Markers have started working on the grade 10 national examination papers yesterday, says an official.
We have started grade 10 marking here at Mercy Secondary for East Sepik Province. About 95 markers are accommodated here for a week.
We have forty-seven high schools including fifteen secondary schools that sat for exams this year.
There are four thousand five hundred grade ten students in ESP.
The grade 12 markers are in Port Moresby for the same exercise.
Alexander Marcus, Mercy Secondary School Principal
Education Secretary Dr Uke Kombra confirmed yesterday that grade 12 marking is in progress as well.
He said some provinces have started marking for the grade 10 examination papers last week.
More than 71,000 grade 10s sat for their national examination early this month (October 03rd – 07th), according to the assistant secretary of the Measurement Services Division of the Education Department, Mr Packiam Arulappan.
Grade ten students, 71,542 students from 430 high schools and secondary schools are sitting for their exams.
Arulappan