{The Ministry of Education has said that results of 1,079 candidates for the year 2016 have been cancelled due to examination malpractices. }
As the Ministry of Education released 2016 results yesterday, the deputy director-general in charge of examinations at Rwanda Education Board (REB), Emmanuel Muvunyi said that malpractices were realized during exams and marking, explaining that 614 malpractice cases were realized in P6 exams which rose from 455 of previous year while the number of malpractices cases doubled in Ordinary level exams as it rose from 2,016 in 2015 to 465 in 2016.
The State Minister in Charge of Primary and Secondary schools, Isaac Munyakazi said that they recorded cases of students who entered examinations rooms with summarized notes or found similar answers for people who sat close to each other or failed in the same questions.
“Some learners wrote names, numbers on the cover of the notebook yet it is against regulations. If guidelines state that neither name nor number of the student should appear on the notebook yet the candidate deviates, results are cancelled,” he said.
There are sanctions that must be meted to whoever is found responsible for facilitating cheating among candidates.Those who cheated will not have their results published as per our instructions,” he added.
The released results can be accessed through two ways including SMS where a person types P6 or S3 for ordinary level , leave space followed by the registration number of a student and send to 489 or visit the website of REB , click ‘View Exam Results’ and follow guidelines.
For a student found guilty of malpractices in exams, he /she will receive the information “Wahanwe kubera uburiganya mu kizamini.” (you have been punished over malpractices in exams).
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