Almost half of MSCE candidates fail exam: Only 1 scoops 6 points
Almost half of the candidates who sat for this year’s Malawi School Certificate of Examination (MSCE) have failed, further raising debate of education standards in the country.
According to Malawi National Examination Board (Maneb), out of the 92 867 candidates who sat for the examination, 46 771 have passed, representing a 50. 36 per cent pass rate.
A total of 98 332 candidates registered for the examination but 92 867 sat.
The announcement of the results was done by Minister of Education, Science and Technology, Dr William Susuwele Banda
The Minister said out of the 41 708 female candidates who sat for the examination, 17 887 have passed representing a 42.89 per cent pass rate.
The examination management body also says out of the 51 159 male candidates who sat for this examination, 28884 candidates passed representing a 56. 46 pass rate.
Only one student from Zomba Catholic Secondary School, Arthur Promise Chibondo, has scooped six points.
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The curriculum was designed in such a way that assessment will include continuous assessment. May be if that was included spanning a period of 4 years, the final results could have improved. someone should sue MANEB/ MoEST on this.
What do you expect from a country that has no leadership in government? Everything is going in the wrong direction apart from the first ladies bank balance.
Made me giggle with laughter on your comment….
This is not a true reflection of the performance of students the passing percentage should be around 20 tom30% not as announced by maneb those are doctored results, Do a research the whole country and check the end of term results for the same students who seem to have passed you will be shocked and i even challenge maneb to show the raw grades from marked scripts just to prove that they are not cheating the Nation.
The results tells the whole story. Those are the correct standards of Malawi. Google and check the how it stands on the world universities where university of Malawi falls, let alone on the African chart. The best graduates the country had are those who started at Chichiri then those who graduated the first 3 to 6 years after moving to Chirunga. The reason behind that was because three quarters of the lecturers were wazungus.
Check the period when late Matembo Mzunda was dean of the faculty of law, most law graduates were from the north. He was saying those from the other two regions were dull. After his being appointed minister there came a crop of law graduates from across the country, why??
Late Donton Mkandawire also contributed to the sugar-coating results from the north. Ask me what he was qualified in as the Director of Maneb? Donton left Domasi T.T.C to go to Australia to study Physical Education. That is where/how he got his PhD. and married a white woman. Lero nkhanga zaona. Ena mwa aziphunzitsi akulepheretsa ana lerowa ndi omwewo okokerawo.
Meaning the dudes who have failed are std 8 graduates ?kkkkkkk koma Nyasaland
Only one 6 points student from Zombaaa???NOT from Chaminadhee???Arthur Promise Chibondo ?????Not Chimaliro from Karongaaa or Rumphi!! Is this QUARTER AGAIN????KKKKKK,Nzeru sizaaTumbuka pera !!!!Wali yose wali namahara kkkkkk.Standard 8 kkkk from Phalombe kkkk not from Mzimba or Karonga or Runphi kkkkk?????
Saanati aLomwe akulowelerani muchipinda kkkkkk.Munatchera kumwezi aTumbuka nkhanga zaona kkkk.Palibe zaPhwezi yapaa!!!Chaminadheee yapa,Ekwendeni yapaaa kkkk koma waLomwe kkkkk.Bravo South kkkkkk.ARevrend Nyondo mukuti chianiii ?????mumanamiza kkkkkk????
@Mwini …It is Such DPP myopic and twisted Thinking which has Destroyed Malawi.While am not happy that my St Patricks-Mzedi is not in the Top Ten …Chamenade mutodana nayoyo is there at 7 points.Let Brains Go to School not Tribes.Quota system is Only affecting Poor Parents who can’t afford to Pay for their Kids Higher Education .Achina Nyondo mukuwanenawo Ana awo amatophunzira ku Scotland mpaka ma Masters..
.They only Fight for those who have Brains but are being Frustrated because the Powers that Be have decided Tribes should be …number one Criteria for Higher Education.
It just shows Maneb is not applying consistent grading standards across years. Something is definitely wrong at Maneb.
MANEB or the teachers?
NORTHERN REGION 9.2%
CENTRAL 18.5%
SOUTHERN REGION 72.3%
SO I HERE!!!
@Chilaz
Those numbers you have listed, are they the pass rates or something else? Like, are they the percentage of students from the regions in secondary schools?
Here needs to know.
Congratulations my fellow from BOCCO for scooping 6 points. It shows that Box 2 is still the same no change from time back upnto now.
So if we have more geniuses coming from the SOUTH, then QUOTA SYS MAY CONTINUE!!!!
Ana akhoza bwanji bwino opanda kuyesela pa JC ?How can a child write final exams opandako kumuyesako pakatipa
So the education geniuses are now coming from the South. Highest in the primary from Mulanje, Highest MSCE Zomba. Very interesting this academic SHIFT!!!!
This is because of Mtambo
Nanga aja amatumbwa pa wailesi kuti Maranatha Academy ana akulutulka ndi ma 6 points lero ali kuti?
Maneb should go back to our old fathers teaching methodology, like bringing back the JUMPCAREFULLY(JC) because pupils were thoroughly warming up for the senior stage (MSCE). Tanx
tn’x for this interesting news!
wtfk!, dude aint from NORTH?! Mtambo n looser comrades kayende.
My view is: Our students had memorised that old syllabus with all its questions. The so called best schools used to complete the MSCE syllabus in form 3 second term and then they spent the whole form 4 doing (helping their students memorise) past papers. I am not saying our students are dull but the questions(syllabus) had been in use for far too long. i mean the syllubus may remain unchanged for sometime but the maneb guys should learn how to come up with new questions often enough to avoid memorisation. again removal of JC has contributed greatly to this poor perfomance. some of the guys who have failed here would have been in form 3 now waiting for their turn next year, but they would have been seriously preparing for it as their repeat at JC would have given them a warning.
Because they used to memorise that old syllabus that is why we used to have so many 6 points. so this time around everything was all new. if maneb keeps this new syllubus(and the questions) intact for, say 10 years, you see those 6 points guys coming again.