{"id":22543,"date":"2016-01-15T09:21:50","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T09:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/girls-outperform-boys-in-national-examination\/"},"modified":"2016-01-19T09:23:29","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T09:23:29","slug":"girls-outperform-boys-in-national-examination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/girls-outperform-boys-in-national-examination\/","title":{"rendered":"Girls outperform boys in national examinations"},"content":{"rendered":"

{Results of primary national examinations show that girls have performed better where the former scored 54% and boys 45.33%, while in ordinary level exams girls that passed were at 51.70% leaving 48.30% for boys.}<\/p>\n

A good 84.82% of pupils that sat for primary six exams passed well while 87.24 ordinary level candidates showed a good performance. <\/p>\n

The ministry of education says that last year some students who registered for exams didn\u2019t sit for them. Primary schools realized 4.5% of absence while 2% missed in ordinary levels.<\/p>\n

{{Primary schools
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Among 160, 357 students who registered for national exams in 2015, 71 998 were boys and 88 355 girls.<\/p>\n

\u201cA total of 136 007 registered candidates have passed successfully. This number equivalent of 84.82 % of candidates. The success has increased compared to last year since in 2014 the success was 84.5% of candidates,\u201d said Olivier Rwamukwaya, the permanent secretary of MINEDUC.<\/p>\n

{{Ordinary level}}<\/p>\n

The ministry of education says that there is a great improvement since pass rate reached 87.24 % compared to 86.56% in 2014.<\/p>\n

At ordinary level, 74 036 students passed; 38 277 girls (51.70 %) and 35 759 boys (48.30%).<\/p>\n

\"Olivier<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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