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Scheduled Selection Test for Bi-lingual Medium at Royal College, 2025

We have urged the Principal Wijewardene repeatedly to do away with the so-called Selection Test reeking of corruption and favouritism. Looks like we had been playing fiddle to a deaf Elephant. We have today presented our concerns to all top Bureaucrats at the Ministry and want to inform all Parents seeking Bi-lingual medium for their sons. We feel that we have gone far enough and now it's up to each one of you to stand up for your rights and to make a stand against bogus tests rigged to ensure the success of a chosen few.


If Principal Wijewardene truly wants to solve the problem all he has to do is to recruit a few experienced, retired Teachers or recent graduates from the Faculty of Education UoC or SLIIT on contract basis like already happening with teaching Mandarin and German at Royal. Where's the money coming from? From the FDs stashed at the Peoples Bank amounting to over Rs 100M. Why do you need the President or the PM to solve such a simple matter?

ඇයි හැබෑට යුද්දෙට නැති කඩුව කොස් කොටන්ඩද කියල තියෙන්නේ කට කහනවටෙයි?


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BY HAND

October 12, 2025
Ms Nimali Baduraliya – Director Bi-lingual, Ministry of Education
Ms Himali – Director National Schools, Ministry of Education
Mr Nalaka Kaluwewa – Secretary, Ministry of Education
Hon Madhura Seneviratne – Deputy Minister Education

Scheduled Selection Test for Bi-lingual Medium at Royal College, 2025

1. Please refer to the attached WhatsApp message from the Grade Head - 6 announcing
the date and time for the Selection Test.

2. The Ministry circular 34/2024 clearly states that a school can hold only one test per
year. Royal College is most likely to violate it when it holds this test on October 23rd
(exclusively for its Primary students), because the scholars are only expected to arrive
much later next year.

3. As we have repeatedly pointed out, this is a very fraudulent test held with sinister
motives; it’s designed to keep the scholars from rural areas out and the privileged
children in. It is also to convince Parents, that to pass it, one needs to enroll his son in a
tuition class run by past Teachers (whom we suspect, do set the exam papers).

4. The test is more secretive and confidential than the G5 Scholarship exam, O-Ls and A-Ls.
No guidelines are given and no past papers are available. Some Parents have
complained that their sons were tested on G6 syllabus which is yet to be taught.

5. There’s no necessity to hold a Selection Test when there are enough Teachers available
on contract basis and the SDS has over Rs 100M in reserves to pay them.

Please intervene at your earliest to stop this unfair and diabolical practice.

Padmasena Dissanayake

Alumnus (’67-’74)

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