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Ray Bande
Senior Reporter
THE Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education in Manicaland has admitted that ‘the counting under pressure and the need to release the results to schools’ led to a few errors noted in the Grade Seven results published recently.
Manicaland Provincial Education Director, Mr Edward Shumba confirmed that, as reported earlier on, Mutare Junior School has a total of 53 candidates who attained six units in last year’s Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (ZIMSEC) Grade Seven national exams – the highest in Manicaland.
However, he said Baring Primary, which is in second place, had 19 candidates with six units instead of the 18 reported earlier.
Another school in Mutare, Chancellor Junior came third with 16 learners who attained six units and is tied in that position with Mt Mellary of Nyanga who also have the same number of learners who attained six units.
John Cowie of Rusape is in fifth position with 13 candidates, followed by Chikanga Primary in sixth position which had a total 10 candidates who attained six units.
Chikanga Primary had initially been erroneously omitted on the list.
Chipinge Primary is seventh position with seven learners, while Mutare’s St Josephs’ Primary is also in the same position with the same number of candidates who attained the same feat.
The initial report had indicated that St Joseph’s Mutare has five candidates with six units.
Hartzell Primary is in ninth position with six learners.
Roman Catholic-run St Judes Primary School and privately owned Milestone had a total of five learners who got six unit,s making them the 10th best school in Manicaland.
Next on the list is Rusape’s St Josephs’ Primary, Tsanzaguru, Mutarazi Junior, Three Brigade and Chisamba primary schools that had four learners with six units.
Mr Shumba said: “It was counting under pressure and the need to release the results to schools that resulted in the errors. We sincerely apologise to the schools that had their results mistakenly miscounted.”
With six subjects now being sat for in the ZIMSEC Grade Seven national examinations, attaining six units becomes the best possible mark of results.
A total of 163 candidates managed to achieve that feat in Manicaland.
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