The Ministry of Education, Science, Vocational Training and Early Education has announced the 2012 grade 12 joint School certificate and General certificate results.
Announcing the results at the Ministry headquarters today, Education, Science, Vocational Training and Early Education Minister John Phiri disclose that out of the 103,853 candidates who sat for the 2012 grade 12 examination 60,318 obtained full School certificate and 41,307 obtained the General Certificate of Education while 2,227 failed the examination.
Dr Phiri further disclosed that out of the 60,319 who obtained full School certificates 35,453 were males and 24,866 were females.
The Minister said the percentage of the candidates who obtained full School certificates has decreased compared to 59.87 percent in 2011 to 58.08 percent in 2012 with a marginal drop of 1.79 percent.
However, The Minister revealed that the number of candidates who sat for the grade 12 examinations in 2012 has increased to 98.1 percent compared to 97.7 percent in 2011.
He attributed the increase of candidates who sat for the grade 12 examinations to good policies initiated by the government such as re-entry, bursary schemes for the vulnerable and improved learning environments arising from the supply of school desks.
Dr Phiri also cited the improved teacher pupil ratio following the regular teacher recruitment and deployment by the ministry.
Meanwhile, Dr Phiri revealed that out of the 41,307 candidates who obtained General Certificate of Education, 21,924 were males while 19,383 were females.
He explained that the number of candidates who obtained General Certificate Education has increased to 39.77 percent in 2012 compared to 38.5 percent in 2011making an increase of 1.27 percent.
In a related development, Dr Phiri announced that out of the 2,227 candidates who failed the examinations, 1,252 were males and 975 were females representing a 2.14 percent failure rate.
He stated that the failure rate has decreased by 0.56 percent over that of 2011 which stood at 1.58 percent.
The Minister attributed the increase of the failure rate to lack of commitment by candidates who sat for the examination.
On candidate’s absenteeism, Dr Phiri said the rate of absenteeism has decreased by 0.42 percent compared to 2011 when the rate stood at 2.28 percent.
Dr Phiri also said out of the 1,972 candidates who were absent, 1,084 were males while 888 were females.
And on examination malpractices, the Minister said 316 cases were recorded in 2012 showing an increase compared to 267 cases of examination malpractices in 2011.
Meanwhile the Ministry of Education, Science, Vocational Training and Early Education says it is concerned with the performance of the grade 12 candidates who sat for the joint School certificate and General certificate results.
Dr Phiri said the pass performance of 40 percent was worrying to the ministry and he has since directed the Directorate of Open and Distance Education to speed up the implementation of the alternative secondary school programme which is being carried out by the Zambia College of Distance Education in Luanshya.
He explained that the modules will cover all subjects from grade 8 to 12 adding that the modules will make it easier for the pupils to read ahead of the examination.
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Lovely ! Welcome to the real world boys and girls where bursaries and demonstrations becomes the order of the day if you are lucky enough to get into one of our colleges and universities.
Kukosa bane elyo mwayamba ukusambilila. Good lucky
Good indication, atleast more pipo have G12 certificates in Zambia now..
WHY MALPRACTICES? AND LOOKING AT THE CASES INVOLVED IT CLEARLY SHOWS THAT NOTHING IS BEING DONE ABOUT IT. BUT WHY ????????
Welcome to the Real ‘Donchi Kubeba’. Start looking for employment Ladies n Gents.
And don’t be used by Politicians…!
I have to say great…my fellow country men and women do not be used by HH,N MUMBA and the clique, they do not mean well at all…lets rally behind our president SATA… those who want to jump the fence into plot 1 will fail miserably..thank you..
By the way Ka mushota calm your tits…
SOME OF THE USELESS, JOBLESS PEOPLE LIKE YOU SHOULD NOT BE MAKING STUPID COMMENTS ON GOOD STORIES LIKE THIS.. EVER SINCE U GRADUATED HOW MUCH MONEY HAS SATA GIVEN YOU?? HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE STUCK WITHOUT JOBS AFTER GRADUATING???
BTW WHEN I SAY GRADUATING, U DON’T COUNT BCUZ U WENT THROUGH THE WINDOW. FYI DON’T JUDGE AND COMPARE MY ABBREVIATIONS TO STUPIDNESS, ITS CALLED SUMMARIZING.
no textbooks only teachers notes written in the 70’s
THATS CUZ UR GRZ WAS POOR N VERY SELFISH. NOT FORGETTING STUPIDITY, WHICH ALSO EXPLAINS WHY UP TO NOW MOST THOSE PEOPLE FROM THE 70’S DONT HAVE JOBS AND DEPEND ON CORRUPTION WHICH IS AFFECT US “THIS GENERATION”
It is good to see that a number of girl children are able to attain grade 12 and most of them are passing.Congratulations girl child,boy child too.
I got 22 points in grade 12 and during my time, the exams were tougher.
Considering leakages nowadays my 22 points are like 6 points
This is terrible, either we will see if the people that passed these exams will make it and have PhD like some of us
Thanks
Mavi ya kuku wewe mkundu chafu.Nyamaza kabisa na uache kujigamba kama malaya mzee.
ANOTHER USELESS CREATURE MAKING SOME USELESS PROVOCATIVE COMMENT..FIRST OF ALL, FOOL DONT BE PROUD OF UR FAKE 22PNTS CUZ ITS PROB 44PNTS U GOT. SECONDLY, U R DEMEANING THE STUDENTS THAT ACTUALLY SAT AND WROTE TO GET BETTER GRADES THAN YOU OF WHICH THEY WILL FIND A GOOD JOB WHILE ARE STILL SITTING UNDER THAT MANGO TREE HOPING SATA WILL RESCUE.
QUIT MAKING NOISE AND FIND A FACKING JOB AND CONGRATLATE THOZ THAT DID BETA THAN U MAFAKA.
I don’t get the arithmetic. How can the percentage of people who sat for exams increase from 97.7% in 2011 to 98.1% in 2012 while absenteeism increased by 0.42% in the same period? Congrats to teachers. They really work under difficult conditions. I wish the rural community is sensitized on the availability of a bursary scheme.
Wow! Is Zuma the minister of Education in Zambia?
Mushota i love. you are a great entertainer
ba kamba ba Mushota yabufi iyo. 22pts won’t take u to where u deserve, some of us had 9pts with 1s in all subjects except chizungu (5). and for that we’re not where we deserve to be. GOOD LUCK GUYS!
Did M.C .Sata pass this time around? You know you’re supposed to never stop learning ,right?
Mushota, I had 13 points in 1989. Less 15 points was the talk to the community and not 22 points.
The sad bit is that less than 10 000 of all these will enter GRZ higher institutions of learning because successive governments never prioritized University education. Very annoying. PF, please, urgently correct this. A government which cares for its people can be seen by what priority it attaches to education, health and job creation.
Schools of nowadays have gone to the dogs
You guys are old looking at the years am seeing here, forgive me for the language i use sometimes, kutiwatuka abafyashi!!!!!! sorry guys thats one of the side effects of blogging sometimes, you assume someone is your age mate, naimwebene sometimes language mubofnya we cant differentiate!
good results, less jobs more unemployment.
Praise be to God!!! Failure z nt my portion either shud it b yo portion.
Its sad failing even with that leakage.This shows tht pupils dont study at all.
how can he or she said school of nowadays have gone to the dogs?
Thank GOD,am not a
failure