Primary results
Adnan / driknews
This is for the first time the country has witnessed the public examination of primary school students of class five drawing appreciation and little criticism for the authorities concerned, 88.84 percent students passed in the examination. It is encouraging to see that the number of first division holders outnumbers the second and third division holders. Out of these graduates, 50 thousand will get talent-pool and general scholarship which is undoubtedly an innovative idea to increase the quality of education. In the past there was no arrangement to know about the merit of primary school goers nationwide and uniformly. Only the students (barely 40 percent) who participated in the scholarship exams were considered as the brighter students and the whole school and teachers focused their attention on them. The rest 60 percent remained neglected. Now all will get almost equal attention in the class. Teachers' responsibility has also been brought under stocktaking. The chronic weakness in Mathematics and English has been proved once again in this public examination. No student passed from 1,937 schools. Two lakh students failed and they failed mainly in English and Mathematics, though 10 to 13 grace marks were given to boost the pass percentage. To conduct such a massive examination is definitely a tremendous job on the part of the government. So, it deserves thanks and appreciation from all of us.
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