ORDINARY LEVEL

Ordinary Level (O-level) students at Lumumba Secondary School are junior students studying in Form I to Form IV. These students sit for Certificate of Secondary Education Examinations (CSEE) at the end of their Form IV studies. These students join Lumumba Secondary School after magnificent performance from their National Standard VI (formerly Standard VII) exams. Only the top best students get the chance to join Lumumba.

SUBJECTS

Lumumba Secondary School mainly focus on science subjects, so no business subject is taught.

The subjects that are taught at Ordinary Level are:

Physics

Chemistry

Biology

Mathematics

Geography

English Language

Kiswahili

Civics

Islamic Knowledge

STATISTICS

The number of students entering Lumumba O-level program is approximately the same each year. About 40 best students from Zanzibar public primary schools join Lumumba Secondary School each year. These students are selected on the basis of their good overall performance in the National Standard VI examinations especially in science subjects.

CHALLENGES FACED

ACHIEVEMENTS

ADVANCED LEVEL

Advanced Level (A-level) students at Lumumba Secondary School are senior students studying in Form V and Form VI. These students sit for Advanced Certificate of Secondary Education Examinations (ACSEE) at the end of their Form VI studies. These students consitute of Lumumba Secondary School students who passed their CSEE exams as well students from other Zanzibar Schools.

STUDY STREAMS (COMBINATIONS)

Normally students at Advanced Level take three main subjects which make up their subject combination. There is a compulsory subject for all students, which is General Studies, known as G.S. Also there is an additional subject for science students who do not take Advanced Mathematics subject; this subject is known as Basic Applied Mathematics (B.A.M).

The main subject combinations are:

PCM - Physics, Chemistry and Advanced Mathematics

PCB - Physics, Chemistry and Biology

PGM - Physics, Geography and Advanced Mathematics

BCG - Bilogy, Chemistry and Geography

STATISTICS

The number of students entering Lumumba A-level program has been varying from year to year. Also the subject combinations for the students have been varying from year to year especially arts subjects.

CHALLENGES FACED

Contrary to O-level, the A-level results in National Examinations have been not spectacular. It is almost impossible to find students who attained Division zero from Form IV (CSEE) national exams, while it is very ordinary to find them from Form VI (ACSEE) national exams. This is due to several factors including the low to mediocore quality of students selected to join the A-level program.

ACHIEVEMENTS

Despite the general trend of poor ACSEE results, there have been some best students from Lumumba Secondary School and some of them have been Zanzibar One and ranked among top ten of the best students in Tanzania. The most recent student to achieve those heights is Mikidadi Mahmoud who obtained Division One with 4 points in 2017 ACSEE national exams. He was the Zanzibar best student (Zanzibar One). He equalled the record that was previously held by anaother Lumumba student, namely Burhan Makame Burhan, who also obtained Division One with 4 points back in 2006.