Over 500 SSCSE Candidates To Sit For Exams In EES 574 candidates drawn from 14 senior secondary schools constituting of 13 centers across Eastern Equatoria State are expected to sit for South Sudanese Certificate for Secondary Education (SSCSE) from 5th to 19h December 2011. The acting Secretary for EES Secondary Examinations has announced.04 December 2011 Dr. John Garang Memorial school Students during a past event [©Gurtong]By Peter Lokale Nakimangole TORIT, 4th December 2011 [Gurtong] – 574 candidates drawn from 14 senior secondary schools constituting of 13 centers across Eastern Equatoria State are expected to sit for South Sudanese Certificate for Secondary Education (SSCSE) from 5th to 19h December 2011. The acting Secretary for EES Secondary Examinations has announced.
Mr. Genesis Ohide Otelmoi explained to Gurtong at his office that the State is administering SSCSE with a new curriculum for the first time after being initiated by the South Sudanese Education experts hence steadily changing from the Sudan’s education system. He disclosed that as part of the preparations, deployment of examinations supervisors and invigilators to their respective centres has been done ahead of time. Torit Day secondary school has 142 male and 31 female candidates respectively, St. Bakhita has 26 registered candidates, Chukudum has 27 candidates and Chukudum Progressive has 22 respectively. St. Augustine secondary school has registered 34 candidates, Magwi secondary school has 57 candidates and Agola secondary school has 31 candidates. Lobone and Nyongwa schools have 28 and 18 registered candidates respectively while Borongole, Loa and Fulla schools have 5, 34 and 72 registered candidates respectively with Nile progressive and Nimule Model having 27 and 20 registered candidates respectively. The EES’ acting Director for Quality Promotion and Innovation in the ministry of Education, Science and Technology, Mr. Joseph Ruo Abuni explained that 13 chief invigilators, 20 invigilators, 9 police officers and 4 State monitors are now set to administer the examinations. Mr. Otelmoi disclosed to Gurtong that some candidates shall sit for 9 subjects while others 7 and 8 as the minimum requirement based on their selection. He clarified that English, Mathematics and Christian Religion Education or Islamic Religion Education (CRE/IRE) are compulsory to all registered candidates. Otelmoi categorized the subjects as Science (Chemistry, Biology & Physics), Arts (Geography, History, Commerce, CRE/IRE), Principle of Accounts, General Science and Agriculture. He said that General Science and Agriculture are optional subjects; students can choose either to abandon both or take one of them or both in their examinations. Mr. Otelmoi disclosed that out of the 33 invigilators deployed to the centres, each centre shall required 2 – 6 invigilators. Although EES has gradually adapted the new South Sudanese system since 2008, Mr. Ruo told Gurtong in the last years of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, the State had mixed curricula from other Countries but EES has phased them out completely. Posted in: Home, Education CommentsThere are currently no comments, be the first to post one. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/SouthSudanKob?hl=en.
