The Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (ZIMSEC) has released the 2024 Grade 7 results. The Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education said the national pass rate was 49.01%. This marks a 3.44% improvement from 2023.
The ZIMSEC Results Portal will be accessible starting today, Friday, November 29, at 4 PM via <a href="http://zimsec.co.zw" rel="noopener" target="_new">http://zimsec.co.zw</a>. Results can be collected from regional offices beginning December 2.
Announcing the results, ZIMSEC chairperson Paul Mapfumo said a national pass rate of 49.1 percent was recorded, up from 45.57% last year. Said Mapfumo:
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A total of 387 429 candidates sat for one to six subjects during the 2024 Grade 7 examinations as compared to 372 603 candidates who sat for the same examination in 2023 showing a 3.98% increase in candidature.
The 2024 Grade 7 Examination session recorded a national pass rate of 49.01% for candidates who sat for six subjects. This is an increase of 3.44% in candidates’ performance from last year’s pass rate of 45.57%.
The increase in pass rate can be attributed to various interventions by the Ministry Primary and Secondary Education in terms of teaching and learning.
All subjects recorded pass rates of above 50% in 2024 with Shona and Physical Education &amp; / cording above 80% respectively as compared to other subjects.
Generally, there was an increase in pass rate in all the subjects except less than one percent decrease in Shona. Xhosa was examined for the first time in 2024 and recorded a pass rate of 72 percent.
Of the 387 429 candidates who sat for the 2024 Grade 7 examination, 199 939 were female. The pass rate for female candidates was 53.68% compared to 43, 99% of males.
In the 2023 examination, female candidates were again doing better than male candidates.
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In related news, the Government launched the e-enrolment platform on November 1, 2024, to streamline the allocation of Form One placements for the 2025 academic year.
The Electronic Ministry Application Platform (e-map) allows parents to secure boarding school placements, with the platform set to close on December 31.
Statistics indicate that approximately 400,000 learners sat for the 2024 Grade 7 exams across Zimbabwe.
In an interview with State media, Taungana Ndoro, the Director of Communication and Advocacy in the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education, advised parents and guardians to avoid being overly selective when choosing schools.
He said making such choices at the last minute can lead to complications, especially if their preferred schools do not have available spaces. Said Ndoro:
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Yes, boarding places have increased as we now have over 11,000 schools nationally. Parents that decline schools thinking their children will be selected at another preferred school usually only have themselves to blame, as boarding vacancies are not guaranteed everywhere because your child passed with flying colours.
Our clarion call is parents must take up the school that offers them a vacancy because if they decline, there are no guarantees of boarding vacancies from their first priority school.
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The e-map system allows parents to select up to five boarding schools where they wish their children to attend.
The platform was introduced in 2016 and was designed to promote transparency in the recruitment process for Form One learners into boarding schools.
Before that, some learners were unfairly excluded from enrolment. This was due to unscrupulous school heads who profited from conducting paid entrance tests for numerous students, despite having limited vacancies.
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ZIMSEC released Grade 7 results with a 49.01% pass rate, better than last year. Results can be seen online or picked up from December 2. A new online platform helps parents choose Form One placements for 2025. Over 400,000 students took the exams. Parents should not be too picky about schools, as places are not guaranteed, especially in boarding schools. The new system helps prevent unfair practices in school admissions.

ZIMSEC Releases 2024 Grade 7 Results With 49.01% National Pass Rate

An 11-year-old boy from Masvingo, who was doing Grade 6 at Victoria Primary School scored nine units in the 2022 Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (ZIMSEC) Grade 7 final examinations.
This means that Noah Junior Marima will skip Grade 7 and automatically proceed to secondary school next year.
The boy’s father, Noah Marima, owns the state-of-the-art Junior Primary and Junior High boarding schools in Rhodene, a low-density suburb.
Noah Junior scored ones in Maths, Shona, Social Sciences, Agricultural Sciences, and Tech.
He got two units in English while in Physical Education and Arts he got 3 units.
Marima expressed satisfaction over his son’s performance and pledged to support him to be whatever he wants. He said:
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I am elated with the achievement and as his father I don’t want to decide for him what he wants to do, I will allow him to choose his passion and my role will be to support him to chase his dreams.
My son has always shown traits of hard work and I think these are results of focus, hard work and commitment, I am very happy for him and his unique achievement gives me happiness as a father.
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Noah Junior is said to have a passion to become an Engineer. | <a href="https://www.herald.co.zw/masvingo-school-developers-whizzkid-son-to-skip-grade-7/">The Herald</a>

Grade 6 Masvingo "Whizzkid" To Skip Grade 7

The Zimbabwe Schools Examinations Council (ZIMSEC) has released the 2022 Grade 7 examinations results. To access the results, all you need to do is this:
Option A – Via the ZIMSEC website:
1. Visit the ZIMSEC website at <a href="https://www.zimsec.co.zw/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">www.zimsec.co.zw</a> and you will be taken to the home page.
2. Click on “View Results” and you will be taken to a page that shows all the country’s 10 regions [R1-Harare, R2-Manicaland, R3-Mashonaland East, R4-Matabeleland North, R5-Midlands, R7-Masvingo, R7-Mashonaland Central, R8-Mashonaland West, R9-Matabeleland South, R10-Bulawayo].
3. Select the region where your school is located and proceed to the instructions for registration.
Option B- Via direct access to your school’s region:
1. The application portal is accessed via the Regional access links/addresses.
2. Copy and paste on the web browser address bar the link for the region where your school is located.
The portal addresses are as follows:
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<li>R1 and R6 HARARE &amp; MASVINGO – <a href="https://dcmv1.zimsec.co.zw/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">https://dcmv1.zimsec.co.zw</a></li>
<li>R2 and R5 MANICALAND &amp; MIDLANDS: <a href="https://dcmv2.zimsec.co.zw/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">https://dcmv2.zimsec.co.zw</a></li>
<li>R4, R9 &amp; R10 MATABELELAND NORTH &amp; MATABELELAND SOUTH, BULAWAYO: <a href="https://dcmv3.zimsec.co.zw/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">https://dcmv3.zimsec.co.zw</a></li>
<li>R3, R7 &amp; R8 MASHONALAND EAST, MASHONALAND CENTRAL &amp; MASHINALAND WEST : <a href="https://dcmv4.zimsec.co.zw/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">https://dcmv4.zimsec.co.zw</a></li>
</ul>
<h2>Creating an account</h2>
In order to register you will need your centre number, candidate number, and date of birth to create an account.
When entering the name of the candidate start with the Surname followed by the First Name and finally the initial for the second name, if there is one. If you start with the first name followed by the surname, you may get an error message saying “candidate details not found.”
You will also need to create a username and password for your account.  Please remember these.
When you are done,  entering all the details, click “Register.”
After you have registered and created your new account, you will be redirected to the home page. 
You will need to log in using the username and password you would have entered.
After you enter the username and password, the ZIMSEC results portal will be opened.
Click on “Candidate Results” at the top and the results will be displayed.

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