Necta annuls 2,000 primary school exam results

Necta’s acting executive secretary, Mr Athumani Amasi briefing journalists in Dar es Salaam on recently. PHOTO | FILE

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  • The council has suspended 24 exam centres, equivalent to 0.13 percent of the 17,935 exam centres/schools, that were proven to have planned and cheated in the exam (PSLE) 2022.

Dar es Salaam. The National Examination Council of Tanzania (Necta) has canceled all the results of 2,194 candidates in this year’s Primary School Leaving Examinations (PSLE).

The number accounts for 0.16 percent of the 1,350,881 candidates who took this year’s PSLE.

The results were annulled due to cheating in the exams held on October 5 and 6, this year.

Necta’s acting executive secretary, Mr Athumani Amasi, said on Thursday, while announcing the PSLE 2022 results, that they have prevented the release of the results of 540 candidates from six examination centres in Dar es Salaam Region, who are accused of cheating.

"They will have to wait until the investigation is completed and if they are found to have cheated, their results will be canceled according to article No. 4(8) of the 2016 examination regulations. Should they be found not to have cheated, they will be given their results," he said.

The council has suspended 24 exam centres, equivalent to 0.13 percent of the 17,935 exam centres/schools, that were proven to have planned and cheated in the exam (PSLE) 2022.

 "Necta will conduct a detailed analysis of these 2022 results for each subject and provide the results of the analysis that will be presented to education stakeholders, including all primary schools in the country with the aim of enabling teachers to use them to improve teaching and learning in schools," he said.