Necta releases 2022 Standard 7 results
What you need to know:
- A total of 1,350,881 candidates (97.59 percent) of those who registered took the exam
Dar es Salaam. At least 79.62 percent of candidates, who sat for this year’s Primary School Leaving Examinations (PSLE), have passed.
This represents a total of 1,073,402 candidates out of 1,348,073 that sat for the PSLE this year, the National Examination Council of Tanzania (Necta) announced Thursday, December 1, 2022.
Mr Athumani Amasi, Necta's acting executive secretary, revealed the 2022 PSLE results, saying that among the successful candidates were 558,825 girls (78.91 percent) and 514,577 boys (80.41 percent).
"In 2021, the successful candidates were 907,802 equal to 81.97 percent. Thus, statistically, there is a 2.35 percent decrease in performance even though the number of successful candidates has increased by 165,600 (18.24 percent) compared to 2021," he said.
This year, a total of 1,384,186 primary school candidates were registered to take the exam, including 723,027 girls, equal to 52.23 percent, and 661,159 boys, equal to 47.77 percent. 4,221 candidates, or 0. 30%, had special needs.
A total of 1,350,881 candidates (97.59 percent) of those who registered took the exam. Among them, girls were 709,556 (98.14 percent) and boys were 641,325 (97.00 percent). 33,305 candidates, equal to 2.41 percent, did not take the exam due to various reasons, including absenteeism and illness, of which 13,471 were girls and 19,834 were boys, noted Mr Amasi.
