From Tuesday, July 23 to August 2, 2024, a total of 235,572 students have started the secondary school national examinations designed to evaluate learning outcomes in lower and upper secondary education.
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The national launch took place at G.S Remera Protestant in Kicukiro District.
This year’s examination is special because it is the first time that the students of the Associate Nursing Program (ANP), from the seven schools where the program started, are going to sit for the national exams for the first time.
Minister of Education, Twagirayezu Gaspard, highlighted the first cohort of ANP candidates taking examinations this year and expressed high expectations for the program, emphasizing the importance of evaluating its success based on student results.
“We have high expectations for this program, particularly in the education sector. We will assess its effectiveness based on the students’ results to determine if it has been well-prepared, and how we can improve it going forward,” he said.
He noted that the ministry has been monitoring the cohort and is optimistic about the program’s effectiveness based on feedback from practical exams done in June.
According to the National Examinations and School Inspection Authority (NESA), 143,842 O-Level candidates (63,546 males and 80,298 females) from 1,968 schools will sit for exams at 681 centers. Additionally, 56,537 A-Level candidates (23,651 males and 32,886 females) from 857 schools will take the exams across 516 centers.
In the Technical Secondary Schools (TSS), 30,922 candidates (16,842 males and 14,080 females) from 331 schools will be examined across 201 centers.
Teacher Training Colleges have 4,068 candidates (1,798 males and 2,270 females) from 16 schools, and Advanced National Professional (ANP) schools have 203 candidates (114 males and 89 females) from seven schools.
National exams are held every year. The score a student gets is the one that helps him go to the high school class or University.