DATA STORY: 870 fail 2020/21 Certificate of Secondary Education Examinations in South Sudan

By 211 Check Editorial Team

Only 870 candidates out of 33,255 failed the 2020/21 Certificate of Secondary Education Examinations. The results were announced last Friday by Awut Deng Acuil, the Minister of General Education and Instruction who also serves as the chair of the National Examinations Council.
The examination had the highest number of candidates since the country’s independence in 2011. According to the National Examinations Council, 32,385 of the 33,255 candidates who took the exams passed, representing 97.4 percent.

There were 21,917 male candidates, 21,331 of whom passed, 11,338 female candidates, and 11,054 passed.

Eastern Equatoria State had the highest performance index of 79.96 percent, while Upper Nile had the lowest at 67.91 percent.

Christian Religious Education performed best, with a mean score of 91.1 percent and a performance index of 89.3 percent, while French Language and Computer Science performed poorly, with 0.1 percent performance indexes.