NECTA CANDIDATES' ITEM RESPONSE ANALYSIS (CIRA) REPORTS ACSEE 2020

NECTA CANDIDATES’ ITEM RESPONSE ANALYSIS (CIRA) REPORTS ACSEE 2020

The National Examinations Council of Tanzania is pleased to issue the 2020 Candidates’ Items Response Analysis Report (CIRA) of the Advanced Certificate of Secondary Education Examination (ACSEE) in 112 History subject.

This report provides feedback to students, teachers, parents, policy makers and the public in general about the performance of the candidates.

The Advanced Certificate of Secondary Education Examination marks the end of the two years of Advanced Secondary Education. It evaluates the effectiveness of the education system in general and education delivery in particular.

Basically, candidates’ responses to the examination questions is one of the indicators of what the education system was able or unable to offer to the students in their two years
of Advanced Secondary School Education.

In this report, factors which have influenced the candidates to answer the questions correctly/incorrectly have been analysed.

The analysis shows that candidates with high performance provided appropriate responses since they were able to identify the task for each question and had good knowledge of the subject matter and good mastery of the English language while those with weak performance lacked such qualities.

The analysis of each question has been done whereby the strengths and weaknesses of the candidates in answering the questions have been shown.