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The South Sudan National Examinations Council has said the marking of the primary leaving examinations papers for the year 2021-2022 will commence next week.
Unlike past South Sudan Certificate of Secondary Education (SSCSE) exams, the 2021 / 2022 CSE examination appears shrouded in mystery. In the first place, planners at the South Sudan National Examinations Council (NEC) had informed the nation that Senior Four candidates would start writing their CSE examination papers on Monday, 18th April 2022. Then, in a surprise twist of events, South Sudanese were informed that the examination papers would start on Wednesday, 20th April 2022!
Pupils in SPLM-IO areas express excitement over start of exams
Pupils who missed out on last week s Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE) in different states of South Sudan due to insecurity have expressed joy as they sat the exams this week.
On February 4, the Minister of General Education and Instruction Awut Deng Acuil announced that the South Sudan National Examinations Council had been alerted of possible examination security threats in most of the SPLM-IO bases in parts of the Jonglei and Upper Nile State.
Following the statement from the minister, education stakeholders across the country expressed concerns over the decision made by the Ministry of General Education and Instruction. A week later, the ministry decided to fix new dates for the conduct of primary eight examinations for the pupils that had missed out on the initial exams.