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Chikumbutso Ndaferankhande, 29 January 2007
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The Malawi National Examination Board (Maneb) yesterday announced the release of the 2006 Malawi School Certificate of Education (MSCE) examinations results, where there are more failures than last year.
Of the 78,506 candidates who sat for the 2006 examination, 30,319 have qualified for the award of the MSCE, representing a 38.62% pass rate—about 12 percentage points below the 2005 result.
Of the 50,006 internal candidates who sat for the examination, 21,072 have passed, representing a 42.14% pass rate while of the 28,518 external candidates who sat for the examination, 9,247 have passed, representing a 32.43% pass rate.
Maneb executive director Matthews Matemba yesterday said the pass rate has dropped compared to 2005 when it was at 50.51%. He attributed the drop to several reasons.
“Our chief examiners tell us some schools do not adequately cover the syllabus. There are also issues like general teacher shortage, the shortage of qualified teachers and lack of specialised teachers in subjects like mathematics and the sciences.
“These problems are especially in community day secondary schools and some private secondary schools,” said Matemba.
He, however, said despite the drop in pass rate, the examination board was very happy with the drop in cheating cases which was the lowest from 1999. Matemba gave an example of 2005 where 138 cases were disqualified compared to last year’s 75 cases.
According to a Maneb press release, the worst cheating scenario was in 2002 when 5,254 candidates were disqualified.
Matemba said the board has also disqualified 35 candidates from Likuni Boys, Chaminade, Lisumbwi, Kasungu and Mbomba secondary schools due to vandalism of school property and threatening teachers. Some 110 candidates have been disqualified.
“Let me also warn all candidates who go on rampage like threatening teachers, vandalising school property when they are writing examinations, thinking they are off the hook. Maneb will deal with them,” said Matemba.
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