08th November 2016 A total of 3,836 senior high school students are sitting their external examinations starting today.
Deputy Director, Ministry of Education, Mr. Isikeli Oko said “a total of 2,093 Form Five students are sitting the Tonga School Certificate Examination, 1,092 students for Tonga Form Six Certificate and 651 students for the Tonga National Form Seven Certificate.”
Oko said majority of the exam students were from Liahona High School followed by Tonga High School.
According to Oko, “30 schools in Tonga are sitting the Form Five TSC examinations, 22 schools for Form Six TFSC and 12 schools for Form Seven TNFSC.”
“There are six examination centers for Form 7 students (one for each island), 20 centers for Form Five students where there are 12 centers at Tongatapu, three at Vava’u, two at Ha’apai and one each at ‘Eua and the Niuas. For Form 6, there are eight centers – four in Tongatapu and one each at Vava’u, Ha’apai, ‘Eua and the Niuas for compulsory subjects,” he stated.
The exam will end on Friday next week.
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Issued by the: Ministry of Meteorology, Energy, Information, Disaster Management, Environment, Climate Change and Communications