– A student from the Kurunegala District has secured the highest mark of 193 in the 2026 Grade 5 Scholarship Examination in the Sinhala medium, Commissioner General of Examinations A.K.S. Indika Kumari Liyanage said.
Speaking at a special media briefing, she said a student from the Jaffna District obtained the highest mark of 188 in the Tamil medium.
The cut-off mark for this year’s examination is 139, with around 56,000 students scoring above the threshold, she said.
Liyanage added that the date for submitting applications for re-scrutiny of examination results will be announced later