2025 matric exam leak detected during marking
The Department of Basic Education has revealed that an examination breach was detected during the marking process for the 2025 National Senior Certificate exams.
"The breach was detected through the department's internal monitoring and oversight...
Official vs "real" matric pass rate — from 1995 to 2021
Basic education minister Angie Motshega announced this week that 76.4% of matrics who wrote their final exams in 2021 had passed.
However, experts have said the education department’s emphasis on increasing the matric pass rate has come...
South African matrics – why you may not go to university next year
If the stand-off between the government, universities, and protesting students does not end soon, the matric class of 2016 may be turned away from studying further in 2017.