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Grade 5 Scholarship exam candidates exceeding Cut-off mark declines
View(s):Grade 5 scholarship exam candidates who qualified to receive bursaries and become eligible to apply to established schools, has been on the decrease in the past few years, Education Ministry statistics reveal.
According to statistics, of the 327,648 candidates who sat for the exam in 2014, nearly 32,750 or 9.99% obtained above the cut-off marks, while in 2013, it was 10.12% and 10.76% in 2012.
Meanwhile, the percentage of candidates who obtained 70% and above in the Southern, Western, Central, Northern and Eastern Provinces at the 2014 exam are 83.1%, 80.8%, 76.45%, 70.57% and 68.05% respectively.
The Grade 5 scholarship exam results were released on September 27.