that 323,513 are school candidates while the remaining 62,425 are
private candidates. He said out of 322,513 school candidates who have
registered, boys are 159,103 equivalent to 49.18 per cent and girls are
164,410 equivalent to 50.82 per cent.
Private candidates are 62,425 who have
registered to seat for the Form Four national examinations whereby males
are 28,574 equivalent to 45.77 per cent and 33,851 are female which is
equivalent to 54.23 per cent. Last year the school candidates registered
to seat for the Form Four national examinations were 355,822 and 52,550
were registered as private candidates.
“The council would like to use this
opportunity to urge the Regional and Municipal Councils committees of
examinations to ensure all procedures for operating national
examinations are considered and respected and make sure that the
environment of the centres is safe and quiet with no indication of
cheating,” said Dr Msonde in Dar es Salaam yesterday.
He further said that in this year a
total of 16,279 students have registered to write for the Qualifying
Test (QT) where 6,725 equivalent to 41.31 per cent and females are 9,554
equivalent to 58.69 per cent.
Last year the candidates registered to
write for QT examinations were 20,655. NACTE has also warned teachers
and members of community in general not to involve in any incident of
cheatings during the examination because the council will take legal
action for those who would be found involved in cheatings for the
examinations according to the procedures of public service and laws of
the country.
Speaking at the same occasion, the Dar
es Salaam Regional Administrative Secretary (RAS), Ms Theresia Mmbando
on behalf of other secretaries in the country, who are the chairpersons
of the regional and municipal councils’ examinations committees said
supervisors and head of examination’s centres have already been trained
to follow all procedures.
“We believe they will obey procedures of
operating examinations as they have been trained, we believe they will
avoid cheating incidents and environment of centres will be quiet and
safe,” she said.
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