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Ray Bande
Senior Reporter
THE ZIMBABWE Schools Examination Council (ZIMSEC) Advanced Level 2021 results brought mixed fortunes for Manicaland schools as some of the institutions performed extremely well, while others failed to surpass their 2020 performance.
A synopsis of the results also shows that urban day schools maintained their competitive spirit.
Acting Manicaland Provincial Education Director, Mr Richard Gabaza said very few schools managed to maintain their 2020 performance.
“We have a case of mixed fortunes for Manicaland schools with regards to the just released ‘A’ Level results. A few schools managed to maintain their 2020 performance.
“St Faith’s, St David’s Bonda, St Augustine’s, Mavhudzi and Nyanga High Schools are among the few that managed to surpass their 2020 performance.
“A large number took a drastic nosedive, and these include Kriste Mambo, Emmanuel and St Joseph’s Mutare.
“A few made an attempt to maintain a balance, and these include Chibuwe High and Sakubva 1 High School,” said Mr Gabaza.
He went on to highlight that while boarding schools dominated, urban day schools maintained their competitive spirit for the 2021 ‘A’ Level exams.
“Boarding schools generally dominated the 2021 ‘A’ Level exams but the urban day schools’ competitive spirit is profoundly appreciated. It is also sad that rural day schools were affected drastically due to various reasons that include, but are not limited to lack of Information Communication Technology (ICT) tools, acute shortage of textbooks as well as teaching resources. The Covid-19 induced national lockdowns also had a telling effect on their performance,” said Mr Gabaza.
Manicaland’s torch bearers in high school education, St Faith’s, which had the highest number of candidates with 15 points and above, had 44 such candidates in the 2021, up from the 40 candidates who scored 15 points and above in the 2020 exams.
St Augustine’s also moved up after 23 of the 2021 candidates scored 15 points and above, compared to the 15 candidates who attained the same feat in the 2020 exams.
Nyanga High had 15 students who scored 15 points and above in the 2020 exams and moved up to 18 candidates who attained the same feat in the 2021 exams.
However, Kristen Mambo is among those who nosedived.
While a total of 38 candidates scored 15 points and above in the 2020 exams at the institution, only 18 attained the same feat in 2021.
Makumbe High had eight candidates with 15 points and above in 2020, but only managed to get five in last year’s exams.
One of the biggest downturns came from Emmanuel High School in Nyanga which had 24 candidates with 15 points and above in the 2020 exams, only to settle for two such candidates in the 2021 exams.
Knowstix Academy had 27 candidates who attained 15 points and above in the 2020 exams, but only managed to get 14 in the 2021 exams.
Marange High had six students who attained the same feat in the 2020 exams, compared to only one candidate who got 15 points in the 2021 exams.
Sakubva High 1 had 12 candidates who attained 15 points and above in the 2020 exams but in the 2021 exams, they had one less.
St Dominic’s in Mutare dropped from 20 candidates who had 15 points and above in the 2020 exams to 11 who attained the same feat this time around.
St Joseph’s Mutare had 11 students with 15 points and above in the 2020 exams, but only three managed the same feat in the 2021 exams.
Chipinge’s Chibuwe High maintained a balance of six candidates that had 15 points and above in the 2020 and 2021 exams.
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