GCE Board stands tall with timely publication of results

From Carine Takusi, on special assignment in Buea 

 

Monono Humphrey Ekema: GCE Board registrar

Officials of the Cameroon General Certificate of Education Board have matched words with action by promptly releasing results of the 2014 June session of examinations organized by the board. The results were declared last Saturday afternoon in Buea by the emblematic and awards-winning GCE board registrar, Sir Humphrey Ekema Monono.

The release of the results prior to the August 3 deadline set by the board simply comes to reconfirms the board’s position as the best state institution in the country for high standards management skills. Many are candidates and parents who have expressed satisfaction with the sudden and timely publication of the results. “I was not expecting the results today. It came like a surprise to me. I thought the results were going to be released by August 15. But there we are today! I am so happy I made it…The board is wonderful”, Gembane Juliet, a successful candidate told The Guardian Post.

In a press briefing that followed the publication of the results, Monono first of all took out time to immensely thank internal and external collaborators for their support towards the success recorded in the conduct of the examination. The registrar expressed outmost satisfaction with the Advanced Level GCE technical results, which he said has always been on the increase. Monono could not hide his delight for schools that scored 100% at this year’s GCE exams.

Unlike in previous years when candidates had to wait for another day or more to get their results on newspapers or pay exorbitant amounts to middlemen who mischievously got the results, this year’s results was easily dispatched to candidates by SMS (Short Message Services) at a relatively cheaper  rate.

With the new innovation that has been widely-saluted by both parents and students, candidates simply have to send their centre and candidate numbers without any punctuation marks to 8070 and wait for a while to get their results. For example, if a candidate’s number and his centre number respectively are: 1012 and 3012, he will have to compose: 10123012 and then send to 8070 and wait for his or her results in just a while.  

Also, the registrar intimated that results booklets have already been sent to the various centres, while individual result slips will be available in their respective schools by latest Wednesday August 6, 2014.

Succinct results statistics

Going by statistics obtained from the GCE board, Advanced Level General recorded 64%, up from 56% last year, while Advanced Level Technical scored 56 as against 65% last year. As for the Ordinary Level, the percentage passed dropped from 45% last year to 35% this year.

Reacting to the poor results recorded at the Ordinary Level this year, a seemingly crest-fallen Humphrey Monono blamed it partly on the candidates’ youthful age and the fact that many schools are cropping up without sufficient and well-trained teachers to teach the students. Hear Monono: “As a parent and the registrar of the GCE Board, l feel greatly saddened by the poor results recorded at the Ordinary Level. My plea to parents also is that they should not abandon their young children to themselves and the teachers…”