Mon State Achieves a Higher Percentage of Passes in the Burmese Government 10th Standard Examination

The chair person and education coordinator in Mon State, U Min Htoo Tin  said, according to the 2011-12 Burmese government 10th standard examination results, Mon State achieved the highest percentage of passes.

Mi Thike Htaw a Mon student who is a representative of Mon State and has joined the TPC (Teacher Preparation Center) which is run by KTWG (Karen Teacher Working Group) and WE (World Education) on the Thai –Burma border said, "Four months before the 10th standard examination, "We go and live in dormitories, and are taught by retired teachers who organize the tuition program.They taught all the subjects over the four months and it cost 300,000 Kyat. Now I have passed I desire to continue my studies at TPC and then I will apply for Distance Education at University."

One of the University students said, "Each student who stayed in the dormitory for a year paid 16 to 25 hundred thousand Kyat, and in the entire dormitory in Burma there are more than a hundred students.
Since 2007-08, Mon State has five times the students who have passed with the highest percentage. This year, 13796 students entered the examination and 7202 passed; Mon State has 52.2% pass-rate, higher than any other State.