{"id":3000,"date":"2026-08-15T05:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T05:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/?p=3000"},"modified":"2026-08-15T05:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T05:45:07","slug":"primary-lower-secondary-exam-results-set-for-aug-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/15\/primary-lower-secondary-exam-results-set-for-aug-18\/politics\/national\/","title":{"rendered":"Primary, lower secondary exam results set for Aug. 18"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"781\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ggg-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3001\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ggg-2.jpg 781w, https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ggg-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ggg-2-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 781px) 100vw, 781px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Results of the 2025-26 national examinations for primary and lower secondary students will be released Aug. 18 at 3 p.m., the Ministry of Education said Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The results will be announced ahead of the start of the 2026-27 academic year, which is scheduled for Sept. 7, 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A total of 277,452 students sat for the national primary school examinations held July 7-9, according to the ministry. They included 154,351 girls and 123,101 boys who took the exams at 1,182 sites across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More than 900 students with disabilities also took the examinations under arrangements adapted to their disabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The national primary examinations were launched at Remera Catholic Primary School in Kigali by Education Minister Joseph Nsengimana. A total of 553 students sat for the exams at the school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the lower secondary level, 149,533 students were expected to sit for the 2025-26 national examinations, according to the National Examination and School Inspection Authority, known as NESA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The candidates included 85,587 girls and 63,946 boys from public and private schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Results of the 2025-26 national examinations for primary and lower secondary students will be released Aug. 18 at 3 p.m., the Ministry of Education said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,53,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current_affairs","category-featured-stories","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3002,"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3000\/revisions\/3002"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}