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Preparations for the National Senior Certificate 2014 examinations in all nine provinces have been completed, says Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga.
•            A total of 688 660 matric pupils are registered to write the examination this year.
•            Which 550 127 were full-time candidates and 138 533 were part-time pupils.
•            These pupils will write their examination across 6 740 examination centres.
•            Almost 65 000 invigilators will make sure the exams are free of wrongdoing.
•            Measures have been put in place to ensure no leaking of papers.
•            Markers will take a competency test.
•            Final preparations were being made for the seven million answer scripts to be collected on  the day the examination would be written.
•            The papers would then be placed in storage and shifted to the 117 marking centres across the country for marking by a selected team of 41 564 markers.