{"id":9580,"date":"2018-07-24T08:15:04","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T08:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=9580"},"modified":"2018-07-25T09:45:06","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T09:45:06","slug":"burundi-final-year-post-fundamental-school-students-demand-state-exam-calendar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/burundi-final-year-post-fundamental-school-students-demand-state-exam-calendar\/","title":{"rendered":"Burundi: Final Year Post-Fundamental School Students Demand State Exam Calendar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Graders in the final year of the post-fundamental school in Burundi say they are disturbed by the fact that the date for the state exam which gives the successful students access to higher education, has not so far been set. \u201cWe don\u2019t know when we will do the state exam and this disrupt our revision\u201d, says Kerry Gladys Ntirampeba, a scientific section candidate at Lyc\u00e9e du Saint Esprit, north of Bujumbura. She says they are preparing exams without knowing when they will sit for them&#8221;. If the date were known, we would review seriously\u201d, she says.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9573\" style=\"width: 475px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9573\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-9573\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Bigirimana-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"Final year graders in post-fundamental school continue to revise although they haven\u2019t so far known the exact date when they will sit for the exams. \" width=\"465\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Bigirimana-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Bigirimana-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Bigirimana-600x345.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Bigirimana.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 465px) 100vw, 465px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9573\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Final year graders in post-fundamental school continue to revise although they haven\u2019t so far known the exact date when they will sit for the exams.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Another candidate from Lyc\u00e9e Municipal Kibenga, in Muha Commune, south of Bujumbura, says students are not motivated given that they haven\u2019t so far known the exact date when they will sit for the exams. \u201cA student prepares his\/her exam seriously when s\/he knows the date on which s\/he will be examined,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Ngendakuriyo, a teacher at \u201cLyc\u00e9e du Saint Esprit\u201d says knowing in advance the date of the test benefits the students a lot. \u201cIt helps them revise seriously,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>Juma Edouard, Spokesman for the Ministry of Education says the calendar will be announced soon. \u201cAll the information that is being relayed on social media about the state exam calendar is nothing but rumor,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graders in the final year of the post-fundamental school in Burundi say they are disturbed by the fact that the date for the state exam which gives the successful students access to higher education, has not so far been set. \u201cWe don\u2019t know when we will do the state exam and this disrupt our revision\u201d, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":9573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[108,113],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9580"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9581,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9580\/revisions\/9581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}