The results were published in all the regional delegations on Thursday July 14, 2016.

The week end was a happy one for many parents following the publication of the results of the 2016 session of the First School Leaving Certificate Examination. The FLSC being the first official certificate in the life of every child, many candidates of the Centre Region waited impatiently for the publication of their results. In Yaounde , anxious parents thronged the seven sub divisional delegations on Friday July 15, 2016 to check the results of their kids.

Joan Orock, a happy mother, who lives in the Biyem-Assi neighbourhood, told Cameroon Tribune that her daughter passed the examination at the age of 10 and that was her first attempt. She said her daughter was able to make it thanks to hard work. “I personally supervised her work each time she came back from school. I am so happy,” she said. She said she will now start preparing her daughter for college since she had already passed the interview into a boarding school. The story is similar to that of Pauline B. She said her twins passed the examination and were all ready to go to a government bilingual high school in the city.

This year, a total of 11,962 candidates; 5600 boys and 6,360 girls registered for the examination, 11,845 (5542 boys and 6303 girls) sat for the examination. According to the final results published by the Centre Regional Delegation for Basic Education, 5164 boys and 5936 girls passed. The total number of successful candidates for the Centre Region stands at 11,100. Percentages pass stands at 93.17 per cent for boys and 94.17 for girls making 93.71 per cent. Last year, 10,378 candidates registered for the examination, 10,306 sat and 9912 passed giving a successful rate of 96.17 per cent. Apart from that, the results of the Certificat d’Etude Primaire (CEP) and the Baccalaureate Technique were equally published over the