The Ministry of Education on Thursday 25th November has decided what chapters to remove from the syllabus of students in Grade 5. As formerly stated by the Minister of Education, Leela Devi Dookun Luchoomun, who understands that face-to-face and online courses cannot be matched, as much as the potential of each student towards a subject, Grade 5 students will have less to study and revise, particularly those who will take part in the Grade 5 Modular Assessments, i.e. History, Geography and Science and the Primary School Achievement Certificate, i.e. Mathematics, which are scheduled for the end of the third term. Below are the chapters removed in detail according to the ministry concerned
Chapters removed from the Modular Assessments:
| Histoire-géographie | ||
| Unit | Topic | Sub-Topic |
| 3 | Settlement in Mauritius | Topic 4 – Mauritius a British Colony |
| 4 | Weather and Climate | Topic 2 – Rainfall |
| 5 | Port-Louis The Capital of Mauritius | All |
| Sciences | ||
| Unit | Topic | |
| 5 | More about plants | |
| 7 | Transformation of Energy | |
| 8 | The simple Electric circuit | |
Chapters removed from Mathematics Grade 6 :
| WILL BE ASSESSED | IS retained | |
| Textbook – Part 1 | ||
| Unit 7 – Fractions | Division of fractions (numerical and word problems) | Only division with simple divisor |
| Unit 9 – Decimals | Word problems involving division of decimals | |
| Textbook- Part 2 | ||
| Unit 18 – Time calendar | GMT | |
| Unit 19 – Area | Area of Trapezium and Parallelogram | |
| Unit 20 – Percentages | Whole Topic | Only basic one-step calculations is retained |
| Unit 22 – Ratio | Whole Topic | Only one-step calculations is retained |
| Unit 23 – Proportion | Inverse Proportion | |
| Unit 24 – Use of Area | Whole Topic | |
| Unit 25 – Angles | Angles | Finding one unknown angle is retained. Finfing one unknown angle in triangles and quadrilaterals is retained |
| Unit 26 – Charts | Pie Chart | |
| Unit 27 – Coordinates & line Graphs | Whole Topic | |
| Unit 28 – Volume | Whole Topic | Finding volume given length, width and height is retained |
| Unit 29 – Speed | Whole Topic | Basic one-step problems is retained |
