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Africa-Press – Namibia. <\/strong><\/span>Education minister Anna Nghipondoka has labelled the performance of the part-time grade 12 ordinary and higher-level results for 2021 as \u2018disheartening\u2019. Ordinary candidates performed poorly in most subjects with larger entries.<\/p>\n

English as a second language has about 57% of ungraded candidates, followed by commerce subjects such as accounting, business studies, and economics, of which 30% are ungraded.<\/p>\n

A similar or worse trend is also observed in the overall performance for higher-level candidates across subjects with higher entries. Accounting shows a poor performance with about 87% of candidates ungraded. Mathematics and Geography both have more than 60% of candidates ungraded.<\/p>\n

The results reflect a poor performance across the board, with 28% of candidates not graded. In her announcement of the final round of the 2021 examination results, Nghipondoka said, \u201cthis should be a concern to all stakeholders and requires collaborative efforts to improve the performance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last year, 40 362 candidates sat for the exam across 133 examination centres. This shows a decrease of 1 525 candidates comprising 3.6% compared to 41 887 in 2020. Of all those who registered for the exam, 16 594 were recorded as absent from different subjects.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is disheartening that despite resources allocated for the part-time candidates through the government subvention for their national examination, some candidates were absent,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

She also mentioned that she was informed that the majority of candidates do not attend face-to-face contact sessions that take place during school holidays and they are also reluctant to submit required assessment activities that could assist them to monitor their progress.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is showing a lack of accountability on the part of the candidates by not maximising opportunities granted towards successful completion of their education, despite the second chance offered,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

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