The Gambia’s Basic and Secondary Education Ministry has recently released Gambia Basic Secondary Certificate Exams GABECE (Grade 9).

This examination determines passage from middle school to senior secondary school.

Overall, there is still a need for improvement in English Language and Mathematics subjects, however, ten more people scored the aggregate six-best score, this year more than last year.

In previous years, girls outperformed boys as per the statistics.

In this guest interview, our Banjul correspondent Sankulleh Janko spoke to Jainaba Bah, a Literature Teacher on the performance of female pupils