Rutendo Chirume
Buhera-based Reformed Church in Zimbabwe (RCZ)-run Makumbe and Nyashanu High Schools recorded higher percentage pass rates in Science subjects as compared to Arts and Commercial subjects.
At Makumbe there are 55 pupils in total who had 8 points and above with 25 being from Sciences, 22 from Commercials and eight from Arts classes.
The percentage of pupils who acquired 8 points and above alone was 65.97 which is broken down to 34.7 percent in Sciences, 20.55 percent in Commercials and 11.2 percent in Arts which from the statistics reveal that science subjects had more pupils passing as compared to other learning areas.
In overall, the school recorded 100 percent pass rate.
On the other hand, Nyashanu recorded 94.67 percent total pass rate and of all the 75 pupils who sat for Advanced levels, 42 scored eight points and above from which Science subjects pupils were most dominating.
The school had 33 pupils who had eight points and above in Sciences, one in Commercials and eight in Arts.
Results analysis from both schools showed that there were more students doing Science subjects as compared to Arts and Commercials.
