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Archive for October, 2011

Update! Navatkadu 5th Grade Test results for 2011!

Monday, October 10th, 2011

The Government of Sri Lanka has released the results of the national 5th Grade Scholarship Exam. Our efforts to increase the results at the school in Navatkadu, which seemed so successful last year, have yielded a decidedly mixed result in 2011. While there were no losses when compared to last year, 2011 has not been the resounding success we had hoped. The following are my thoughts on what is going on, and what we have decided to do about it.

Last year we threw together this project, and winged our way through it in a very short time. The kids only had two months to absorb a lot of material, and the pressure on them was accordingly increased, and in a way they are not normally accustomed. However, as you can see here, the results were rather impressive, with a record year in terms of 100+ point scorers. Of course there was the ominous 33% of very low scorers to worry about as well.

This year we repeated last years’ project, but rather than cramming (more...)

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