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O Level Exam Spillover To Next Year
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PUBLIC examinations for Ordinary Level candidates will spill into January next year, while results for Grade Seven candidates will be released before year-end to allow parents adequate time to secure Form One places for their children.
The examinations commence on 1 December with around 1,2 million candidates having registered to sit for the exams countrywide. Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) board chairperson Professor Eddie Mwenje told our Harare Bureau that Advanced Level examinations will however, be completed by year-end.
“Examinations will start on December 1 with Grade Seven candidates being the first to sit for the exams. This will enable their answer scripts to be marked and the results to be published in December so as to allow parents enough time to look for Form One places. Advanced Level candidates are also likely to write and complete their examinations in December. Ordinary Level classes will have their examinations spill into January.”
He said due to the large number of subjects offered at O’Level, it was inevitable that the exams would spill into 2021.
Around 600 000 pupils will sit for Grade Seven examinations, while about 400 000 have registered for the Ordinary Level exams with nearly 200 000 candidates set to sit for the Advanced Level exams.
Exam classes are undergoing an intense crash programme to ensure that learners catch up on lost learning time.
Pupils sitting for the Cambridge examinations are already halfway through their exams, which started on October 1 and are ending on November 18.
British Council in Zimbabwe, which is the Cambridge partner, said the examinations have been going on without incident.
About 50 000 pupils are sitting for Cambridge examinations at 118 private schools across the country. Sunday Mail
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Neco Suspended
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Breaking: NECO Suspends SSCE Examinations, Orders Staff to Return Home

editorOctober 21, 2020 5:47 Pm
By Laleye Dipo in Minna
Following deterioration of the security situation in the country occasioned by the #ENDSARS protests, the National Examination Council NECO has stopped the conduct of the Senior School Certificate Examination SSCE .
THISDAY learnt that the examination body has already directed its examiners and invigilators to return to their various offices and await further instructions.
The decision to stop the conduct of the examination also followed the declaration of 24-hour curfew by some state governors especially those of Lagos, Ogun, Edo and Imo where the #ENDSARS protest had assumed destructive dimensions.
The examination body had conducted the Economics paper test on Tuesday while the Physics practical paper took place on Wednesday without some candidates in some states writing the tests because of the protest and curfew
A message from the Director of Examination Administration to all its field officers confirmed the stoppage of the examination.
The message titled :PUTTING ON HOLD SOME PAPERS OF THE ONGOING SSCE”, the examination body defended its action by saying: “The Management and Governing Board of the National Examinations Council NECO is compelled by circumstances occasioned by the EndSARS protests which led to imposition of curfews in some states thereby making it difficult for the council to move sensitive materials across the country, to put on hold papers for Thursday 22 ,Friday 23 and Saturday 24th.October.
“The papers will be written between 17th to 19th November after computer practical paper on the 16th.Examinations will continue on the 27th of October.
“ALL Officers are hereby directed to return to base and await further directives on the 25th.
“State Ministries of Education ,Schools, parents ,Supervisors, monitoring officers and other stakeholders should be adequately sensitized,” the circular said.
A senior official of NECO had also told THISDAY “It is absolutely difficult for us to continue to conduct the Examinations in the present circumstance” .
“We are monitoring the situation, when things normalise we will sit to decide the next line of action,” THISDAY was further told.
Last Sunday, NECO announced that it had rescheduled one of its Senior School Certificate Examinations papers, the Computer Studies Practicals paper 1 earlier scheduled to take place on Monday 19 October 2020, at 10am
Azeez Sani Head Information Unit of the organisation had said in a statement made available to.newsmen in Minna headquarters of the organisation that the examination will now hold on Monday 16 November 2020, 10am-1pm.
Sani disclosed that the decision to reschedule the Examinations followed blockage of free movement of vehicles at the City gate in Benin, the Edo state capital, hence the inability of the council vehicles to deliver the papers for the Monday Examinations.
According to the statement, “This unforeseen incident has been caused by the ENDSARS protest that blocked the free movement of transport at the City entrance gate Benin. The NECO delivery truck had left its take off point well in advance on Friday 16 October 2020, earlier to deliver examination materials to some states and has been held up in the blockage since then”.
However Azeez Sani could not be reached on his cell phones to confirm the latest development.
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