GCE 2021:Tradition Respected

Over 170,000 students across the country are in full trot in the written part of the 2021 General Certificate of Education, GCE Ordinary and Advanced Level and Technical Vocational Education (TVE) Intermediate examination.

Candidates started the exercise with Economics for the Ordinary Level and Geology and Economics for the Advanced Level.

The exercise which started last Tuesday, June 29 has been going on hitch free in the various accommodation centres across the country.

In Yaounde, the Minister of Secondary Education, Professor Nalova Lyonga expressed satisfaction with the conduct of the exams after touring some of the accommodation centres in town.

At the Government Bilingual High School Yaounde, where authorities put in place the necessary dispositions to ensure the examination takes place in strict respect of the COVID-19 barrier measures.

Hand washing points and hand sanitizers were placed at the entrance of centre while face masks were also made available for students or teachers who did not possess masks. Social distancing is equally respected at the centre with a maximum of 24 students allowed per class.

At the Government Bilingual High School Nkol Eton, about 600 students are taking part in the exercise; 489 at the Ordinary Level.

After making a tour of the various centres, the Minister of Secondary Education said "tradition" had been respected and couldn't have been more proud with what she had seen.

"All I can say is that tradition has been reassured. The candidates were all on time, started and ended on time and we hope his goes on like that. I was impressed with the measures put in place and I am happy all the barrier measures were respected," Prof Nalova Lyonga said.

In the North West Region, candidates are equally in the groove after joining their counterparts for the exercise.

According to the North West Regional Delegate of Secondary Education, Roland Ngwang Yuven, the exercise has been going on hitch free in all seven divisions of the region with security beefed up. He added that participation in the examination has witnessed a sharp increase this year from 14, 000 candidates to over 20,000 candidates.

It is the same atmosphere of calm and serenity that is prevailing is the various accommodation centres in the South West Region as students in that part of the country equally joined their counterparts last Tuesday to begin writing the examination. At one of the Bilingual Grammar School, Buea, one of the accommodation centres, the exercise has been going on smoothly except for a few absences recorded on the first day, according to the chief of centre. In total, 30,141 candidates are writing the GCE Ordinary and Advanced Level examination in the South West Region while 7146 others embarked on the Technical Vocational Education (TVE) Intermediate exams.