COLOMBO : The Cabinet of Ministers approved Education Minister Prof.G.L. Peiris’ proposal to hold the G.C.E. Ordinary Level examination in August and the G.C.E. Advanced Level examinations in December, Co-Cabinet Spokesman Mass Media Minister Keheliya Rambukwella said.
Addressing the weekly Cabinet media briefing held yesterday at the Government Information Department, Minister Rambukwella said the decision was reached with the aim of providing opportunities for students to complete their higher education early and enter the job market.
The government has observed that students are aged 19 or 20 years by the time they complete their school education and they reach 25 or 26 years when they finally conclude their university education.
This is due to the extended period spent on issuing the A/L and O/L exam results and it also leads to delays in beginning A/L classes and the undergraduate selection process. The Education Ministry has taken several decisions to mitigate this situation in future. A decision has been taken to restructure the syllabus of Grade 10 and 11 for one year and nine months.
The G.C.E.(Ordinary Level) and G.C.E.(Advanced Level) Examinations will be in August and December respectively and results will be issued within three months of each exam, so that a total of 45 months at present can be reduced to 32 months.
Selection of students to universities based on the Z score without waiting for the conclusion of the re-correction process of the G. C. E. Advanced Level examination will also be made.
If there are students whose results are upgraded after the re-correction process, they will be awarded new marginal Z Scores so they can undergo the relevant degree courses and this method will be applied from the 2020 Advanced Level examination.
Meanwhile, the results of 2020 G.C.E. Advanced Level Examination have been released online, Commissioner-General of Examinations Sanath Pujitha announced this evening (May 04).
Accordingly, the candidates who sat for the 2020 A/L exam can now access the results through the official website of the Department of Examinations – www.doenets.lk
As many as 194,297 candidates (64.39%) have qualified for university entrance, the examinations chief stated.
A total of 301,771 candidates – including 277,625 from the new syllabus and 24,146 from the old syllabus – sat for the three main subjects of the exam last year.
The statement issued by the examinations chief noted that the details of the online application procedure for the re-scrutinization of answer scrips will be notified in due time.
Any inquiries regarding the results can be directed to the following contact numbers:
• School Examinations Organization & Results Branch – 0112784208 / 0112784537 / 0113140314 / 0113188350
• Hotline: 1911
2020 Advanced Level Examination was held from October 12, 2020 to November 06, 2020 amidst the outbreak of second wave of COVID-19 pandemic in the country.
