The second round of appeals for Grade Six admissions based on last year’s Grade Five Scholarship examination results will open on Friday, the Education Ministry has announced.
Applications will be accepted entirely through the Ministry’s online portal at www.moe.gov.lk until 29 May 2026. Parents and guardians submitting an appeal in this round may apply for admission to a maximum of three schools, NewsFirst reported on Wednesday afternoon.
The second round follows the initial appeals window held earlier in the school admissions cycle. Children who sat the 2025 Grade Five Scholarship Examination but did not secure placements through the standard merit and proximity-based allocations can use this final window to seek admission to better-resourced national schools.
Sri Lanka’s Grade Five Scholarship is one of the most competitive examinations in the country’s school calendar, with strong cut-off marks for high-demand Colombo and provincial schools. The bulk of disputes typically arise from address-based and sibling-priority claims, which the Ministry processes through district-level appeal committees before final decisions are issued.
The fully online filing system, in place since the post-pandemic admissions cycle, replaced the earlier paper-based district office submission process. Education Ministry officials have previously said the digital system has shortened processing times and reduced disputes over date-stamped paperwork.
Earlier this week, Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya told Parliament that the government is rolling out a parallel reform package across higher education, with new degree programmes at the universities of Ruhuna and Peradeniya for the 2025/2026 academic year.
