The National Examinations Council of Tanzania (NECTA) was established under Parliamentary Act No. 21 of 1973 to administer all National Examinations and Assessments in Tanzania.
The decision to establish NECTA followed an earlier move by Mainland Tanzania, which pulled out of the East African Examinations Council (EAEC) in 1971 to conduct its examinations.
By then, Zanzibar had already pulled out of EAEC in 1970. Before the pull-out, between 1968 and 1971, Tanzanian students sat for foreign Secondary School Examinations conducted jointly by the East African Syndicate, which before then were administered by the Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate alone.
The Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate’s examinations included the School Certificate and the Higher School Certificate Examinations. African Students took the School Certificate Examinations for the first time in 1947 and the Higher School Certificate in 1960.
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