93 percent candidates pass Form Two national exams

A total of 375,434 Form Two candidates an equivalent of 92.6 percent have passed this years’ national examination out of 453,191 candidates while 29,770 of them, equivalent to 7.34 per cent have failed.

This is a 3.32 percent pass increase from 2013 where 422,446, candidates equivalent of 89.34 per cent passed the examinations out of 472,833 candidates.

Announcing the results in Dar es Salaam yesterday, the National Examination Council of Tanzania (NECTA), Executive Secretary Dr Charles Msonde said 405,204 out of 453,191 registered candidates, an equivalent of 89.40 per cent sat for examination while 47,987, an equivalent of 10.60 percent failed.

Dr Msonda said 95,328 candidates, an equivalent of 92.63 of those who passed the examination were girls and 180,106 boys,  equivalent of 92.69 per cent.

He said out of the total number of candidates who registered for examination, 233,834, an equivalent of 51.60 percent were girls, and 219,357, equivalent of 48.40 per cent were boys.

According to NECTA, students with best grades (distinction, Merit and Credit) are 180,965, an equivalent of 44.66 percent with most students still performing poorly below 50 percent in Basic Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Agricultural Science and Commence.

The subjects with higher performance are; Civics, History, Kiswahili and English Language showing 84percent of the pass mark.

Other subjects where students showed a better performance are; Geography, Biology and book-keeping with a pass mark of between 50 and 70 percent.

“Distinction performance was observed in subjects of History with a pass mark record of 90.71 percent while many performed poorly in basic Mathematics with a pass mark record of 18.15percent” he said.

He added “100 marks were scored by 41 students in English language subject; nine of them in Basic Mathematics, one in Biology and another one in Book-keeping