Well done class of 2014

According to the results of the National Senior Certificate (NSC) exams, Springs Girls High School (SGHS) and the Springs Muslim School are the top two schools in Springs.
Both schools got a 100% pass rate.
SGHS achieved this pass rate for the 19th consecutive year and the Muslim School for 11.
SGHS principal Daniça Stoffberg is ecstatic about the results.
“The 19 years of a 100% pass rate is due to hard work, the team effort of the staff, parents and matrics and good discipline,” she says.
The school boasts a 78.98% university acceptance rate.
Suliman Ismail, principal of the Springs Muslim School is very proud of his hard working students.
There were 21 learners writing the examination and they achieved a total of 25 distinctions.
Sixteen of these 21 learners received matric exemptions.
Springs Secondary School had a 94% pass rate with six students failing.
The school’s principal Kishan Bodalina says he is pleased with the results because the learners of his school worked hard under difficult circumstances.
Springs Technical High School’s (THS) pass rate has dropped
Marina Rathe, principal of the school, says that they are very disappointed at their pass rate of 57.5%.
“We are proud of the learners who passed,” she says.
The 123 learners who wrote the matric exams achieved a total of 10 distinctions.
Eureka High School achieved a pass rate of 83.05% with 10 distinctions.
Twenty of the 118 matric students failed.
“We didn’t know what to expect with the new curriculum in place as it was the first year, so we are very pleased with the results,” says principal Kobus van Zyl.
Jameson High School has a pass rate of 83% with a total of 10 distinctions.
“We are happy with the results as it has increased from last year’s 72% to 83%,” says principal Satchie Padayache.
Out of 36 learners who wrote the exam, only six failed.
n The national results released on Monday evening reflected a national pass rate of 75.8%.
The NSC examination was written by 550 127 full-time and 138 533 part-time candidates.
While the 75.8% pass rate represents a 2.4 percentage point decrease from the 2013 pass rate of 78.2%, Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga said the bar had been raised to improve the quality of the examination outcome and enhance the quality and standard of Grade 12 graduates.
The class of 2014 was the first matric group to write their examination in the new Curriculum Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS).
Although Gauteng’s pass rate for 2014 has dropped from 87% in 2013 to 84.7%, it is the province that had the the highest pass rate in the country.
The MEC of Education in Gauteng, Panyaza Lesufi, said this examination was the first benchmark after South Africans complained about the quality of matric.
“We have strengthened that quality, which makes these learners the best in the history of this country,” says Lesufi.