The government has said that the number of children who have taken and passed their Junior Lyceum entrance examination, which was held last May, has now risen to 71% after the resits.

This was the last time that the examination was held, as for the next school year a new national examination will come into force as was proposed in the reform of the transition from Primary to Secondary school.

The government went on to say that on the 30th of July the resits were held for the admission to Form 1 of the Junior Lyceum for those children who had failed one subject in the May session. From the 339 applicants who were eligible, 138 for Mathematics and 201 in English, 7 were absent from the Mathematics exam and 5 were absent from the English exam.

Of those who stayed for a supplementary examination , there were 35 in Mathematics and 79 in English who passed. This meant that a pass rate of 33.6% was achieved.

The government concluded by saying that the total number of children who have achieved success in entrance examination in the Junior Lyceum entrance examination for this year totaled 2,122. which was an increase of 3.8% on the May pass rate of 67.2%.

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