Africa-Press – Mauritius. Out of the 7,528 school candidates in the Republic of Mauritius, who sat for the Cambridge Higher School Certificate (HSC) Examinations 2023, among whom 4,483 were female candidates and 3,045 male candidates, 6,354 were successful, representing a pass rate of 84.40%.
The Director of the Mauritius Examination Syndicate (MES), Mrs Brenda Thanacoody Soborun, made this announcement this afternoon, during a press conference held at the seat of the MES in Réduit.
Mrs Brenda Thanacoody Soborun further informed that the pass rate among the female candidates of the Republic of Mauritius amounts to 86.37% (3,872 successful candidates), and 81.51% among male candidates (2,482 successful candidates).
As for Mauritius, the pass rate stands at 84.31%, with 86.29% (3,739 candidates) among female candidates and 81.40% (2,402 candidates) among male candidates, she added.
The HSC pass rate for Rodrigues stands at 87.30%, with 88.67% (133 candidates) among female candidates, and 85.11% (80 candidates) among male candidates, indicated the Director of the MES.
Sharing her in-depth analysis of the Cambridge HSC results 2023 in comparison to those of 2019, she highlighted that an increase of 9.45% pass rate can be noted in the performance of candidates of the Republic of Mauritius, with a pass rate of 74.95% in 2019 as well as in the performance of the candidates of Mauritius, whereby an increase of 9.10% has been noted, following the 2019 pass rate which stood at 75.21%.
Similarly, for Rodrigues, a drastic increase of 19.38% in the pass rate can be noted, when comparison is made with the 2019 success rate of 67.92%, she observed.
The Director explained that the 2023 Cambridge HSC results are being compared to the 2019 performance, due to the fact that with the prevalence of COVID-19, special considerations were applied by Cambridge International Education during the previous past years. She also underlined that all the 37 HSC Professional candidates successfully passed their examinations.
As regards schools with more than 95% success rates, they include: Royal College Curepipe (100%); Queen Elizabeth College (97.35%); Dr Maurice Curé State College (97.39%); Droopnath Ramphul State College (95.54%); Loreto College – Curepipe (97.03%); and Loreto College – Quatre-Bornes (95.24%).
2023 Cambridge HSC performance subject-wise Pass rate
Business: 73.7% Chemistry: 82.8% Economics: 81.6% Literature in English: 82.0% Mathematics: 86.8% Physics: 85.7% Sociology: 77.7% Design & Tech: 94.8% English General Paper: 94.4%
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