The crucial meeting follows reports that some pupils who pass the examination and proceed with secondary education can not read or write, according to the District Education Officer Mr Emmanuel Johnson.

‘We have reports that some secondary students can not read or write and that is why we have met to discus on how to prevent examination cheating’, Mr Johnson says.

The meeting, he says will also make preliminary preparation for the next national standard seven examinations due to take place September this year.

Isaya Rhobi, a form three secondary school student says the problem is huge because some teachers write exams on behalf of students who are not capable to join secondary education.

‘The problem is leakage of the exam papers and those who are passing can not make it in secondary schools and this is embarrassing the education system in Tanzania’, says Rhobi

The number of students joining secondary school has increased sharply here following massive construction of secondary schools across the country over the past few years.