The Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) has been taken to court by irate parents after it nullified the 2017 Ordinary Level results for the entire stream at Nagle House High School in Marondera. The examinations body made the decision after coming across evidence which suggests that some students had cheated in the exams. Two students from the school were allegedly found in possession of prepared answers for Mathematics Paper 1 which was written last year. 24 students from the school have already been arrested and their case of exam fraud is still pending at the courts. The students were arrested after examiners noted uncanny similarities in their answers.
However, parents of 19 other students have taken the exams body to the High Court arguing that it was unjustified in cancelling the results for the entire stream as it was punishing innocent students for the crimes committed by a few. The parents are suing the minister of primary and secondary education, Zimsec and Nagle House school head Alexio Kurisa. They are the first, second and third respondents respectively. Part of the parents’ court papers read:
There is reasonable apprehension that if the conduct of the second respondent (Zimsec) of cancelling all results of the applicants (students) for no apparent reason is not reversed, they are all going to fail to enrol for ‘A’ Level which enrolment is set to start in a few days to come.
The second respondent cancelled all results of the applicants’ subjects, including all other subjects they had sat for in November exams. The second respondent did so despite the fact that all applicants were not caught cheating in the examination room but only two students were the only who did so.
The second respondents should have just cancelled the results of those students rather than cancelling the results of the applicants who were innocent and who had nothing to do with the unlawful actions of their co-students.
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This must not affect innocent students must only affect those who did this
True that ,they should deal with those guys who cheated cause it’s not fair for us as students we are waiting for the results and it’s taking forever
The entire School should be punished, this is a game played by School heads to lure students to their schools using higher pass rates at their schools. Zimsec should not give up and if they change their stance, it meets they are lowering the entire education standard in our Secondary School. This is the works of the lazy school heads and their teachers. Thumps up to ZIMSEC.
hey pedzai nyaya dzenyu toda maresults edu isu