By Albertina Nakale
WINDHOEK – The Ministry of Education has announced that the results for the Grade 12 higher level full-time and part time candidates for 2014 will be officially released on Thursday following good progress with the marking and processing of the examination data.
In a statement issued on Friday, the ministry said this year 46 346 candidates comprising of 35 592 full-time and 10 754 part-time candidates were registered for the Junior Secondary Certificate (Grade 10) examination at 656 junior secondary schools and 159 part-time tuition centres.
The number of markers involved in the marking of the Grade 10 answer scripts was 1 527 in 2014.
A total of 12 164 of the 57 096 candidates (full-time and part-time combined) entered for one or more NSSC Higher Level subjects.
The number of Higher Level candidates increased by 439 (3.7 percent) when compared to 2013. A total number of 225 markers were involved in the marking of the Grade 12 Higher Level subjects.
The ministry also announced that the Grade 12 Ordinary Level results will be released not later than January 16 2015.
“Tremendous progress has been made by the Directorate of National Examinations and Assessment to bring the release of the Grade 12 Ordinary Level as near as possible to the Grade 10 and Grade 12 Higher Level results,” the statement said.
The results will be available on the website of the Directorate National Examinations and Assessment at www.dnea.gov.na, the website of the Ministry of Education www.moe.gov.na and will also be accessible via an SMS service.
The ministry said the following procedure should be followed when using the SMS services. Send a message which gives the name of the examination, for example, JSC followed by the surname and first name of the candidate.
Example (a): JSC Kalomoh Fennie
Example (b): NSSCH Kaperu Theo.
Or write your full examination number, example (a): JSC 101E25002
or example (b): NSSCH 10HE250025.
According to the ministry, such information should be sent to any of the following numbers 2929, 99099 or 55755 and in response the candidate’s surname, name and results will be displayed on the screen of their cellphone.
Both the websites and the SMS service will become active on Thursday, December 18 2014 after midnight at 00h15.
All candidates who were registered for the 2014 national examinations are reminded to have their candidate numbers nearby in order to be able to access their results.
Regional offices will provide a service during office hours by supplying the results from the broadsheets to candidates and relatives who personally visit the regional offices or phone the numbers given on the list.