Baha’i scores 99% IGCSE pass rate
28 January, 2010 10:00:00By Hlengiwe Ndlovu
http://www.observer.org.sz/index.php?news=10713
SETSEMBISO Sebunye (Baha’i) High School has attained an impressive 99% overall pass rate in the IGCSE exams.
The results were recently released by Cambridge and Setsembiso Sebunye already has access to both ICGSE and AS (Advanced Subsidiary) results.
Setsembiso Sebunye students have been fetching their results from the school since Monday, and for most, it was smiles all the way home as the results were good.
The performance for AS was also impressive as over 60% of the students recorded C grades and better in all subjects.
The school already has access to both IGCSE and AS results because it directly subscribes to Cambridge.
Impressed
Principal Mangaliso Dlamini was impressed with the school’s performance, especially after making an analysis of the results.
He said the school would have attained a 100% pass rate but for some reason, one student missed some of the papers during the exam.
Most schools in the country are doing the localised version of the IGCSE syllabus, SGCSE, though with some schools the syllabus has not been fully localised.
At Baha’i, the only subject that is being done under the localised SGCSE is SiSwati.
Horizons
The school is looking at means of broadening its horizons by offering commercial and humanities studies at the AS level.
Currently, only science subjects are being offered at AS for science, which limits the course only to students who want to pursue scientifically related fields.
Accompanied by their parents, students have been flocking the school to fetch their results from the school yesterday.
Smiles
Whiz kid Ntandoyenkhosi Mabuza who was in the company of her father was all smiles on Tuesday when she fetched her results from the school.
She has been admitted to the University of Pretoria to pursue Medicine and she is expected to begin classes today.
But knowledge of the need of this power is not sufficient. Realizing that wealth is desirable is not becoming wealthy. The admission that scientific attainment is praiseworthy does not confer scientific knowledge. Acknowledgment of the excellence of honor does not make a man honorable. Knowledge of human conditions and the needed remedy for them is not the cause of their betterment. To admit that health is good does not constitute health. A skilled physician is needed to remedy existing human conditions. As a physician is required to have complete knowledge of pathology, diagnosis, therapeutics and treatment, so this world physician must be wise, skillful and capable before health will result. His mere knowledge is not health; it must be applied and the remedy carried out.
The attainment of any object is conditioned upon knowledge, volition and action. Unless these three conditions are forthcoming there is no execution or accomplishment.
(Abdu'l-Baha, Foundations of World Unity, p. 100)
