Angie Motshekga. Picture: Dr Reginah Mhaule/Twitter
Matric results: The 2021 National Senior Certificate (NSC) overall pass rate stands at 76.4% – an improvement of 0.2% from the pass rate achieved by the Class of 2020, Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga has announced.
Announcing the outcomes of the 2021 National Senior Certificate (NSC) examination results on Thursday, Motshekga said this represents a record of 537, 687 candidates who passed the 2021 NSC examinations – an improvement of 21.9% passes from 2020.
The marking process was handled by the Department of Basic Education (DBE)’s 193 marking centres and 41,000 examination markers between 8 and 22 December 2021.
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“The class of 2021 was the most affected class because they had to endure two years of the pandemic. We had to strike a balance between saving lives and the academic year,” said Motshekga.
Watch Motshekga’s address below:
The overall pass rate of the class of 2021 is 76.4%, which is an improvement of 0.2%.
256,031 pupils got bachelors, increase from last year.
The Class of 2021 was the fourth cohort to be introduced to 12 new subject offerings, comprising the South African Sign Language (Home Language), written by 127 candidates; and Civil Technologies, Mechanical Technologies, and Electrical Technologies – each with 3 subjects; as well as Technical Mathematics and Technical Science, written by 50,330.
There were 77, 250 more girls than boys, who enrolled for the 2021 NSC examinations – an improvement of 7.4% from 2020, and there were 74, 247 more girls than boys, who actually wrote the 2021 NSC examinations – an improvement of 11.4% from 2020.
Overall, there were 297,152 girls, who passed the 2021 NSC exams – an improvement of 21.4% from 2020; and 240, 535 boys who passed the 2021 NSC exams – an improvement of 22.5% from 2020. When translated into percentages, this represents 76.4% girls, and 76.4% boys, who passed the 2021 NSC examinations – parity of the highest order.
In 2021, a total of 211,725 distinctions were achieved – an increase of 19.3% from 2020. The main contributors towards passes with distinctions, were:
The 2021 NSC examination results show that only one province achieved lower than the 70% pass rate; five provinces performed above the 70% pass rate; and 3 provinces performed above the 80% pass rate.
The achievements by province, are as follows:
Compiled by Vhahangwele Nemakonde
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