THE Acting Education Officer for Iringa Municipality (Primary Schools) Salimin Mndeme, said lots of pupils did poorly in the subjects of English and Mathematics who completed primary education in 2016.
He said Monday that the subjects that candidates did well are Kiswahili, social studies and science.
However, the acting education officer said that the Municipality of Iringa has a shortage of specialist teachers in the subjects of English and Mathematics probably that is the reason many pupils did poorly in these subjects.
Mndeme said order to increase operational efficiency for teachers in these subjects; the government should provide regular seminars (ie in-service training program) for teachers in the subjects of English and mathematics.
"The pass rate of the candidates who did the exams to finish primary education (PSLE) 2016 in Iringa Municipal, Iringa Region has increased compared to last year, where performance for last year is the 87.43 percentage, while previous year (2015), it was 85 percent, an increase of percent 2.43., "he said.
He said that the increase in performance last year in Iringa Municipality is due to the successful implementation of the program of major impact of big results now (BRN) initiated by the government recently.
He said that students who passed in 2016 is 2,998 (1,414 boys and 1,584 girls), adding that all pupils who passed last year have been selected to join Form One in 2017.
He said that the Municipality of Iringa has a total of 50 primary schools, but out of 48 schools, 42 are public schools and six (6) private ones, had the pupils who did the test to finish primary education.
He said that students who join secondary education are those who succeed in division A, B and C whose total is 2,998 all will join secondary school this year.
“The trend of performance has been increasing year after year, for example, in 2014 the pass rate was 82.49 percent, 2015 performance was 85 percent and last year was 87.43 percent,” he explained.
In addition, acting education officer said that a total of 3,440 students (1,624 boys and 1,816 girls) registered to do the test but they did the only 3,429 (1,618 boys and 1,811 girls), equivalent to 99.7 percent did the exam.
In that exam candidates were tested in five subjects which are Kiswahili, Social Studies, English, Mathematics and Science.
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