Grade six pupils of Lusaka’s Chainama Special school as they officially commence term two on September 21, 2020 – Picture by Tenson Mkhala
THE Examination Council of Zambia (ECZ) says it is due to release the 2020 grade seven and nine examination results next week.
In an interview, ECZ acting public relations specialist Nicolas Nkhuwa said that the Council was on course to release the results within the first week of February.
He explained that the release of the results was slightly delayed because the 2020 exams were conducted last month rather than in the usual October and November.
“You should know for the fact that the exams were only conducted in December. Previously, exams would be conducted in October and by the first week of December or slightly before Christmas, the results would be out. So, if you can calculate once the exam is written, it takes approximately a month and some weeks to process the results. So, if the exam, for example, the one we are just talking about, which was written from 21st to 24th December and we calculate the time that they completed up to now, we are slightly just under a month. So, there is no delay whatsoever and ECZ has made quite tremendous headways to make sure that these results are processed in good time and are released almost the time schools are open or in the first week when schools open,” said Nkhuwa.