{"id":43894,"date":"2021-07-13T07:09:28","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T07:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/primary-school-finalists-begin-national-exams\/"},"modified":"2021-07-14T08:08:03","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T08:08:03","slug":"primary-school-finalists-begin-national-exams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/primary-school-finalists-begin-national-exams\/","title":{"rendered":"Primary school finalists begin national exams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As she officially officiated the start of primary six national exams on Monday 12th July 2021; the Minister of Education, Dr. Valentine Uwamariya explained that the situation was unpredictable but commended public collaboration which led to smooth preparations.        <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese learners would have sat for exams in November last year but there has been delays occasioned by COVID-19 pandemic.  We were not sure if it would happen at this time due to emerging circumstances but we are happy for today\u2019s blessing as students finally sit for national exams,\u201d she said.    <\/p>\n<p>\u201cExams starting today will last three days.  More students in ordinary level and upper secondary school finalists will begin exams on 20th July expected to last 10 days.We continue to make possible effort to ensure they don\u2019t miss exams,\u201d added Uwamariya.   <\/p>\n<p>Rwanda confirmed the first Coronavirus case on 14th March 2020. In a bid to prevent the spread of Coronavirus, the Government ordered the closure of all schools that saw all students returning home in March 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Universities and higher learning institutions were allowed to reopen in September 2020 under strict COVID-19 control measures.<\/p>\n<p>In October 2020, the Ministry of Education announced 2nd November as the reopening date for learners in primary 5 and 6 classes. Students from ordinary level, senior 5 and 6 also resumed studies the same day.<\/p>\n<p>The second batch started the second term on 23rd November 2020. This includes learners in primary 4 classes, and secondary school students from senior 1, 2 and 4.<\/p>\n<p>Following the crisis, national exams were also postponed to July 2021. <\/p>\n<p>At least 452,053 are expected to sit for all national exams running from 12th to 30th July 2021.  <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-38880 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/national_exams.jpg\" alt=\"Primary leaving exams started on Monday 12th July 2021.  \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Learners from primary six have begun national exams amidst delays occasioned by COVID-19 pandemic.} <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[72,75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-43894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","tag-featured-news-home","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43894"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=43894"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=43894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}