The Examinations Administration Division is responsible for examination regulations, production and distribution of examination materials to examination centres country-wide, the crafting of the examination timetable, monitoring the conduct of examination centres, results processing and certificate production.
ZIMSEC Examinations Administration
ZIMSEC Examinations Administration;
The Examinations Administration Division is responsible for examination regulations, production and distribution of examination materials to examination centres country-wide, the crafting of the examination timetable, monitoring the conduct of examination centres, results processing and certificate production.
Critical issues that relate to candidates :
- In all examination entries, correct information should be supplied.
- Candidates requiring question papers in Enlarged Print or Braille must apply for this facility in November before the registration process begins in the following year.
- ZIMSEC regulations do not permit teachers at a centre and their relatives to sit for an examination at that centre.
- A candidate found with unauthorized materials in the examination room will have their results cancelled by ZIMSEC.
- Calculator and non-calculator versions of Ordinary Level Mathematics differ in approach only as the questions are identical. The calculator version is code 4028 and the non-calculator version is code 4008. Paper 1 of both versions consists of computations and all students do their work manually. For Paper 2 (calculator version) candidates use calculators and for the non-calculator version, candidates use mathematical tables.
- If there is an acceptable clash of subjects registered by a candidate, the centre applies for a deviation of the timetable and ZIMSEC regional staff supervise the examinations.
- Candidates are advised not to enter for mutually exclusive subjects in a single examination sitting. These are subjects with overlapping content such as:
- Physical Science and Physics/Chemistry
Commerce and Commercial Studies
Human and Social Biology and Biology
Results of these pairs of subjects count for only one subject pass
A critical issue that relates to candidates :
- In all examination entries, correct information should be supplied.
- Candidates requiring question papers in Enlarged Print or Braille must apply for this facility in November before the registration process begins in the following year.
- ZIMSEC regulations do not permit teachers at a centre and their relatives to sit for an examination at that centre.
- A candidate found with unauthorized materials in the examination room will have their results cancelled by ZIMSEC.
- Calculator and non-calculator versions of Ordinary Level Mathematics differ in approach only as the questions are identical. The calculator version is code 4028 and the non-calculator version is code 4008. Paper 1 of both versions consists of computations and all students do their work manually. For Paper 2 (calculator version) candidates use calculators and for the non-calculator version, candidates use mathematical tables.
- If there is an acceptable clash of subjects registered by a candidate, the centre applies for a deviation of the timetable and ZIMSEC regional staff supervise the examinations.
- Candidates are advised not to enter for mutually exclusive subjects in a single examination sitting. These are subjects with overlapping content such as:
- Physical Science and Physics/Chemistry
Commerce and Commercial Studies
Human and Social Biology and Biology
Results of these pairs of subjects count for only one subject pass