Hon. Dayasiri Jayasekara, Attorney-at-Law
Hon. Dayasiri Jayasekara asked the Prime Minister and Minister of Education to provide details on the 2024 Grade 5 Scholarship Examination, including the number of candidates and whether any exam papers or contents had been leaked to external parties before the examination. He sought information on actions taken regarding any leak, remedies for affected students, and whether evaluation of answer scripts had been suspended, including the reasons for any suspension.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Question to the Prime Minister and Minister of Education, Higher Education and Vocational Education (No. 105/2024): Grade 5 Scholarship Exam, 2024: Leak of Questions in Exam Paper.
¶ 02 (a) Will she inform this House - (i) the number of students who sat for the Grade 5 Scholarship Examination in 2024; (ii) whether the examination papers relating to that examination or the contents thereof had been received by external parties before the date of the examination; (iii) if so, the steps taken regarding it; (iv) the steps to be taken in respect of the students who have been aggrieved from it; (v) whether the evaluation of the answer scripts of that examination has been suspended; and (vi) if so, the reasons for it? (b) If not, why?
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Cite as: Hon. Dayasiri Jayasekara, Attorney-at-Law. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 27 February 2025. No. 1741437399068186. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/13179