Port-au-Prince, July 22, 2024 [AlterPresse] — All arrangements are made for the official State examination, starting from Monday, July 22, 2024 on the territory of Haiti. This is the guarantee given by the Minister of National Education, Augustin Antoine, in a press conference on Thursday, July 18, 2024.
He said that the period of official State examinations is a great appointment of the State of Haiti with the youth, male and female, to evaluate their apprenticeships. It is an appointment that the whole society cannot miss, despite all the difficulties. The official exams are first of all the State’s business, but also the business of the whole society.
That is why, according to the minister, the ministry he leads asks everyone, all those concerned, to stand shoulder to shoulder to allow the examination operation to go well, in the interest of all young women and men candidates, who will compose them.
At the end of last week, there were only a few schools that could not find the exam papers to give to the students, according to the director general of the National Office of State Examinations, Renan Michel, who said that everything was already ready for the official State examinations. in a press conference on Thursday, July 18, 2024.
Candidates, who were forced to leave one department to go to another department, due to terror and other gang and gun violence, should make an effort to pick up the exam papers as soon as possible, in the direction of the school department, where they are now. It is a way for the educational authorities in the departments that had to tell them where they will compose.
More than 183,000 students, young women and young men, will sit for the 9th grade exam starting Monday, July 22, 2024 on the territory of Haiti. There will be more than 2 thousand 700 candidates, who will compose for the Normal School of the institutes. And there will be 451 students composing for the Family Education Center. [apr 22/07/2024 10 :00]