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LIVE FEED: Basic Education Minister announces 2020 Matric pass rate
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Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga is expected to announce the matric National Senior Certificate pass rate today at 4pm.
The Class of 2020 sat for their NSC examinations on November 5 and concluded their exams on December 17, following two rewrites of the Mathematics paper 2 and Physical Sciences paper 2 after they were leaked.
Despite these leaks, the NSC examinations were still set to the satisfaction of the Umalusi, the Quality Council for General and Further Education and Training.
Last week, the council gave the Department of Basic Education the greenlight to release the results on February 23.
Umalusi has given the Department of Basic Education the green light to release the November 2020 National Senior Certificate (NSC) examination results.
Despite numerous isolated irregularities and two leaked examination papers, the 2020 National Senior Certificate (NSC) exam results have been approved by the quality assurance body Umalusi.
However, Umalusi did state that the investigation into the leaks that rocked the Department of Basic Education (DBE) during the exams last year is still ongoing.
The DBE administered the NSC examinations of 1,055,529 candidates – making it the largest exam ever sat for in SA, as a result of the cancellation of the June rewrite exams that could not take place because of Covid-19 and had to be combined with the November exams.
“The executive committee of the council is satisfied that, based on the evidence [presented by the DBE], there were no systemic irregularities which might have compromised the overall credibility and integrity of the 2020 NSC exams,” said Professor John Volmink, Umalusi’s chair of the council.