The Ebonyi State governmentsays secondary school students in the state must have 95 per cent class attendance to qualify to writethe West African Examinations Council (WAEC)and the National Examinations Council (NECO)examinations.
The Commissioner for Education, Mr Ndubuisi Chibueze-Agbo, told newsmen in Abakaliki yesterday that the policy wasintroduced to discourage truancy and indolence amongthe candidates.
According to him, many of the candidates who register for the examinations abandon classes, only to appear on the days they havepapers.
He said such unwholesome attitude could undermine the ongoing reform in the education sub sector and the government would not tolerate it.
Chibueze-Agbo said class attendance was part of the continuous assessment and wondered why candidates would prefer to abscond fromschool after duly registering for the exams.
He said school principals have been directed to send class attendance registers of Senior Secondary School 3 students across the state to the Ministry of Education on aweekly basis for regular inspection.
The commissioner said the state government was determined to sustain the present status of Ebonyi as an examination malpractice free state.
``Those candidates who deliberately abscond from classes are those who have perfected plans to cheat in the exams. We are very stricton checking class attendanceof our WAEC and NECO candidates and those who do not have up to 95 per cent class attendance will not be allowed to write the examinations. We will do anything within the ambit of the law to curb examination malpractice in the state,’’ he said. (NAN)


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