Tonga Form Six Certificate (TNFSC) 2019 is now officially released Featured
11 January, 2020. The Ministry of Education and Training wishes to announce that the results of the Tonga Form Six Certificate (TNFSC) 2019 is now officially released.
There were 23 schools (12 schools in Tongatapu and 11 from the outer-islands) that offered the TFSC examinations, of which a total of 1377 candidates were registered.
This is an increase from a total of 1248 candidates in 2018 – and so far the highest number of enrollment in this qualification.
The overall pass rate for TFSC 2019 is 38%. This has been a remarkable drop from the rate of 48% in 2018. A standard pass is English plus three BEST subjects at Achieved Grade.
Tonga High School was the best performing school in the 2019 TFSC Examinations with 61% pass rate. The most improved school was Tailulu College (Vava‘u) with 56% pass rate, which is a 20% improvement from 2018.
The school with the most candidates enrolled in the TFSC was Liahona High School with a total of 192 candidates.
Similar to the Tonga National Form Seven Certificate (TNFSC) 2019, the enrollment trends revealed a decrease in the number of candidates’ opting for the Sciences and Computing & ICT in the TFSC 2019 as compared to other subjects.
The results will be released to the respective schools on 9th January 2020 and can be picked up from the schools on Friday 10th January 2020. The results of the candidates are shown by Grades only.
For information relating to your grades, please contact your school’s principal. For other information, please contact the Ministry on 23-511.
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Good to see the Ministry of Education releasing the summary report on the results of 2019 TFSC Examinations. However, if these results are still based on Raw Marks, as has been in previous years, the comparison between 2018 and 2019 results, or between any years for that matter, are not valid. Raw marks from one year cannot be compared with those from another year, unless the examinations across the years are targeting fixed standards based on the knowledge and skills articulated in the national curriculum (standards-based). This means administering the same examination papers every year as is currently done in Years 4 and 6. Otherwise, this is what the standardisation or scaling process usually does, making marks from one year comparable to those from another year. As for the usefulness of the Form 5 and Form 6 examinations, any information is useful as long as one can guarantee the validity and reliability of such information. Perhaps the Ministry can consult with the various education systems, and the schools, on how it can support schools so they can administer these centrally-developed examinations for the internal use of the schools, especially for the improvement of teaching and learning. Centrally-developed Examination papers (by the Ministry of Education) would undoubtedly be far more reliable and valid than those developed by each school, provided they are targeting the same content and skills as outlined in the national curriculum. Such information can then be used by the schools to identify areas of both teaching and learning weaknesses that can then be used not ony by the schools but by the education authorities to develop school-based as well as national strategies for the overall improvement of student learning.
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A WASTE OF TIME AND MONEY...Stop this useless exercise having students spend time and money sitting for this useless examination: FORM VI. Give them to each school as a preparation for the FORM VII exam, which counts the most.
Low income families cannot afford these examination fees for FORM V, FORM VI, and for FORM VII. The Government cannot coerce ordinary students to prepare and sit for countless examinations. What is the purpose?