The Sunday News
THE Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) has withheld some results for November 2015 Advanced Level examinations for several schools amid suspicion that candidates might have cheated, Sunday News can reveal.
Zimsec raised queries on Chemistry, Literature in English and Divinity for several schools.
The move evoked panic among hundreds of students who failed to get their results last week. Among some of the schools whose results were withheld are Silveira, St Antony and Pamushana High Schools all in Masvingo Province.
At Silveira High School in Bikita district candidates who sat for Chemistry failed to get their results at the same time with others, as Zimsec investigated suspected cheating at the school. Zimsec suspected teachers could have assisted pupils for chemistry practicals, which are Paper 2 and 3 and are done at the schools.
Sunday News has it on good authority that Divinity results for Pamushana High School were also withheld while students at St Antony High School had their Literature in English missing as Zimsec investigated suspected malpractice.
Zimsec public relations manager Mrs Nicky Dlamini confirmed that several schools around the country had their results withheld as the council investigated suspected cheating. However, she said the results have since been released.
“The results which were withheld were held pending investigations which were underway. The results for the centres you mentioned and others have all since been released from the beginning of this week. There has been no student that has been affected as all the results have since been availed,” she said.
This was not the first time that Zimsec withheld results from schools on suspicion of cheating. In 2014 the council withheld November 2013 O and A-level examination results for Kriste Mambo and Zimuto High Schools after suspected cheating.
Last year, the examination body also withheld November 2014 O-level results for all pupils under Beam over fees owed.
