Important reminder to any 2022 matriculants who wish to have an exam paper (or several exam papers) marked that the application deadline is this week.
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The National Senior Certificate (NSC) results for the matriculation year of 2022 were issued by the Department of Basic Education in mid-January.
The results indicated that the pass rate increased by 3.7% to 80.1%.
Angie Motshekga, minister of Basic Education, stated in a national address that the 2022 cohort was the most resilient to date in the face of the Covid epidemic and load shedding.
The agency has notified that high school seniors have till Friday, February 3, 2023 to request a remark or recheck on their examination papers.
Scripts may only be viewed after a comment or recheck of the results. The application deadline is seven days following the announcement of remark or recheck results. The viewing cost is R234.
Those wishing to have an exam paper commented are encouraged to visit the website www.education.gov.za or consult the back of their exam results sheet for a detailed guide on how to proceed.
In the meanwhile, the next opportunity for students to retake exams or improve their scores will be in May/June 2023.
In addition, students have until 8 February 2023 and 15 March 2023 to enrol for the May/June and October/November 2023 exams, respectively.
If you wish to retake your matriculation examination or improve your grades, there is always a second chance.
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— Dep. Education Fundamentals (@DBE SA) on January 20, 2023
According to the department, 87% (725 146) of the 922 034 matriculants who enrolled to sit the exams last year were full-time students.
The pass rate for bachelor’s degrees grew by 8.9%, and the pass rate for diplomas also climbed.
Motshekga said that Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal produced the greatest number of bachelor’s degrees.
278 815 students in the matric class of 2022 earned a bachelor’s degree, 197 357 (26.7%) earned a diploma, and 108 159 (14.9%) earned a higher certificate.
She said that 12 new academic offerings were made available to the class of 2022, including South African Sign Language and mechanical technology.
Motshekga elaborated on the scale and scope of the matriculation examinations by providing the following data:
9200,000 applicants took the examinations.
162 question papers were set
There were 10.4 million test papers printed.
There were 9.8 million scripts produced.
73,000 election monitors were deployed across the nation.
52,000 markers
In 2022, more students (725 146) wrote than in 2021. (703 599).
Motshekga stated that all provinces improved in the following ways (including the number of advanced learners):
Free State – 88.5 percent
Gauteng – 84.4%
KwaZulu-Natal – 83%
Cape Province -81.4%
North West – 79.8 percent
Eastern Cape – 77.3 percent
Mpumalanga – 76.8%
Northern Cape – 74.2 percent
Limpopo – 72.1%
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