Kinshasa, July 1st, 2025 (CPA). – The finalists of the primary cycle have been encouraged to succeed in the National Primary School Leaving Examination (Enafep), during a round of talks held on Tuesday by the burgomaster of the municipality of Kasa-Vubu, in the centre of Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. ‘You are well prepared to face these tests and I am convinced that you will all succeed, those are my words of encouragement,’ has declared Phinnees Masombo, the burgomaster of the municipality of Kasa-Vubu. ‘I will be particularly happy to see you all pass your exams and move on to 7th grade. I think you are young like me, even if you are a little more so, and that among you may be the future great leaders of the country’, he has added. Speaking in his turn, Jude Nkaka, the sub-provincial education director of Kasa-Vubu, has said to be satisfied with the first day of the exams.
‘I am very satisfied, because all the instructions given to the school principals have been respected. Not a single child was late. Yourself have seen that, by 8.30am at the latest, all the children were in their rooms and had their test books. That’s very satisfying,’ he has said. ‘As chairman of the Enafep 2025 sub-provincial committee in Kasa-Vubu, I am making the rounds, together with Mr Fine Mansombo, the burgomaster and municipal authority of our jurisdiction, to report to us on the progress of this examination on this first day,’ he has concluded.
Primary education: N’sele finalists urged to face the national exam without fear
A view of the finalists from Notre Dame de Bon Secours primary School
The finalists from Notre Dame du Bon Secours primary school in N’sele, a municipality in the east of Kinshasa, have been urged to face the primary school leaving examination (Enafep), to be held from July 1st to 2nd, 2025, without fear. ‘On this first day, I’m urging my pupils to work fearlessly towards the end-of-primary-school exam, because we taught them everything they’ll need to know in class. A child who has studied well will have no problem facing this exam,’ has said Franco Mutianguna, headmaster of the school. ‘There is nothing new that will appear in the items, just the subjects taught by their teachers’, he has added.
He has also ruled out the idea of overloading pupils by preparing them on the same day as the exam. He has pointed out that the exam had been in preparation since the beginning of the year. ‘Today, the students will simply show what they are capable of,’ he has said. ‘Since the beginning of the year, we have had exercises in which we have dealt with the items to prepare the pupils for this exam’, he has concluded. The national primary school leaving examination has been scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday. The first day is devoted to French and general knowledge, while the second is reserved for mathematics and science. CPA/