Sals pleased with last year’s A-level results |28 January 2016

The School of Advanced Level Studies (Sals) has welcomed the 2015 A-level examination results, saying it is pleased with the performance of the candidates.

Sals says it is particularly pleased to note that there was a slight increase in the number of A* grades over the previous year.  

Out of a total of 163 candidates who sat for the examinations, two students achieved A* grade and an A grade in their four chosen subjects, two students achieved A* grade in two of their three chosen subjects, and Grade A in the third, and two students achieved Grade A in their three chosen subjects.

Forty-one students obtained the required eighteen (18) points for progression to further studies.

Overall, the pass rate was 89%.

The percentage of students achieving Grade C or higher was 41%.

Welcoming these positive A-Level examination results, the school says it is still its objective, as well as that of the Ministry of Education, to take appropriate measures to achieve a significant increase in the percentage of students achieving at the highest possible standards in the A-Level examinations in the years ahead.

This key objective is reflected in the targets set out in the Ministry of Education’s ‘Medium-Term Strategy 2013-17 and beyond’.

“The implementation of the ministry’s strategy and the realisation of these targets will require a committed and sustained contribution from both the Ministry of Education and the management and staff at the Sals. It will also require a serious commitment and focus from the A-Level students, and their parents and teachers, so that the overall quality of the grades achieved across all subjects will be further enhanced,” says Sals in a communiqué.

The Ministry of Education expects that the measures it has already initiated to implement the Sals 'transformation' programme will soon begin to impact on all aspects of the governance, administration, teaching and learning remit of the Sals, thereby leading to a significant increase in the quality of upper secondary education provided, and in the standards achieved by the students in the years ahead.

The Ministry of Education and the management and staff of Sals have congratulated the 2015 cohort of students for their hard work and achievements, and wished them well in their further studies and future careers.

The Ministry of Education also wishes to thank the management and teachers at Sals for their commitment to this important educational endeavor at the upper-secondary level in the Seychelles education system, and to acknowledge in a special way the encouragement and support provided by the students’ parents and other stakeholders.