No less than 928 candidates with particular instructional wants are anticipated to sit down the 2025/26 Major Leaving Examinations that started on Tuesday, July 7.
About 60 per cent of the candidates are ladies, in response to the Nationwide Examination and Faculty Inspection Authority (NESA).
Schooling officers stated every candidate can be facilitated in response to their particular person wants. Assist consists of using large-print examination papers, Braille supplies, additional time, signal language interpreters, assistive know-how, examination scribes, assistant individuals, and different acceptable assist providers.
“Some candidates use Braille, others require enlarged examination papers as a result of they’ve low imaginative and prescient, whereas others want totally different types of assistive assist,” Minister of Schooling Joseph Nsengimana stated on the launch of the examinations interval on Tuesday at Groupe Scolaire Remera Catholique in Gasabo District.
”We’ve labored with examination centres to make sure these learners obtain the facilitation they should sit the examinations correctly.”
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Jean Claude Nzeyimana, Head of the Primary Schooling and TVET Examination Division at NESA, stated examination officers labored carefully with colleges earlier than nationwide examinations to establish every learner's particular wants.
“In earlier years, some learners didn’t obtain all of the assist they required. As we speak, we seek the advice of colleges with a view to perceive and assess how every learner research in order that the identical assist is supplied throughout nationwide examinations,” Nzeyimana stated.
He defined that candidates who’re unable to put in writing however can talk their solutions are assigned educated nationwide scribes who write precisely what they dictate.
“We even have measures to make sure that what the scribe writes is precisely what the learner says, guaranteeing equity all through the examination course of,” he added.
Justin Nshimiyimana, Coordinator of Ubumwe Neighborhood Centre, stated the seven candidates from the particular wants faculty, who embrace learners with listening to, visible and studying disabilities, are receiving ample assist throughout the examinations.
“For deaf learners, signal language interpreters talk all examination directions in order that they perceive all the things occurring on the examination centre. Candidates who write extra slowly are given additional time, whereas blind candidates obtain Braille examination papers,” he stated.
Nshimiyimana famous that lodging have improved over the previous three years as colleges submitted detailed studies on every learner's wants forward of the examinations interval.
“Yearly, extra of the assist requested by colleges is given. The system continues to enhance,” he stated.
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At GS Gatagara, one other particular wants faculty, Head Instructor Mpayimana Cyridio stated deaf learners obtain extra assist throughout language examinations as a result of signal language differs considerably from written Kinyarwanda.
“Signal language is extra concise than written Kinyarwanda, making some examination texts tough to interpret immediately. Throughout language examinations, academics assist learners perceive the textual content via signal language with out influencing their solutions,” he stated.
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He added that sluggish learners sit their examinations in separate rooms the place every candidate is assigned a facilitator or scribe, whereas candidates with bodily disabilities are supplied with tailored desks appropriate for wheelchairs and different mobility wants.
In accordance with Mpayimana, a lot of the challenges beforehand confronted by candidates with disabilities have been addressed via early planning between colleges and examination authorities.
“The remaining challenges are largely these that can not be addressed with logistical means ,” he stated.
A complete of 277,452 candidates have registered for the 2025/26 Major Leaving Examinations. There are 154,351 ladies, or 55.6 per cent of all candidates.
The candidates will sit 5 topics Arithmetic, Kinyarwanda, English, Science and Elementary Know-how, and Social and Non secular Research.
