Grade 7 results are finally out
The marking of the 2012 grade seven examinations has been completed and schools are expected to start receiving the results today. Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (ZIMSEC) chairman, Professor...
View ArticleA’ level results out, pass rate declines
The November 2012 Advanced Level results are out. In a statement, Zimbabwe School Examinations Council director Mr Esau Nhandara said the Advanced Level results had been dispatched to all Zimsec...
View ArticleNovember 2012 O-Level results out
NOVEMBER 2012 Ordinary Level results are out with only 31 767 pupils having attained passes in five subjects out of 172 698 who sat for the public examinations. The pass rate translates to 18,4...
View ArticleColtart responds to 81 percent O level failure rate
Zimbabwe was plunged into serious debate after 81.6 percent of children failed their 2012 Zimbabwe School Examination Council (Zimsec) Ordinary Level examinations, a drop from the previous year’s...
View ArticleZimsec withhold results for exam cheats
HARARE - The Zimbabwe School Examinations Council has withheld some results for 2012 Ordinary and Advanced Level examinations for several schools amid suspicion that candidates cheated, especially...
View ArticleColtart says 18% pass rate is progress
Education, Sport and Culture Minister David Coltart has deplored the fact that nearly 82% of students failed their November 2012 ‘O’ level exams but argues that this was an improvement on 2009, when...
View ArticleBlame quality of teaching in Zimbabwe
It is depressing to hear yet again the dismally low pass rate in the Zimsec exams. The truth is that ever since Zimsec was introduced in 2003 the pass rate has never been higher than 25%.
View ArticleRusape Council officials used forged ‘O Level’ certificates to secure employment
RUSAPE Town Council on Monday cracked the whip on four officials, who allegedly used forged Ordinary Level certificates to secure employment. Its also reported the axe will soon fall on two other...
View ArticleThree Mutoko teachers in the dock for exam fraud
Two senior teachers from Katsande Secondary School and another from Chikukwa Secondary appeared before Mutoko resident magistrate on Tuesday facing charges of Criminal Abuse of Duty as a Public Officer.
View ArticleHistory teacher breaks own record in O-Level results
BULAWAYO - At a time when most people are spitting on the teaching profession and leaving to seek the so-called greener pastures either locally or abroad, this is not so with Ms Thoko Ndebele of...
View ArticlePolice arrest headmistress and five teachers after Midlands exam leak
POLICE have arrested a headmistress at a high school in Zhombe’s Sesombe area in Kwekwe district and five teachers from different schools in the Midlands for allegedly leaking the November O-Level...
View ArticleO’Level results out, pass rate up
The November 2013 Zimbabwe School Examinations Council Ordinary Level results are out, and were yesterday dispatched to regional offices for collection.
View ArticleGrade 7 top 100 schools in Zimbabwe
Twenty-three primary schools, led by Kwekwe-based private school, Camelot Primary, attained an incredible 100 percent pass rate in the November 2013, Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council (Zimsec)...
View Article‘O’ Level top 100 schools in Zimbabwe
HARARE - Monte Cassino Secondary School in Mashonaland East Province produced the best Zimbabwe Schools Examination (Zimsec) November 2013 Ordinary Level results, recording a 100 percent pass rate.
View ArticleManager lands post on fake O-Levels
HARARE - Pick n Pay Kamfinsa customer service manager Tendai Muyambo, who worked for nine years after landing the post using a fake O-Level certificate, was last Friday fined US$100 for the offence....
View ArticleSchools to lose exam status over leakages
Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council (Zimsec) has warned schools that if they leak this year’s examinations they risk being banned from being examination centres.
View ArticleLEAKED EXAMS: NEW DATES SET…Schoolheads barred from carrying papers
SCHOOL headmasters have been barred from handling examination papers in the wake of the leakage of four examanation papers that have prompted a nation-wide re-sit at a cost of over $1 milion. The post...
View ArticleGirls outshine boys in ‘A’ level results
Girls did better than boys in the November A-Level examinations set by the Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (ZIMSEC). The statistics show that girls scored a 74 percent pass rate compared to boys...
View Article‘O’ level results out
The 2014 Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (ZIMSEC) Ordinary Level results are out. The post ‘O’ level results out appeared first on Nehanda Radio.
View ArticlePlumtree High second worst school in Zimbabwe
PLUMTREE High School in Mangwe District, Matabeleland South Province is the country’s second worst school after recording a 33,33 percent pass rate, according to the November 2014 Zimbabwe School...
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