BY DRAXON MALOYA

The Ministry of Education in conjunction with the Malawi National Examinations Board (Maneb) has released the last year’s Malawi Schools Certificate Examinations (MSCE) results.

Out of 136, 247 candidates who sat for the examination, in at least six subjects including English, 84, 009 candidates have qualified for the award of an MSCE certificate representing a 61.66% pass rate.

In a press release Maneb released indicates that out of’ the 62,441 female candidates who sat for the examination in at least six subjects including English, 34, 837 candidates have qualified for the award of MSCE, representing a 55.79% pass rate.

The release further state that out of the 73,806 male candidates who sat for the examination in at least six subjects including English, 49, 172 candidates have qualified for the award of the MSCE, representing 66.62% pass rate.

 A total of 80, 318 internal candidates who sat for the examination in at least six subjects including English, 51,770 candidates have qualified for the award of MSCE, representing a 64.46% pass rate.

Also 22,937 external candidates who sat for the examination in at least six subjects including English, 13,327 candidates have qualified for the award of MSCE, representing a 58.10% pass rate.

Last year’s examinations had a total of 32, 992 Open candidates who sat for the examination in at least six subjects including English, 18,912 candidates have qualified for the award of MSCE, representing a 57.32% pass rate.

The 2021 exams had a total of 415 Special Needs Education candidates who sat for the examinations, 227 have passed the examination representing 54.70% pass rate.

In this category 214 were females and 107 have passed representing 50.00% pass rate while 207 were males and 120 have passed representing 59.70% pass rate.

Some candidates were disqualified for a number of reasons while 1979 candidates have their results withheld pending investigations. The letter ‘W’ appears against the names of such candidates on the pass/fail list.

Maneb further inform candidates that all those who wrote the examination without following proper entry procedures have not been graded and their results do not appear on the pass/fail list.

Meanwhile, all candidates are informed that their results are available in all Education Division Offices, District Education Offices and in all Public and Grant- Aided Secondary Schools.

Any queries about the MSCE results must be routed to MANEB through the Head Teachers at schools where candidates wrote their examinations. MANEB will not entertain queries about the results made directly to the Board by candidates or any other individual.

Maneb expects all queries to reach it by November 2021. After this date, no further queries will be entertained