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Hargeysa,
Somaliland, September 19, 2009 (SL Times) – Somaliland’s Minister of
Education, Mr Hassan H. Mahmud Warsame (Hassan Gadh-weyne) announced
yesterday the official results of the 2008/09 national examinations for
high school and middle schools.
The minister said that the results of this year’s examinations are much
better than last year and he attributed this improvement to the combined
efforts of teachers, administrators and students. He added that 3174 sat
for the high school exam and 3000 of them passed whereas 174 failed,
which means 94.5% passed. Moreover, 8142 students took the middle
schools exam and 7402 of them passed.
In an event marking the official release of the results of the exams,
the head of the National Examination Office, Mr Daud Ahmed Farah said, “
This is the tenth year we hold a national exam for the high schools but
it is the fourteenth year that we have an exam for the middle schools,
so the middle schools have been holding exams longer.”
Mr Daud Ahmed Farah cited the following changes in this year’s exams
compared to previous years:
1-The overall number of students has increased, especially in middle
schools
2-Private schools have joined in taking the national exams
3-Students were allowed to choose whether they want to be examined in
the art section or the science section
Daud Ahmed Farah added that results show students have performed better
this year than previous years, especially in science and mathematics. He
added that no big problem cropped up in this year’s examinations but he
did point to the problem of cell phones being brought to classes, and
the proctor may end up collecting as much as 150 cell phones then it
becomes hard to sort out which one belonged to whom at the end of the
exams.
Then the Minister of Education, Hasan H. Mahmud Warsame addressed the
audience. He said, “Today, we hereby release the official results of the
2008/09 exams that have been corrected and that we now release to the
media.” The minister called this year’s results a victory. He especially
thanked AET and UNICEF for their invaluable assistance to education in
Somaliland.
The names of the ten high school students that got the highest grades
and the names of the five female students that got the highest grades as
well as the name of SOS school which has the overall highest grades were
announced.
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