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Secondary education is offered as either general or vocational/technical secondary. Secondary education is primarily conducted in public institutions, which almost always include “high school” in their names. Secondary education is tuition free for graduates of elementary school, but it is not compulsory and despite substantial enrollment figures nationwide, the overall ten-year elementary through secondary school completion rate is low; about 46% of the students who start Grade 1 finish Grade 10.

The National College Entrance Examination (NCEE), which was formerly administered to all secondary students during their fourth year, was abolished in 1994. Most colleges and universities have their own entrance examinations which students take instead. High school students now take the National Secondary Achievement Test (NSAT) but this test is not supposed to be used to determine college admissibility.

Source: World Education Services.