The results for the 2015 primary six and senior three candidates for the national examination were released this morning at Rwanda Education Board (REB).

At both academic levels, girls outperformed boys according to results that were announced by the State Minister for Primary and Secondary Education, with a slight improvement in the general performance as compared to last year.

A total of 160,357 candidates who sat for Primary Leaving Exams 84.82 per cent of the candidates passed, representing a 0.3 percent performance improvement compared to 84.50 per cent in 2015.

Girls represent 54.67 percent of those who passed at primary six, while boys constitute 45.33 per cent, according to the figures.

6,482 primary leaving candidates obtained first grade, representing 4.04 percent of the total candidates and this represents a slight increase of 0.4 per cent of pupils who passed in the first grade as compared to last year.

On the other hand, out of 84,868 students who sat for O’level national exams, 74,036 passed—representing 87.24 per cent.

Girls constitute 51.7 percent of the total candidates who made in the four various passing-grades, while boys represent 48.3 percent.

A slight general increase in the pass rate of 0.66 percent was also registered in 2015, as compared to 2014.

"However, in both categories, boys registered the overall best performance in all grades as compared to girls,” said State Minister Olivier Rwamukwaya.

He also stated that there were a number of cases where students got involved in malpractices whose results were not released.

He did not provide figures of those students involved.