Std Four rating exams produce good science result, ‘poor’ English.

Necta Executive Secretary, Dr.Charles Msonde 

THE National Examinations Council of Tanzania (NECTA) yesterday announced the National Standard Four Examination Assessment results whereas candidates recorded highest performance in science and lowest in English Language.

NECTA Executive Secretary Dr Charles Msonde told reporters in Dar es Salaam yesterday that the assessments are for the national examinations whereas 977,886 pupils sat on November 25 and 26 last year, following the re-introduction of the exams.

He said Dar es Salaam topped the national performance on regional category, Mwanza Alliance School emerge d tops in school category whereas Frank Christian Mgeta of Twibhoki Primary School in Mara emerged the overall best pupil.

Dr Msonde said 1,037,305 were registered for the assessment exams but 59,419, or 5.73 per cent, did not sit for a number of reasons, including truancy and sickness.

He added that as per the Std Four National Assessment (SFNA), the pupils did well in science subjects by 89.44 per cent compared to English Language whose performance was 65.67 per cent.

Kiswahili comes second with pass mark of 88 per cent, Social Studies 86, Vocational Studies 84.6 and Basic Mathematics 73.73 per cent.

The top ten pupils and their schools in brackets are Mgeta (Twibhoki), Salim Rashid (Hazina), Musa Christian (Alliance), Ezekiel Gilu (Waja Springs), Martha Nkwimba (Tusiime), Lamech Nsulwa and Rajab Mhoja Hamis (Rocken Hill), Charles Luhumbika (Kwema), Mathias Amos and Idd Athuman Masudi (Alliance).

The top ten regions are Dar es Salaam, Iringa, Kilimanjaro, Njombe, Arusha, Tanga, Geita, Kagera, Mwanza and Shinyanga. The top ten schools are Alliance (Mwanza), Waja Spring (Geita), St Peter (Kagera), Tumaini (Mwanza), Furaha (Mwanza), Acacia Land (Tabora), Tusiime (Dar es Salaam), Imani (Kilimanjaro), Kaizirege (Kagera) and Ebenezer (Kilimanjaro).

Dr Msonde said 869,057 out of the 977,886 pupils, which is 88.87 per cent of those who sat for the SFNA passed by grades A, B, C and D, while 108,829, or 11.13 per cent, got E grade, which is a poor performance.

He called upon teachers and pupils to take the assessment exams as a tool with which they should use to improve performance in the subjects in which they did not perform well and that teachers should give special attention to slow learners so that they catch up with the needed performance.