Vaima's solution to reduce failures in Maths

Minister of Education Bandula Gunewardana has decided to add extra half an hour to mathematics question paper part II of G.C.E (O/L) examination to reduce the number of students who fail mathematics. This decision will come to action from next December.

Even if extra half an hour is added the current syllabus of mathematics is not changed he pointed out. Two hour duration is not sufficient to answer the mathematics question paper part II so that large number of students fails this subject the Minister emphasized.(News-Lankatruth)