The Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development (MEHRD) on Monday 13th January 2025, released the National Examination and Placement Results for Years 9,11 and 12.
This was after the Minister of Education, Hon. Tozen Leokana signed off the release of the results.
This is in accordance with section 64 (1) of the Education Act 2023, Part 3, Division 1(20)(1) and 3(22)(1) which provides provisions for the Secondary Education Certificate Scheme.
In his statement, Hon Leokana congratulated all the students for their successful examination results despite the many obstacles that may affected their learning. He also noted the challenges the staff of the National Examination and Assessment Division encountered in the administration of the examinations, and thanked the staff for their commitment to sort, analyse and release the 2024 cohort of students’ examination and placement results.
He stated that from the results presented – there will be a lot of excitement as well as concerns raised about students’ academic performance and the standards achieved, which call for more effort from everyone – students, teachers, education providers, parents and the MEHRD to improve students learning or performance in the subjects they study.
The result is a demonstration of students’ hard work and support from parents, guardians and teachings staff in the schools throughout the country.
The Minister stated that the MEHRD is delighted to highlight the significance of our students’ performances in the 2024 National Examinations.
On gender performance there is similar performance by both gender in year 9 and year 11 while in year 12 male performed better than females across most subjects.
The percentage of 2024 cohorts that pass year 9 is 57.1 percent while year 11 (41.2 %) and year 12 (19 %). This is rather a dismally poor performance by the 2025 cohort of students and is a great concern to the Ministry.
Female continue to dominate the highest score in each qualification compared to their male counterparts. At year 9, the highest achiever is a female with an achieved total aggregate score of 354 out of 400. At Year 11, highest achiever is also a female with a total aggregate score of 560 out of 600. At year 12, the highest achiever is also a female student with a total aggregate score of 439 out of 500.
For per subject at Year 9 – the percentage of candidates achieving at and above the average subject score of 50 is in the Social Studies paper and the least percentage is in Mathematic and Science. This is a continued trend compared to the 2023 results.
For year 11 the top three subjects that have highest percentage of students achieving at and above average of 50 are Science (88.3%), Home Economics (85.2%) and Industrial Arts (77.9 %).
For Year 12, the highest percent of candidate achieving at and above the average score of 50 are Computer Studies 90.4%), Design Technology (78.7%) and Physics (77.1 %). Subject with smallest percentage of the cohort achieving at and above the average of 50 are Economics and history. Just above 50 percent of the cohort are achieving at and above the average score of 50 in the Science (Accounting, Biology, Chemistry, Agriculture), indicating a strong interest in Science at Year 12 despite challenges with access to Science teaching resources in schools.
The ministry acknowledges that access to secondary education is still a challenge and would need collective effort of stakeholders to ensure increased access by our children to complete secondary education.
The percentage of students placed to next level from year 9 is 57.1 percent which slightly above an average while year 11 is 41.2 percent and year 12 is 19 percent.
This attributes to the availability of space in our senior secondary schools. It certainly does not reflect outstanding capabilities of our senior secondary students across our schools.
There were number of individual successes at all ability levels and behind every set of examination result there is a personal story of hard work, commitment and perseverance which we are keen to celebrate. Hence, MEHRD wish to celebrate this progress with all our students today.
These results now allow our students to take the next step in their education endeavor.
– MEHRD
