Matric results will be announced in January
METRO – The Department of Basic Education announces that matric results will be released in January 2015.
The Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga has praised all those involved in the delivery of a successful 2014 National Senior Certificate [NSC] examinations.
In a media statement released by the department, Motshekga thanked teachers, officials and candidates for a smooth matric exam around the country which commenced on 27October and ended 27 November.
Earlier in the week, the department announced that the names of the pupils will no longer be published in the newspapers.
The Council of Education Ministers held their final meeting on 24 November, where they announced few changes that will place in future, including raising the pass mark for matriculants.
“CEM [Council of Education Ministers] also took a decision that the publishing of individual Grade 12 pupils’ results should be reviewed. However, the ministers resolved that the results for this year would still be published in newspapers this year, but will only reflect the pupil’s ID and exam numbers. The decision follows a recommendation of the Task Team that the practice of publishing the names of the individual pupils in the newspapers should be reviewed,”‘ reads the Department’s statement.
The department has commended the swift actions of Eastern Cape SAPS who acted promptly three weeks ago in relocating pupils from one school to another after protesters threatened to disrupt the examinations.
The examinations were conducted well with no major incidents affecting the integrity or credibility of the examinations.
A total of 688 660 candidates were registered to write the examination this year, of which 550 127 were full-time candidates and 138 533 were part-time candidates.
These candidates wrote their examination across 6 740 examination centres where invigilation was conducted by an estimated 65 000 invigilators.
A total of 258 NSC question papers for the November 2014 and March 2015 examinations were set by the Department of Basic Education and externally moderated by Umalusi
Marking will commence on 30 November, with 41 000 markers involved in the marking of the scripts at 118 marking venues across the country.
The marking of the 2014 NSC examinations will be concluded across all provincial education departments by 18 December 2014.
All marks will then be captured on the computer system of the National Department of Basic Education in preparation for Umalusi’s
standardisation processes to take place from 21 to 23 December.
The minister will announce the 2014 NSC results on 5 January 2015 but pupils can collect their statements of results from their various schools on 6 January 2015 at 8am.
Details: Department of Basic Education https://www.education.gov.za/or Spokesperson Elijah Mhlanga 083 580 8275.
