Schools that Rocked

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Monte Cassino you rock! Cool Lifestyle salutes you. A 100 percent pass rate from 82 students. Excellent show. Well done. Wow!
We have run out of superlatives and we promise that we will be dropping on you soon to learn how you do it so we can tell the rest of the teens the secret.

We also love Anderson Secondary School with 97,1 pass rate for 69 students. We figured out that means only two students failed to cut the grade. Sorry peeps, but you can still do it.

We also want to say St Peters Mbare Secondary School and Mucheke No 2 Ndarama Secondary School for showing that the day schools are not play centres.

Thank you all the teens who studied hard and a big pom-pom to the teachers who made sure that it all came together.

There are some schools in Zimbabwe that have made it a well-established tradition to produce the highest pass rates, and it is a feat that they have been repeating, maintaining and sometimes even surpassing them each year.

Parents also do their research and homework thoroughly when they want to enrol their children and some even opt to leave a
lot of good schools in big cities like Harare and Bulawayo and take their children to schools as far as Nyanga just in pursuit of quality education.

Some of the schools who are in the tradition of making it into the top 10 are mission-run schools whose record of attaining the highest pass rates date back to the colonial era where the missionaries inculcated in their students a spirit of studying and working hard while at the same time upholding strict Christian morals and principles.

Such schools were therefore, and still are, conducive to learning, as students can spend their years in school productively without being exposed to some issues that can disturb their studies.

Some of these schools are boarding schools and in some instances, can be a boys or girls’ only school, a situation which keeps children away from engaging in relationships which can affect their studies.

Some schools also have a reputation of having good boarding facilities, a well-stocked library, good sanitation, school transport, a fine sports heritage etc.

This can contribute to a child’s good learning environment whereby children do not have to spend much of their time worrying about the food they are going to eat and where they are going to get their water, instead of concentrating on studies.

These are some of the issues that came into the minds of many people when the Zimbabwe School Examinations Council released results of the November 2013 Ordinary Level examinations, where the overall pass rate was reported to be at 20,72 percent compared to that of 2012 which was pegged at 18,4 percent .

It was also further reported that female students had a percentage pass rate of 18,51 percent while their male counterparts posted 27,41 percent pass rate, making it a difference of 8,9 percent.

Well this year girls rule the roost but fall on numbers. What is 2014 going to show?