How successful was the WMO Special Marriage School this year?

 

How successful was the WMO Special Marriage School this year?

11 October

The Special Marriage School of the Oromia Development Association (ODA) has announced that 99.3% of the students who sat for the 12th grade national examination have passed with more than half the total marks.

Director General of the Oromia Development Association, Dajanee Itichaa, told the BBC that 99.3 per cent of the 144 students who sat for the Grade 12 national examination passed.

“Although our association has been scoring high marks nationally since 2009, our success has never been as evident as last year and this year,” he said.

The WMO Special Boarding School in Adair offered 89 male and 55 female students for the examination this year. Of these, 14 males and 6 females, a total of 20 students, scored more than 600 out of 700 marks, he said. Last year, 21 students scored over

Hannah Naji, a student of Cruz City School, scored 649 out of 700 marks in the Grade 12 examination. The Oromia Development Association said the highest score recorded by its student this year was

The Ministry of Education said in a statement on Sunday that five special schools have passed all their students.

They are Addis Alemaayehu Special Boarding School in Dabra Markoo, Dasee Special Boarding School, Bahir Dar Sitem School, Hayer Niizee School in Silxe district and Lichee Gugu Special Boarding School in Hadiyya.

Education Minister Professor Birhanu said five other schools have passed more than 95 percent of their students.

As a result, ODA Special Marriage School has become one of the top 10 schools in the country, he said

“The era of Rajifa Caala and others, who scored 649, 647 marks, has been scoring high marks since 2009 till now.”

He added that the government has taken steps to reduce examination fraud by making changes in the examination system and helped the performance of students and the school to be revealed.

Last year, 21 students from his school scored over 600 marks, he said, adding, “These students are now studying in Dubai with the opportunity facilitated by the Prime Minister of Ethiopia.”

Most of the WMO Special Bullying students scored between 550-599 marks, Dajane said.

'We were expecting more than 600 students but it went down'

The Special Marriage School of the Oromia Development Association (ODA) did not achieve 100 percent pass rate among the students who sat for the examination due to health and family problems faced by its student who was expected to get high marks.

Of the 144 students who took the test, only one female student, whom he said was the "strongest," scored less than half of the 700 total.

Mr. Dajane said the student has received recognition and educational opportunities from a foreign institution for her research on medicine and has also written a book.

“Fortunately, this student was one of the highest scorers, her own drug was tested in a laboratory at a foreign university and she got the opportunity to study.

Dajaneen said they were helping the student, whose name has not been released, to sit for the examination.

'Our school is sharing experiences nationally'

WMO Special Marriage School is not only changing the education system, he said, adding that his students are succeeding wherever they go and is becoming a basis of experience for other schools in the country.

He said he also shared experiences with the recently built special schools in various states that have been able to get up to 10th grade this year.

“Dase Special Boarding School and both Financial Boarding Schools took experience from us.”

He said it is having a positive impact on education in the Oromia Region.

“It has created a great sense of competition among students in public and private schools to get into this school.”

The sense of competition at the lower levels of education will play a role in bringing about the quality of education, he said.

“Our school is the inspiration and input of experience for the Ministry of Education to go beyond its role to build 50 Special Marriage Schools across the country.”