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Hard work pays off at Queen’s Park High

Matric pupils across the country have returned to their schools today to collect their National Senior Certificates, with pupils in the Western Cape able to collect their results from midday onwards. Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga announced that the matric pass rate for the 2015 academic year is 70,7% which[…]

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Western Cape matrics top performers for 2015

The Western Cape was the best performing province in the 2015 National Senior Certificate exams with an 84.7% pass rate. Gauteng was close on its heels with an 84.2% pass rate. Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga announced the results in Midrand on Tuesday night. The Free State was the third-best[…]

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Class of 2015 finally learn their fate

Thousands of matrics throughout the country will know their individual results on Wednesday. All results, except those for Western Cape, would go live on the department’s website. Schools in all provinces, except the Western Cape, would open at 08:00 for pupils to fetch results and collect their National Senior Certificate,[…]

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D-day for class of 2015

Pupils in the eight provinces will be able to view their results and collect their matric certificates at school from 08:00 on Wednesday morning. Matric exam quality assurer, Umalusi, has already warned that the national pass rate will be lower than the 75.8% for the class of 2014. However, even[…]

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Matric scores down, says Umalusi

Exam monitoring body, Umalusi has revealed that it has uncovered 26 probable cases of group copying during the 2015 matric examination process; this after 58 exam centres were implicated in a similar cheating scandal in 2014. The body defines group copying as any form of assistance given to a group[…]

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UWC scraps 1st, 2nd-year exams

The University of the Western Cape (UWC) has scrapped its end-of-year exams for first- and second-year students, while final-year students will continue to write. UWC said it was providing off-campus accommodation to some of the estimated 600 final-year and postgraduate students who were scheduled to write their final exams. They[…]

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Stellenbosch University exams to continue

Final examinations would continue at Stellenbosch University on Wednesday despite disruptions by protesting workers and students, the institution’s Rector Management Team (RMT) said on Tuesday. The RMT said the university had taken extra precautions to strength security and control access to exam venues. “Following today’s [Tuesday’s] incidents further measures and[…]

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UWC cancels exams due to threats

The University of the Western Cape (UWC) has cancelled exams that were scheduled to start on Monday amid threats by protesting students. The university on Friday issued a statement on its website that it is deeply concerned about the continuation of the examinations in the current format. “The latest developments[…]

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UWC exams to continue on Monday

Exams at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) will continue on Monday, the institution said on Thursday. Exams, which were cancelled this week because of the violent protests on campus, would be repeated the week of December 1, UWC spokesperson Luthando Tyhalibongo said in a statement. UWC was doing[…]

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