Islamic religion knowledge results released

BY FRANK KIMARO

The Islamic Educational Panel(IEP) has announced the results for students who sit for Islamic Religion Knowledge at primary level country wide.

There are 1,746 schools in 24 regions and 81 districts did the exam compared to 519 schools which did the exam last year.In all schools 55,557 candidates did the exam while in last year there were 24,892.

Speaking to the reporters yesterday the IEP chief coordinator Mr Suleyman Daudi said the results of this year are not good enough to compare with last year and this year there is consolidation in the way of teaching.

“even though there are many students this year more than last year  the performance is moderate compared to last year.” He said

    The chief coordinator of IEP Suleyman Daudi speaking to journalists in

 IPC maelezo

Dar es salaam is a leading region for having good number of candidates. It has  22,896 candidates followed by Tabora which is having 4,280 and then Kilimanjaro having 3,589 candidates.

The chief coordinator said there are number of students who did well in the exam and there are eighteen students who are mentioned as the best scores in the country. The top three are Khamis Omar who scored 98% from Wete,Rehema Karungi scored 92% from Muleba and Mohamed Athumani who scored 90% from Ilala.

Meanwhile the students have been urged to learn the Islamic religion knowledge subject as it is among the fundamental of moral principles in our society.