CSEE Form Four Examination Timetable, November 2023
After Tanzania Mainland had pulled out of the East African Examinations Council, in 1971 and before NECTA was established by Law, in 1973, the Curriculum and Examinations Section of the Ministry of Education was responsible for all examinations.
With the establishment of NECTA, the Examinations became its responsibility in accordance with the law.
The Curriculum continued to be under the Ministry of Education and the University College, Dar es Salaam until when it was taken over by the newly established, autonomous Institute of Curriculum Development (ICD) in 1975, which in 1993 was renamed as the Tanzania Institute of Education (TIE).
Certificate of Secondary Education Examination(CSEE)
This is an achievement test offered to candidates who have completed four years of secondary education.
The Examination Calendar
CSEE is administered at the first week of November every year.
The objectives of CSEE
The objectives of this examination are to assess students’ skills and knowledge achieved in different subjects at secondary school.
Also to weigh the extent to which the student can use the skills gained to meet the social, political, economic and technological challenges for the individual and the national development at large;
to identify students with the capacity to continue learning to the advanced secondary school level and other learning institutions.
The holder of the CSEE qualification is expected to be able to apply skills of knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis and evaluation in a broad range of activities.
Eligibility of Candidates who Seats for the Examination
Any students who have completed four years of secondary education at both government and non-government registered schools and passed form two secondary education examination or Qualifying Test.
Also, repeaters of the same examination who registered themselves as private candidates.
NOTICE TO CANDIDATES
1. You are required to appear for the examination(s) at the centre(s) under which you are registered unless otherwise advised by the Council in writing.
2. You are required to observe all instructions given to you by the Supervisor, Invigilators or Officers of the Council responsible for the conduct of the examinations.
3. You are required to attend punctually at the time shown on your timetable. If you arrive more than half an hour late for an examination, you will not be admitted.
4. After the first half-hour, you may leave as soon as you have finished your paper and handed in the script to the Supervisor/Invigilator. You may leave the room temporarily at any time after the first half-hour but only with the permission of the invigilator.
5. You may bring into the examination room only instruments which are specifically permitted.
If you are suspected of cheating or attempting to cheat, or assisting someone else to cheat, the facts will be reported to the Council.
You may in consequence be disqualified from the examination and excluded from all future examinations of the Council. Any notes or other unauthorised material found in the examination room may be retained by the Council at its discretion.
NOTICE TO CANDIDATES
6. Communication, verbal or otherwise, between candidates is not allowed during the examination. If any candidate wishes to communicate with the invigilator he should raise his hand to attract attention.
7. You must write your examination number correctly on every answer sheet of the answer booklet/answer sheet used.
Using anybody else’s examination number is considered a case of dishonesty that may lead to cancellation of examination results.
Names, initials or any other mark that would identify a candidate should never be written on answer books or sheets of paper.
8. If you are found guilty of dishonesty in connection with the examination you may be disqualified in the entire examination.
9. You should not write any notes on your question paper. Use the last pages of your answer booklet to do rough work but ensure that you cross to indicate that it is not something to be marked.
10. You should not take anything from the examination room, unless instructed otherwise. You should not destroy any paper or material supplied in the examination room.
11. Write in blue or black ink or ball pen. Draw in pencil.
12. Smoking is not permitted in the examination room.
13. Private candidates should produce a letter from the Council allowing them to sit for the particular examination at the prescribed centre, otherwise they will not be allowed to sit for examination.
However, they are strictly not allowed to write anything in their letters.
14. During preparations of Practical examinations, the area around laboratories must be restricted and all candidates must be held in the special room(s) from 7:00 a.m. to the time of starting examination.
15. The examination will continue as scheduled even if it falls on a public holiday
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