ECZ Grade 12 Exam Timetable – Nov 2021

This article contains information on the Examinations Council of Zambia, ECZ Grade 12 School Certificate Examination Timetable – November 2021, school leavers are to take note. This examination timetable contains the time and venue of all the subjects to be written.

This is to notify all prospective higher institution students that the management of the Examinations Council of Zambia, ECZ has published the examination timetable for November 2021. The drafted and approved Grade 12 exam timetable contains a scheduled list of subjects offered. More so, the examination timetable contains time and venue for all the papers that have been scheduled for the current academic session. The examination timetable hints at the Grade 12 exam schedule for all prospective candidates. See below, the Grade 12 exam schedule.

ECZ GRADE 12 EXAM TIMETABLE FOR NOVEMBER 2021

The Examinations Council of Zambia informs all prospective candidates that the Grade 12 November 2021 Examinations begins on 9TH NOVEMBER 2021 and its ending on 25TH NOVEMBER 2021. Students are advised as follows:

• Morning Examinations begins at 8:00 AM, and the second paper begins at 11:30 AM
• To check on the room allocation charts to know where you are supposed to sit for any exam.
• To be at the examination venue at least 30 minutes before the scheduled time for starting a particular exam.
• To restrain from cheating in exams to avoid resultant unpleasant consequences.
• Check the timetable carefully

TIME ALLOWANCE FOR QUESTION PAPERS

Please note that TIME ALLOWED is shown against the subject /paper name, (e.g. 2167/1 History 2HRS 30MINUTES).

NO EXTRA TIME IS ALLOWED.

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1. Papers included in the same period should begin at the same time, except that, where a candidate is writing two papers in the same period, the second should be timed to follow the first after an interval not exceeding a quarter of an
2. Daylight periods should be provided for Art and
3. (i) The Examinations Council of Zambia will consider applications from Centres for modification of the Time-tables
   1. Time-Table clashes:  Heads  of  schools/Centres  should  check  the  Time-Tables  and  report  any  clashes  to  the Examinations Council of Zambia

This should include:

• two papers set in the same period with a third paper set in the other period on the same day;
• two papers set in the same period, but with no papers set in the other period on the same

If there is a Time-Table clash as mentioned in (a) above, the Head will be requested to write to the Director, Examinations Council of Zambia, suggesting how the clash may be resolved

If there is a Time-Table clash as mentioned in (b) above, one of the papers may be transferred to the other period on the same day, provided that the security of the examination is maintained. The Head of school /Centre will be required to write to the Director, Examinations Council of Zambia, to inform the Council which paper is to be transferred.

4. Examination Centres must ascertain from the Examinations Council of Zambia, the dates for any papers not
5. Notices of the times at which the examination will start and of any changes in this time-table as printed will be communicated by the Examination Centre to the
6. No candidate may take more than one of the papers bracketed

HEADS OF SCHOOLS/CENTRES SHOULD ENSURE THAT THE FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS ARE BROUGHT TO THE NOTICE OF THE CANDIDATES UNDER EXAMINATION.

IMPORTANT DIRECTIONS TO CANDIDATES

Teachers are advised to take care that their pupils are carefully drilled to carry out these directions.  Numbers 3, 4 and 11 below are very frequently disregarded and candidates sometimes suffer a loss of marks in consequence.

