Senior students sit Tonga's National Exams after lockdown ends [1]
Thursday, November 11, 2021 - 11:04. Updated on Thursday, November 11, 2021 - 11:05.
By Linny Folau
A day after Tongatapu's one-week lockdown was lifted on Monday night, November 2, over 3,900 senior students began sitting their National Examinations throughout Tonga.
The two-weeks exams are for students in Forms 5, 6 ,7 levels in all secondary schools. The Ministry of Education yesterday confirmed a total of 3,913 students are sitting their exams. (Tongatapu 2,856, Vava'u 605, Ha'apai 206, 'Eua 185 and Niuatoputapu 35, Niuafo'ou 26).
Form 5 students are sitting the Tonga School Certificate (TSC) Examination. Form 6 students sit the Tonga Form Six Certificate (TFSC) Examination and Form 7 sit for the Tonga National Form Seven Certificate (TNFSC) Examination.
On Niuafo'ou, there are 26 exam takers in the Form 5 and 6 levels only.
The Ministry anticipates that the results will be released in early January, 2022.
Meanwhile, the lockdown was lifted after the Ministry of Health confirmed there was no COVID-19 community transmission, following Tonga's first COVID-19 positive case was confirmed in one of the 215 passengers repatriated from Christchurch on October 27.