Bida Elly David
Female candidates in Central Equatoria State have outperformed their male counterparts in the recent Certificate of Secondary Education (CSE).
The results showed that out of 13,894 candidates who sat for the examination in the State, 13,546 passed with a 94.7 percent average performance.
Out of the 5,692 who sat, 5,582 passed with a 98.1% average while for the male candidates, 8,203 sat and 7,964 passed making a 97.1 percent passing average.
Juba Diocesan Model Secondary School (JDMSS) is the best-performing school with an 85.8 percent average followed by Salaam SS with an 85.3% average.
Performance index by subjects indicated commerce as the best-performed subject followed by Biology and Chemistry projecting English and Arabic Languages as poorly performed Subjects.
Private schools in the state have performed better than public schools.
“Private schools had 11,170 candidates where 10,989 passed giving 98.4% of average while public schools consisted of 2,423 candidates who sat and 2289 of them passed with 94.5% of average,” the index reads.
Cirisio Zakaria Lado, the state minister of general education and instructions pledged to invest more in private schools.
He warned schools against charging students to check their academic results.
“We have heard that some schools are charging learners for checking results. This is a bad practice. Charges for production of the certificate in the ministry is a bit fair but no school should collect money for checking results,’’ he said.