Hundreds of secondary school students fail end of year exam, parliament told
Sunday, February 5, 2017 - 21:54
The failure of hundreds of Form 5, 6 and 7 students in their 2016 end of the year examination was one of several controversial issues that the Tongan Parliament heard when it opened for its 2017 session last week on Monday, 30 January. The Popua Park earthworks and Pacific Games infrastructure delays were other hot issues.
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So standardising marks would
So standardising marks would pass students even though they failed i.e. got more answers wrong than right? I dont know, back when I did my exams if I passed it meant I got more answers right than wrong.
Was the exam set too hard? Was the course material that was taught in the classroom for the whole year totally not related to what was coming in the exam?
Tired of the same problem
Tired of the same problem being discussed as if it was something NEW!!! Raw Marks was already doomed before it even started!! Was the Ministry of Education and all its stakeholders prepared for the change? Ok let me be clearer - were the teachers, examiners, markers, students, etc, trained to accomodate the NEW system? Thank you for messing with our children's life! And stop the ad hoc argument that Education was really bad before- Nifi e kae Nafa e- E e kae F eni! Tonga's Doomed Youth! - Kalala Unu