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The suspense in students and parents alike, has been broken following the release of results of the 2016/2017 General Certificate of Education exams.
The information was made public in a Communiqué signed by the Education boss Jean Ernest Messina Ngalle Bibehe himself.
Statistics of the performance shows that, for the GCE advanced level, 38000 candidates registered, 33037 candidates sat the exams. 11670 passed with a percentage pass of 35.52%. The results witnessed a drastic drop compared to 2016 were some 46000 candidates registered and 43000 sat the exams and 29000 passed, giving a percentage pass of 66.52%.
Some results have been held for malpractices. Results of candidates who sat without prior registration have been withheld in other to verify their authenticity. Candidates can get to their centers to get results.
For the technical GCE, 3472 candidates registered, 2567 wrote and just 574 passed with a percentage passed of 22.36% as against 54.33% in 2016.
However, many critiques have heavily blamed the low success rate on the Anglophone crisis, which paralysed the education sector throughout the two Anglophone regions for most of the academic year.
Students were forced out of academic business as threats from unknown sources created untold panic in parents and students alike.
Even those that snubbed the untold tension that existed at the period of writing of the exams, sat the exams under tight security, a factor which many claim might have affected the psychological balance of candidates.
By LVV
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