COSC Results Expected on March 10
  The Cambridge Overseas School Certificate (COSC) results will be released on March 10, The Minister of Education and Training, Mr Mohlabi Tsekoa, has announced. Out of a total number of 7 800 students who sat for the examinations, 3, 947 have passed. Of these 308 candidates obtained first class; 1 282 second class and 2 457 third class.

The announcement of the results was delayed following the discovery of a leak in the Mathematics Paper II and Principles of Accounts question papers in the 2004 examinations.

Announcing the release of the results, the Minister said the number of students suspected to have had access to the Principles of Accounts paper before its due writing date had risen from 41 to 940. A total of 766 students had so far been interviewed on the matter and 35 of  them have been proven to have had access to it  before it was written.

The  results of the students involved in the examination leak will not  be released as investigations continue, Mr Tsekoa said.

09 March 2005
  source: LENA