Grade seven results for this year have been announced, and 299 thousand, 7 hundred and 10 pupils have been accepted to Grade 8
This is out of a total of 3 hundred and 32 thousand 9 hundred and 53 candidates who sat for the 2014 examinations.
Education Minister John Phiri who has announced the results in a ministerial statement in Parliament, says all schools will start issuing out results on Friday.
Grade 8 pupils will report for school on January 12, 2015, and a two weeks grace period has been give up to January 26, 2015.
This means that pupils who will not report to schools where they have been accepted will lose their places in those schools.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Education has completed recruiting and deploying 1-thousand and 24 teachers.
Permanent Secretary Chimba Nkosha says of the selected number, 5-hundred and 55 are male while 4-hundred and 69 are female candidates.
Mr. Nkosha says all selected candidates must report to their respective District Education Board Secretaries by second December 2014.
He says in a statement to ZNBC that a ten day grace period has been given to all applicants to report for work.
Mr. Nkosha says the deadline for reporting will be 15th December adding that all candidates who fail to report after the grace period will be replaced by those on the waiting reserve list.
He has advised the new recruits that all places are not transferable.