Lights go off, matric finals go on

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Umalusi, the Quality Assurance Council, has a well-established standardisation process that is designed to detect any element of unfairness that confronts a specific cohort of candidates. The issue of load shedding and its possible negative impact on learner's results will be considered at the Umalusi standardisation process so as to ensure that no learner is disadvantaged due to load shedding.

Ensuring that that the negative impact is mitigated

The DBE in conjunction with the provincial education departments continues to work tirelessly to ensure that that the negative impact of the load shedding on candidates is mitigated. Practical examinations have already been written and none of the examinations written this week will require electricity as part of the actual examination, however where there may be delays due to train services etcetera, this will be accommodated by the examination centres.

According to the reports received by the department, the first week of the 2014 NSC examinations progressed well around the country with no major incidents reported. Candidates last week began the journey to achieve their NSC as a total of 550,127 full-time and 138,533 part-time candidates took their places to write English on day one.

Having written the first Mathematics paper on the morning of Friday, 31 October 2014, 318,994 full-time and 30,857 part-time candidates will sit for Mathematical Literacy while a further 231,180 full-time and 67,652 part-time candidates wrote the second Mathematics paper today.

On Tuesday, 4 October 2014, 140,860 full-time and 23,556 part-time candidates will commence their Economics examination; while a further 41,674 full-time and 1,389 part-time candidates will write Computer Application Technology in the second session.

For more info, contact Elijah Mhlanga on 083 580 8275.