The Minister of Education Professor G.L. Peiris said that the arrangements have been made to hold the grade 05 scholarship exam of 2021 on Sunday 14^th of November.

The minister stated this while participating in the media discussion held at Nelum Mawatha on 19.07.2021. 

Furthermore, after considering the current health condition, the arrangements have been made to hold the general certificate of education advanced level examination from 15^th November till 10^th of December which was scheduled earlier to be held in October 2021, without happening any injustice to the students, said The Minister of Education Professor G.L. Peiris. 

The issuing of results of 622,000 students who sat for the 2020 G.C.E. ordinary level exam has been delayed because the practical tests of the aesthetic subjects were not been able to hold within the scheduled time. Therefore, it has been planned to conduct the practical tests of 169,000 students who sat for the aesthetic subjects from Saturday, 28^th August till Wednesday, 08^th of September this year and to issue the results as soon as possible. The arrangements have been made for those children to start pre-training activities in the schools and the actions will be taken to call these children to schools for one month’s time starting from Monday, 26^th of July strictly according to the health recommendations. The principals have already called the relevant subject teachers and planned the necessary arrangements for training. The written approval from the health services general have been obtained for this purpose.    

Accordingly, all the principals have been informed to draw special attention to do these training activities keeping the social distance according to the health recommendations.

The actions will also be taken to postpone the date for receiving applications for admissions to grade one in 2022 till Saturday 07^th of August although the deadline has already been declared as 31^st of July considering the fairness towards the applicants.