Dar es Salaam —
Private schools shined in the Form Two and Standard IV national exams,
according to results announced by the
National Examinations Council of
Tanzania (Necta) yesterday.
The results of
exams that were sat in November last year show that 1.6 million out of
registered 1.7 million students had sat for their Form Four exams while
571,586 out of registered 609,357 did their Form Two national exams.
Necta executive
director Dr Charles Musonde mentioned top ten schools for Form Two exams
as St Francis Girls, Kemebos, Centennial Christian Seminary, Thomas
More Machira, Bethel Sabs Girls, St Augustine-Tagaste, Bright Future
Girls, Anwarite Girls, Feza Girls and Canossa.
Nine out of ten
best performing students were from Marian Boys Secondary School while a
girl student from Canossa Secondary School scooped the tenth position.
Overall
performances show that the pass rate for Form Two examinations was 90
per cent of all candidates who will join Form Three this year.
This means that
514,251 students out 571,137 registered for the exams have passed. About
270,750 were girls while 243,501 were boys.
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According to the
Necta boss, nearly all students recorded a pass mark ranging between
50.28 and 92.19 percent on primary subjects but performed poorly in
mathematics, chemistry and history.
Standard Four exams
According to Necta,
some 1.53 million out of 1.66 million candidates who sat for Standard
Four examinations scored A,B,C and D, an increase by 26.21 percent
compared with the 2018 performances.
He mentioned the
best performing school as Kemebos, Tumaini, Johnson Excellency,
Mwilamvya, Twibhoki, Rweikiza, Bohari, Peaceland, St. Anne Marie and
Rishor primary schools.
Kilimanjaro, Iringa
and Arusha emerged best performing regions in the Form Two exams, while
Dar es Salaam, Kagera and Kilimanjaro recorded top performance in the
Standard Four exams.
Necta boss said
other regions including Lindi also registered an upward trend
performance for Form Two exams at 2.71 percent for three consecutive
years while Tabora and Mara recorded falling performances.
Standard Four
results show Ruvuma, Dar es Salaam and Morogoro have increased the
number of performances for three consecutive years while the performance
for Kigoma, Geita and Tabora regions were falling.
Dr Musonde also
said the results analysis has shown that best performing district
councils for Form Two examinations were Bagamoyo, Bukoba (M), Meru,
Njombe. Morogoro (U), Monduli, Kibaha (U),Moshi (U), Moshi (R) and
Arusha.
Others were Meatu, Madaba, Newala, Arusha, Lindi (M), Siha, Ukerewe, Kibaha, Kiteto and Liwale.
However, the
overall performances of Kilindi, Mkuranga, Nzega, Kasulu, Buhigwe,
Bukombe, Kigoma, Ulanga, Musoma and Serengeti district councils fell.
Namtumbo, Longido,
Tarime, Ukerewe, Maswa, Nanyamba Town, Masasi Town, Kyela, Kilosa and
Bariadi Rural were named as among disctrict councils whose pass rates
has increased for three years consecutively.
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