DRC Cuts National State-Exam Correction from 45 Days to 3 with AI-Assisted Scanning

The Democratic Republic of the Congo's Ministry of National Education and New Citizenship modernised the correction process for the 2025 Examen d'État (EXETAT), the national secondary-school leaving exam, introducing AI-assisted scanning and automated correction alongside continued human review. Minister of State Raïssa Malu launched the modernised correction centre at the Don Bosco school complex in Kinshasa's Masina commune, and later described the results at the World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, China (November 2025): correction that previously took 45 days and was subject to human error is now completed in three days, with automatic correction of scripts kept under the supervision of General Inspectorate experts.
Two additional modernised scanning centres opened for the 2025 session, in Mbuji-Mayi (Kasaï-Oriental) and Lubumbashi (Haut-Katanga), digitising scripts locally before sending them to correction centres in Kinshasa; an early launch of correction from the second day of the exam in Kinshasa Mont-Amba, Kasaï-Oriental 1 and Haut-Katanga 1 was cited as a key factor in the faster publication of results. The exam itself runs at national scale — regional counts reported for 2025 include 92,750 candidates in Bandundu-ville alone and 44,355 in Bukavu (50.2% girls) — across more than 3,000 examination centres nationwide.
The Ministry frames this alongside a wider digital push, including blockchain-secured e-diplomas to combat credential fraud, but is explicit about the limits: reaching millions of children in remote and conflict-affected provinces remains an unresolved challenge, and national internet penetration stood below 35% in 2024, concentrated in only 5 of the DRC's 26 provinces.

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