Official ECZ Time Table 2025 – Download PDF Here
We gladly bring to you the official ECZ Time Table 2025 – Download PDF Below
The Examinations Council of Zambia (ECZ) is a corporate body established in 1983 by an Act of Parliament Number 15 (as amended in 1994), Chapter 137 of the Laws of Zambia with a mandate to set, conduct and award qualifications to candidates who sit and pass the examinations conducted by the Council. The Act was repealed and replaced with Act No. 3 of 2023.
The ECZ develops and administers examinations at the end of Primary (Grade 7 Composite examination), end of Junior Secondary School (Junior Secondary School Leaving Examination) and end of senior secondary (School Certificate Ordinary or ‘O’ Level Examination).
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The Council also conducts Teacher Education Examinations for Early Childhood Education (ECE), Primary Teachers Diploma (PTD) and Secondary Teachers Diploma (STD).
Please note that TIME ALLOWED is shown against the subject /paper name, (e.g., 2167/1 History 2HRS 30 MINUTES).
NO EXTRA TIME IS ALLOWED.
Any time allocated for reading through the questions, writing candidate details, studying maps, etc. is included in the total time shown.
Write your details immediately the examination commences and NOT before the start time.
IMPORTANT NOTES FOR HEADS OF EXAMINATION CENTRES
(1) Papers included in the same period should begin at the same time, except that, where a candidate is writing two papers in the
same period, the second should be timed to follow the first after an interval not exceeding a quarter of an hour.
(2) (i) The Examinations Council of Zambia will consider applications from Centres for modification of the Time -Tables
(ii) Time -Table clashes:
Heads of the Examination Centres should check the Time -Tables and report any clashes to the Examinations Council of Zambia immediately.
This should include:
(a) two papers set in the same period with a third paper set in the other period on the same day;
(b) two papers set in the same period, but with no papers set in the other period on the same day.
If there is a Time -Table clash as mentioned in
(a), the Head will be requested to write to the Executive Director, Examinations
Council of Zambia, suggesting how the clash may be resolved.
If there is a Time -Table clash as mentioned in
(b), one of the papers may be transferred to the other period on the same day provided that the security of the examination is maintained. The Head of the Examination Centre will be required to write to the Executive Director, Examinations Council of Zambia, to inform the Council which paper is to be transferred.
(3) Examination Centres must ascertain from the Examinations Council of Zambia, the dates for any papers not mentioned.
(4) Notices of the times at which the examination will start and of any changes in this Time – Table as printed, will be communicated by the Examination Centre to the candidates.
(5) No candidate may take more than one of the papers bracketed together.
NOTES:
1. Attendance registers: one copy of the marked attendance register must be enclosed in the package for answer scripts.
2. Seating plans: two copies of the seating plan must be made for each paper. One copy to be packed together with the answer
scripts and the other copy to remain in school.
3. Scripts must be packed and sealed within the examination room in the presence of candidates and the bags endorsed by a
candidate and an invigilator.
4. Examination supervisors’ reports, endorsed by the Head of School/Centre must be submitted together with answer sheets
in separate envelopes.
5. All examination sessions should start on time as indicated o