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Loveness Bepete Chronicle Reporter
THE November 2014 Advanced Level examinations results are out and have since been dispatched to the Zimbabwe School Examinations Council regional offices. Candidates who sat for the examinations will be able to collect their results from their schools from today, Zimsec Director Esau Nhandara said yesterday.
He said there was an 82,6 percent pass rate compared to 81,6 percent in 2013.
“The Zimbabwe School Examinations Council board and Management would like to notify the nation of the release of the Zimsec Advanced level results. The November 2014 Advanced level examinations were conducted without any incidents of leakages or malpractice nationwide and as Zimsec, we would like to applaud the centre heads for a job well done,” Nhandara said.
He added that a total number of 30, 614 pupils sat for the November 2014 examination while in 2013 there were 31,479 candidates.
Nhandara said there has been a marginal decline in the number of candidates registering for two or more subjects as from 2013.
“The number of school candidates who wrote two or more subjects at “A” Level in 2013 were 31,479 while in 2014 they were 30,614, a decrease of 865 candidates which is 2,75percent. The pass rate for 2013 was 81,58percent and for 2014 was 82,61percent and the almost constant pass rate could mean that the candidates were exposed to the same learning conditions for the two years they were preparing for examinations,” he said.
He applauded girls for performing better than boys last year.
There was an 86,7 percent pass rate for girls compared to a 79,9 percent attained by boys.
“It was pleasing to note that the performance of girls in 2014 was better than that for boys though the number of girls who wrote two or more subjects for both school and private candidates was less than that of the boys,” said Nhandara.
He said last year’s general performance was excellent except for Geography which had a pass rate of 36,01 percent.
He attributed the failure to the decision by some students who attempt to sit for the Geography examination while they would have poorly performed at Ordinary level.
“This failure rate in Geography could be that a good number of candidates failed the subject at ‘O’ Level or achieved a low pass rate,” he said.
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