{"id":77851,"date":"2015-01-05T09:32:24","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T07:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/77851\/matric-pass-rate-drop-expected-ahead-results-announcement\/"},"modified":"2015-01-05T09:32:24","modified_gmt":"2015-01-05T07:32:24","slug":"matric-pass-rate-drop-expected-ahead-results-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/01\/05\/matric-pass-rate-drop-expected-ahead-results-announcement\/","title":{"rendered":"Matric pass rate drop expected ahead of results announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister will officially announce the outcome of the 2014 NSC examinations in an event to be broadcast live on TV and on the department\u2019s website. Candidates will also access their results in various newspapers on January 6 using only exam numbers and no names.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, Professor John Volmink, the head of the council of standards body Umalusi, told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citypress.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\">City Press<\/a> in an interview he expects the pass rate to drop between 3 per cent and 5 per cent.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The department said in a statement, \u201cCandidates need to obtain their results at the school or exam centre where they wrote their examination.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTeachers will be on hand to assist with queries and offer support and advice as well as provide relevant information where necessary.\u201d<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>A total of 688 660 candidates registered to write the examination this year, of which 550 127 were Full Time candidates and 138 533 were Part Time candidates. These examinations were written across 6 740 examination centres with 65 000 invigilators supervising the process over 5 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>KwaZulu-Natal Province had the largest Full Time enrollment (147 605 candidates) and Gauteng was the second province with the highest number of Full Time candidates at 101 284. The Northern Cape enrolled the smallest cohort of 9 504 Full Time candidates this year.<\/p>\n<p>Nationally, 300 153 (54.6 per cent) female candidates, and 249 974 male candidates (45.4 per cent) have enrolled to write the 2014 NSC examination.<\/p>\n<p>The national pass rate has climbed steadily from 60.6 per cent in 2009, soaring from 73.9 per cent in 2012 to an all-time post-1994 high of 78.2 per cent last year.<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='8570cce54d7be9f79d0fd44339362a93'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Basic Education is ready the release of National Senior Certificate (NSC) national and provincial pass rates will be announced by Minister Angie Motshekga this evening (January 5). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":77852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8516],"tags":[6192,3155,1755,1648,3213,5980,2563,4985,1074,2362],"class_list":["post-77851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-headlines","category-local-school-news","tag-angie-motshekga","tag-department-of-basic-education","tag-education","tag-gauteng","tag-johannesburg","tag-kwa-zulu-natal","tag-matric-results","tag-sabc","tag-schools","tag-south-africa"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Schools"},"tag_labels":["angie motshekga","department of basic education","education","Gauteng","Johannesburg","Kwa-Zulu Natal","matric results","sabc","schools","South Africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}