WBG STUDENTS START SOUTH SUDAN EXAMS Tuesday, 23 April 2013 14:51 | Students of Western Bahr El Ghazal State on Monday started the first South Sudan Secondary School Certificate Examinations with Religious Studies and Geography.
The exercise kicked off in ten examinations centres at the state level Voice of Hope Radio reported. Within Wau Municipality and Raja County 1,980 candidates are sitting for the examinations. The candidates comprise 1,032 boys, 624 girls and 885 candidates from private schools. The State Governor Rizik Zachariah Hassan rang the inauguration bell at Wau Complex. He encouraged the candidates to have the state at their hearts while doing examinations. He advised the candidates to relax and concentrate because the examinations were set by South Sudanese academicians and that it will be marked locally. The governor expressed his confidence on the South Sudanese who set the examinations and who will mark them. Last year, WBGS positioned its self number one nationwide in Sudanese Secondary School Exams. Some candidates after completing their papers complained of the bad examinations setting. Natale Palatino said the first papers were difficult because he was expecting flexible questions when he was asked to draw a map of the seven churches, which was not taught to them. Thomas Nicola said that that paper came in accordance with the syllabus but the way questions were set was complicated because most students expected exams to take Khartoum style of last year. He said piloting test should have been done before the actual exams. This is the first South Sudan Secondary School Certificate examinations set after the delay of Sudanese Secondary School Certificate examinations. Juba and Khartoum signed agreement which allows South Sudanese students to sit for Sudanese Secondary School Certificate examinations till 2014, but did not materialize. < Prev Next > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
