‘Supplementary exams off to a good start’
It's said the National Senior Certificate 2017 supplementary examinations went smoothly without any glitches.
The National Senior Certificate 2017 supplementary examinations have commenced and the first day (Wednesday, 22 February) went smoothly without any glitches, according to a statement issued by the Department of Basic Education.
More than 92 000 candidates have enrolled to sit for the examinations in 5 928 centres around the country.
Computer Applications Technology P1 was written by 643 full-time and 1 part-time candidate that day.
According to Elijah Mhlanga of the Department of Basic Education, “The examination proceeded smoothly with no incidents except for a late start at one centre in Limpopo affecting only one candidate.
“Candidates that day wrote computer technology in the morning session and German, Portuguese, Hebrew in the afternoon.Tomorrow (23 February) candidates will sit for mathematics, mathematics literacy and paper 2 of Hindi, Gujarati, Urdu, Tamil, Telugu HL, Arabic, French, Italian, Spanish, Modern Greek and Latin.
“The Department has prepared recorded lessons for 11 subjects as part of the Second Chance Matric Support Programme. The lessons are available as from this week on various selected community radio stations and on the DBE website.”
The exams will continue until Thursday, 30 March 2017.
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