2018 Standard Seven exam results released, performance up by 4.96 per cent

Dar es Salaam. The National Examinations Council of Tanzania (Necta) has announced the results of Standard Seven National Examinations on Tuesday, October 23 saying the pass rates have improved by 4.96 per cent.

A total of 733,103 out of 943,318 students who sat for the exams, the equivalent of 77.72 per cent, have passed.

Necta executive secretary Charles Msonde said that 382,830 of those who passed were girls while the remaining 350,273were males.

In comparison with last year’s performance, Dr Msonde said the overall performance has improved to 77.72 per cent this year compared to 72.76 per cent of last year.

In this year’s results, performance in English, Mathematics, Maarifa ya Jamii (Social Studies) and Science improved by 4.03 per cent to 11.92 per cent.

“Performance in Kiswahili has fallen by about 1.44 per cent compared to last year’s results,’’ he said.

However according to him the performance of Kiswahili, together with other subjects such as Mathematics, Science, and Maarifa ya Jamii were above average while the performance of English was below the average of 50 per cent.

The Necta boss named Ndemezo Rutakwa Lubonankebe from Kadama Primary School in Geita as the best candidate.

Best performing schools are from Dar es Salaam, Geita, Arusha, Kilimanjaro, Kagera, Mwanza, Iringa, Mtwara, Katavi and Njombe regions.

Necta also nullified results of 357 candidates over what it termed as cheating.