Massive Failure Rates in Extraordinary Exams – Mozambique

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Massive Failure Rates in Extraordinary Exams – Mozambique

2:30 CAT | 11 Dec 2015

In file Club of Mozambique.

Over three quarters of the Mozambican secondary school students who sat extraordinary examinations in August failed, according to the spokesperson of the Ministry of Education and Human Development, Ivan Collison.

Speaking at a Maputo press conference on Thursday, Collison said that only 23 per cent of the students (about 30,000) in 7th, 10th and 12th grades had passed the exams. 131,203 students sat the exams throughout the country, and 101,027 of them failed.

“The pass rate is low,” admitted Collison, but added that it was an improvement on the past. “2015 had the best pass rate of the previous six years”.

He claimed that the high failure rate was due to the fact that many of the students are outside of full time education. There were cases of students who took the exams, but had interrupted their full time studies three or four years earlier.

Collison said 488 cases of cheating had been detected during the exams, but gave no details. However, it is known that many of these involve smuggling mobile phones into the examination room.

Ordinary final exams in primary education and in adult education had much higher pass rates, said Collison. Thus in the final exams for second grade pupils over 74 per cent passed, and in the fifth grade exams there was a pass rate of 64 per cent. In the literacy and adult education exams, the pass rate was 77 per cent.

Collison thought these figures showed a commitment by the various stakeholders to improve the quality of education, particularly in the initial grades of primary education.

Source: AIM