LESS than half of the 65 000 people who took road tests between April and June this year failed to pass the examination, which is mandatory for one to acquire a driver’s licence, with the authorities attributing the high failure rate to lack of practice and nervousness among prospective drivers.
A new report by the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZimStat) shows that only 45,5 percent (about 29 000) of those who took the certificate of competency test passed.
Conversely, about 44 000 out of the 71 981 prospective drivers who sat the provisional driver’s licence test passed, representing a 62,7 percent pass rate.
“At national level, 65 453 candidates undertook the certificate of competency test during the second quarter of 2023, of which less than half (45,5 percent) succeeded,” reads the report.
“In all provinces, except Harare and Mashonaland East, proportions of candidates who passed certificate of competency tests during the second quarter 2023 were less than 50 percent, ranging from 29,1 percent in Midlands to 41,3 percent in Manicaland. About 84 percent of the individuals who went for retests succeeded.”
Source MyZimbabwe
