{"id":46716,"date":"2022-09-28T07:21:55","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T07:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/over-39-000-students-to-repeat-school-year\/"},"modified":"2022-09-30T08:34:46","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T08:34:46","slug":"over-39-000-students-to-repeat-school-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/over-39-000-students-to-repeat-school-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 39,000 students to repeat school year after failing national examinations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The details emerged on Tuesday 27th September 2022 as the ministry announced results for primary school and ordinary level national examinations for the year 2021\/2022.  <\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Education, Dr. Valentine Uwamariya has said that a total of 227,472 candidates sat for primary leaving national examinations of whom 125,169 are girls while the number of boys stood at 102,303. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cA total of 206,286 candidates obtained a pass mark, representing 90.69%. This means, the remaining 21,186 equivalent to 9.31% failed. Last year, pupils passed exams at 82.8%. This shows the improvement registered this year,\u201d she said.   <\/p>\n<p>As for ordinary level, only 126,735 sat for exams out of 127,589 registered candidates. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cA total of 108,566 students passed the national exam representing 85.66% while 18,469 representing 14.34% failed exams. Unlike primary national exams, the ordinary level\u2019s performance is below compared to 86.3% registered last year,\u201d said Dr. Uwamariya.   <\/p>\n<p>Of those who passed primary leaving exams, 26,922 received boarding schools while 179,364 were sent to day schools. <\/p>\n<p>Dr. Uwamariya has revealed that all students who failed to secure a pass mark will repeat classes. <\/p>\n<p>Last year, a total of 60,000 who failed primary leaving and ordinary level national examinations also repeated the school year.   <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-44342 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/gusibira.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Uwamariya has revealed that all students who failed to secure a pass mark will repeat classes. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The Ministry of Education has revealed that 39,655 students who failed to secure a pass mark in 2021\/2022 National Examinations are set to repeat the school year.} <\/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-46716","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\/46716","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=46716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46716"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=46716"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=46716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}