Zimbabwe School Examination Council (ZIMSEC) officials said they had rescheduled the exam because papers failed to arrive on time due to transport problems.
Last Wednesday schools in Bulawayo received blank question papers for the Content Paper 1 examination.
ZIMSEC has struggled to run exams after President Robert Mugabe’s government localised public examinations in 1998.
There have been numerous reports of exam paper leakages and mix-ups of students’ results raising fears that standards of Zimbabwe’s once revered education system could be seriously compromised.
Meanwhile, students at a Harare high school on Friday failed to sit an O level exam due to lack of power and water. Students from Kuwadzana 1 High School’s Food and Nutrition class were asked by their teachers to bring water and portable stoves from home to Kuwadzana 2 High school, that had power. But facilities at Kuwadzana 2 proved to be inadequate to cope with the needs of all students, leading to some having to sit the test the following day and others as late as Sunday.
 What the Kuwadzana township witnessed is something akin to a circus show. It best resembles the levels to which Zimbabwean education has plunged and questions the integrity of the whole examination system, said SW Radio Africa. – ZimOnline
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