Photo: Salim Shao/The Citizen THE National Examination Council of Tanzania (NECTA) today announced the results of the 2018 primary education examination results, which indicate that the passing rates had generally increased by 4.96 per cent.
The new examination results include that of the repeated examinations on October 08 and 09, 2018 after earlier examinations were nullified due to malpractices.
Prior to announcing the 2018 examination results, Dr Msonde said NECTA had annulled results of 357 candidates who were involved in cheating and that the examination body had forwarded all the names of officials who were involved in the malpractices to responsible authorities for further legal actions .
Announcing the results, Dr Msonde said 957,904 primary school candidates registered to sit for the examinations out of which 944,218 (98.82 per cent) sat for their exams.
Of that number girls were 496,857 equal to 98.82 per cent and boys were 447,361 (98.3).
13,686 candidates equal to 1.43 per cent did not sit for the exams due to several reasons including sickness, and according to Dr Msonde they will sit for their examinations next year.
The NECTA boss was quick to point out that 733,103 candidates passed their examinations by between 100 and 150 marks.
"The number of candidates who passed is equal to 77.72 percent out of which 382,830 are girls (77.12) and boys are 350,272 (78.38 per cent).
In 2017, the percentage of candidates who passed was 72.76 per cent, meaning there is an increment of 4.96 per cent this year. Statistics from NECTA further show that pass rates had significantly increased in Language, Science and Mathematics by between 4.03 and 11.92 per cent compared to results in 2017.
He added that Kiswahili had the top score with 85.42 per cent and that the subject that received poor performance was English Language (49.63 per cent).
The top ten candidates and their schools in brackets are Ndemezo Lubonankebe (Kadama), Innocent Seleli (Carmel), Given Malyango (Tumaini Junior), Diomedes Mbogo (St Achileus Kiwanuka), Sweetbert John (Mingas), Najma Manji (Nyamuge), Beatrice Jeremiah (Mapinduzi B), Mohammed Mohammed (Raskazone), Luqman Ally (Raskazone) and Francisco Alphonce Maiga).
The top ten schools and their regions in brackets are Raskazone (Tanga), Nyamuge (Mwanza), Twibhoki (Mara), Kwema Modern (Shinyanga), Rocken Hill (Shinyanga), St Anne Marie (Dar es Salaam), Jkibira (Kagera), St Achileus Kiwanuka (Kagera), St Severine (Kagera) and Reikiza (Kagera).
NECTA further listed the top ten regions in the results as Dar es Salaam, Geita, Arusha, Kilimanjaro, Kagera, Mwanza, Iringa, Mtwara, Katavi and Njombe.
