Presidential Comm. to probe GCE (A/L) results mess up
President Mahinda Rajapaksa would appoint a committee to probe the District ranking mess up of the GCE (A/L) examination results 2011, Education Minister Bandula Gunawardena said.
Addressing a packed media conference at the Examinations Department auditorium, Minister Gunawardena said that the committee would include three university Vice Chancellors and a retired judge.
The proposed committee would also make recommendations to amend the Examinations Act of 1968, he said.
“There are several things in the existing Act that need to be amended,” Gunawardena said adding that it was to ensure consistency in rules and regulations, some of which now change with Ministers.
“For example, if some examination supervisor did something wrong the department could only sack her/him from exam duties according to the existing Act, but in future through amendments we hope to bring in some deterrent punishments as well,” he said.
The Examinations Department released results after making ‘Z’–score by combining the old and new syllabuses according to the formula given by the experts committee including Prof. K. R. M. T. Karunaratne, Prof. Sarath Kulatunga, Prof. Sarath Peiris, Dr. Banneheka and Dr. Dilhari Atygalle, he said adding all were top statisticians of the country.
Assuring that GCE (A/L) results were 100% accurate and only the revised district ranks were issued a day after the release of the results, Gunawardena said that there was no need for anyone to resign as nothing serious had happened.
He said that the teacher trade unionists who were demanding rescrutiny of results were trying to sabotage exam duties and answer script evaluation, but it was unsuccessful.
“They threatened to boycott exam evaluation and duties from July,” Gunawardena said adding that they were now trying to create a problem claiming that results were wrong.
He said that the ministry would not dance to their tune and the results would be not re–scrutinized.
However, students could apply for re-correction as usual as in other years, he said.
According to Gunawardena, last year too, 73,000 students applied for re–scrutiny of results.
Higher Education Minister S. B. Dissanayake, Deputy Minister of Education Vijithamuni Zoysa, Higher Education Secretary Dr. Sunil Jayantha Navaratne, Education Secretary H. M. Gunasekera, Commissioner General of Examinations Anura Edirisinghe and other ministry officials were present.
Courtesy: The Island
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hari dan comiti 1k path karama okkoma harida ???
1. mulin results waraddala ewwama lamaingei ammalagei hith wala athi unu balaporothu ?
2. mehema parakku wewi, waradda waradda apu result 1k wishwasa karanne kohomada ?
3.sylbs 2kata eka z scr 1k hadaddi kattiyakata paadu wenne nadda ?
mehema waradi weddi oya Z scr 1 wishwasa karanne kohomada ?????
anika Z scr 1 anumatha nokara hitiye aake prashnayak thiyena nisaane. ath janadipathi kiyala peya 24k athulatha,, Z scr 1 thorala, anumatha karala, results out karalath iwarai
Z- score cutoff mark result is not a Z- score. Z score kiyala wena figure ekak deela thiyenna. Laminate labila thiyenne z score result eka newei. Boru mawagattha score ekak. Kawda kiyanne ekata Z score kiyala. Mala vikarayakne deela thiyenne. Loaka Sammatha piligath kramayak thiyenawa. Hariyata z score hadana hati internet Wikipedia eke thiyenawa. Results were not done according to z score formula. Sunday 25th Silumina newspaper has published this formula. That is not the standard method used to calculate Z score. There is a standard accepted method. So, entire result sheet is wrong. There will be court cases against the use of wrong formula.
Horage ammagen pena ahanawa wagene bolan mewa. Ha ne rale wane wase kiwwalu. Nothing much serious happen so need to resigne. Dawasw wkiyamana. Mun redi adala paretha yanawane
Horage ammagen pena ahanawa wagene bolan mewa. Ha ne rale wane wase kiwwalu. Nothing much serious happend so no need to resigne. Who asked whom to resigne? It’s out kids lifes. So it’s nothing serious aha? Dawase wkiyamana. Mun redi adala paretha yanawane
Method used to calculate Z score was incorrect. When the mean value of two different student populations were not equal it is impossible to combine them and pool them together. Only statistically acceptable method of calculating Z score under these circumstances is to calculate them separately by using relevant mean of the student population. By attempting to use a combine mean entire Z score results have received a wrong and unacceptable Z score result. That is the main reason for severe discrepancies in the entire advanced level results which could lead to multiple court proceedings challenging methodology used in Z score calculations. Only solution is to calculate z scores separately for two examinations and release entire A/L results using standard methodology.
These two bufoons are a shame on society.
Just look at their idiotic grins having messed up the lives and expectation of approximately 300000 students who sat for the GCE AL.