Examination writing season

Safeguarding the integrity of the examinations is non negotiable. The one simple and unadorned message to all schools is that the rules of the game should be followed to the letter. To this end, every effort should be made by all parties involved to ensure that all the examination processes and protocols are meticulously and professionally managed.

While examinations should be respected and treated with a high degree of seriousness students should, however, remain calm and composed. The object of examinations is not to cause panic and fear or expose weaknesses of candidates. Examinations are students friendly in nature and were never designed to be much of a surprise. They are anchored in the main on familiar and known terrain, testing and seeking feedback on the road the students traversed not once but many times during the course of their programme of study.