1. Be seated in the Examination Room five minutes before the start of the No talking is allowed once you are in the Examination Room.
2. If an Examination paper for which you are not entered is handed to you, or if the questions indicate that a map or other form should also have been given out, speak to the Supervisor
3. Attend carefully to any general directions that may be given at the head of a question paper (e.g. Directions limiting the number of questions that may be answered).
4. Write your centre number and examination number in the spaces at the top of the Answer, In addition, write the subject name, subject code number and paper number in the spaces provided on the Answer Booklet. The above information must also be written on all the papers e.g. maps, graph papers, etc. clear figures in the right-hand top corner of every sheet of writing paper, etc, which you use, and the name of the subject as well as your number of the first sheet of each set of papers. If you are using Answer Booklets, you need only write this information on the cover and on any maps, squared papers, etc.
5. Leave a margin at both right-hand and left-hand Begin the answer to each separate part of a question on a fresh line.
6. Do not fold your Answer Sheets / Booklets at any time.
7. Write the number of the question clearly in the left-hand margin at the beginning of each Do not copy the question. Be careful to use the same system of numbering as it appears in the question paper. Leave a blank space after the answer to each question.
8. Remember that handwriting and spelling will be taken into Candidates are required to write their answers in black or blue ink. Red ink must not be used. Fountain pens or ball-point pens may be used.
9. Candidates are warned that the use of pale blue ball-point pens contributes to illegibility and that if their work cannot be read, they automatically penalize B or HB pencils must be used for answering multiple-choice tests and soft erasers should be used. Pencils or ball-point pens in other colours may be used for diagrams only.
10. Do not use ink to shade the multiple-choice Answer
11. The use of map stencils in all Geography papers is Bring mathematical, drawing and dissecting instruments for subjects for which they will be needed. Candidates are warned that the use of electronic calculators in the examination room is limited strictly to non-programmable calculators. Pocket computers and any other supplementary material must in no circumstances be taken into the Examination Room.
12. No additional time will be allowed for the failure of a calculator in the Examination hall.
13. Read each question very Much time may be wasted in writing down information that is not asked for, and no marks are given for it.
14. Do not spend too much time on one or two questions so as to leave yourself no time to answer others which you are able to answer.
15. As soon as notice is given to stop writing, fasten any loose papers to the left-hand corner of the Answer Booklet (this is normally the order in which you answered the questions); see that they all have your examination number written upon them, fasten them together at the left-hand top corner and hand them unfolded to the Supervisor (If more than one Booklet is used, tie them together). Do not tie your Answer Booklets together so tightly that the pages tear apart when they are turned
16. DO NOT STAPLE ANSWER BOOKLETS
17. A candidate who arrives late will be required to give a satisfactory reason to the Except in exceptional circumstances, a question paper will not be given to any candidate who is more than half an hour late. Absolute punctuality is essential for all the papers. Candidates are not allowed to leave the Examination Room half an hour before the end of the period allotted to the paper except by special permission of the Supervisor.
18. CANDIDATES WITH Special Educational Needs (SEN) are eligible for 25 percent extra writing time.

CAUTION TO CANDIDATES BEFORE COMMENCEMENT OF EXAMINATIONS

• The Head of school/Centre shall announce a caution to the candidates at an assembly that examinations were about to start and candidates should not involve themselves in examination malpractices such as smuggling of unauthorized materials including exercise books, notes, textbooks, cellular phones, smartwatches or any other electronic or digital device in the examination room or somebody else writing an examination on behalf of a
• Where a candidate will be involved in examination malpractice, all results of such a candidate in all subjects will be cancelled or
• All articles such as exercise books, notes, textbooks, cellular phones, should be surrendered to the Invigilator as candidates enter the examination room.
• Where a teacher or some other person writes an examination on behalf of a candidate, the results of such a candidate will be cancelled or nullified in all The teacher will face criminal prosecution as well as disciplinary action. Any other person who may not be a Ministry of General Education official will be reported to the police for criminal prosecution.
• Teachers in examination classes should also actively sensitize candidates against examination malpractices and the ensuing penalties which include cancellation or nullification of all results and being barred from writing examinations conducted by the Examinations Council of Zambia.
• Candidates must return immediately to the Invigilator any incorrect question paper given to them and must not take any used or unused writing paper out of the Examination Any rough work must be done on the official answer paper and if not to be sent with answers, must be left on the desks to be collected by the Invigilator.
• Disorderly conduct or causing disturbances in or near the Examination Room may be treated as misconduct leading to disqualification.
• Use of vulgar Language (insults) in or near the Examination Room or on the scripts will be treated as misconduct leading to disqualification and cancellation of results in all the subjects.

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