More than 46,000 or 16.29% of the students who sat the Grade five scholarship exam, failed to obtain even 50 marks out of the total of 200, the Department of Examinations has revealed. According to the Department’s statistics and analysis report, of these 46,000 students, 7264 obtained less than 20 marks out of a total of 200.Â
Only 11.95% of the 283,737 students who sat the examination were able to reach the cut off mark of 150 for Sinhala medium students, and 143 for Tamil medium students. Nearly 250,000 students failed the examination.Â
Meanwhile, only 813 students received over 181 marks while 13,959 received more than 161. 362 students scored zero.Â
However, Department of Examinations Chief Anura Edirisinghe told The Sunday Times that despite these dismal figures, a substantially higher percentage of students had passed the examination in comparison with the past five years.Â
“About 12% of students passed the examination this year despite the cut off mark being raised from an average of 143 to 150,†he said.Â
A total of 33,894 students got marks above the cut off mark, in comparison to 23,467 and 23,132 in 2005 and 2006 respectively. This indicates a 4% increase in the number of students passing the examination despite the total number of candidates this year being less than in 2006.Â
Jaffna District reported the highest success rate amongst candidates who sat the examination with 14.92% managing to get the required cut off mark. Gampaha and Kurunegala districts followed with success rates of 14.77% and 14.76% respectively. Colombo district was placed 13th with just 11.49% of the students getting the cut off mark while Killinochchi District reported the lowest percentage of just 5.52%.Â
Source: http://www.sundaytimes.lk/070930/News/news00018.htmlÂ
5 Comments
Justmal
Doesn’t necessarily mean that Colombo kids aren’t as smart as the others. The best students are already in the elite national or international schools and they don’t sit this scholarship exam.
Mastering Sinhala/Tamil and algebra doesn’t make you smart.
Bandara
I thought now every child sits for the Grade 5 scholarship, including those in the ‘popular’ national schools. Is it not?
Also as far as I know it is not just for mother tongue and Mathematics any more, but covers all the sections and there is a good weightage for English too. (I know this because some years before my niece was saying she could score 100% in English, but lost marks in other sections)
Please correct me if I am wrong.
mahadevan
Congratulations. Again the Jaffna kids have proved to be the ‘Wizkids’ in this country, which nobody can deny. Keep it up.
Mai
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