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Today, more than 96 thousand students completed the ordinary and advanced level national exams , the number of registered candidates increased this year}.
The Rwanda education board confirmed that the total number of candidates to sit-in for the final exams- including Ordinary level and advanced level- is precisely 96.376.
The national exams kicked off this morning.
Over 65(65,325) are sitting for the 9 year basic final exam, compared to last year. Specifically, there has been an increase of 14.8% , while 31(31,O53) are sitting for the secondary six final examination with a decrease of 8.1% compared to last year.
The number of private school students sitting-in for the advanced level final exam decreased by 67.8% compared to last year, the exact figures are 4374 to 1409, the previous figure reflects this year’s number. The decrease in the previous figures is a result of the decisions from the REB, in consequence to the behaviors of these candidates.
Another cause of the decline in number of the advanced level candidates was because some of the students had skipped the ordinary level examination. Therefore, 5800 were required to first complete their Ordinary level final exams before they can proceed to another level.
Richard Mugarura
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