2017 Matric pass rate - 75.1%

[Jan]

2017 Matric pass rate – 75.1%

Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga announced that the matric pass rate for 2017 was 75.1%, up from 72.5% in 2016.

 

[koeks525]

Eastern Cape always comes in last place. Will EC ever move up the ranks... even by 1 position?

Weaker progressed learners – who are over age or have repeated grade 11 more than once – are pushed through to matric, who then potentially bring down the pass rate when writing the final exams.

Savage MyBroadband writers :crylaugh:

 

[krycor]

Eastern Cape always comes in last place. Will EC ever move up the ranks... even by 1 position?



Savage MyBroadband writers :crylaugh:

Not something you can fix overnight. It requires a bottom & middle up approach which takes years before results show which is not helpful for politicians.

Provinces that do well had existing base to leverage. If anything I’d say the Northern Cape & Eastern Cape (more so) were the losers in the provincial dividing on SA. Gauteng & Western Cape being the big winners.

To redress this, there needed to be significant investment in the EC to make up for losses but sadly not exactly the way ANC runs provinces.

 

[jannievanzyl]

Need to see a corresponding plot of kids entering the school system vs how many enter matric 12-odd years later.

The culling happening in grade 10 or 11 is a big concern.

 

[henry1103]

Need to see a corresponding plot of 5 kids entering the school system vs how many enter matric 12-odd years later.

The culling happening in grade 10 or 11 is a big concern.

You mean something like this article?

 

[Ninja'd]

•Northern Cape – 76.6%

Cool. 27 of them passed this year.

 

[Johnatan56]

Need to see a corresponding plot of 5 kids entering the school system vs how many enter matric 12-odd years later.

The culling happening in grade 10 or 11 is a big concern.

Yep, from: https://www.timeslive.co.za/politic...-rate-is-not-a-cause-for-celebration-says-da/

Marchesi said 41% of pupils who had enrolled in Grade 10 in 2015 did not make it to matric last year‚ meaning they were “dropping out or getting stuck in the system”. As a result their entry into tertiary education and the job market was delayed.
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“The 2017 national matric pass rate for candidates who wrote the exams was 75.1%‚ while the ‘real’ pass rate – the number of Grade 10s from 2015 who passed matric 2017 – was only 37.3%. This is cause for serious concern‚ rather than celebration.”

EDIT:
And this one was fun: https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/so...es-at-no-fee-schools-than-fee-paying-schools/

There were more bachelor passes at no-fee schools than fee-paying schools in 2017.

That is what the Minister of Basic Education‚ Angie Motshekga‚ said on Thursday when she announced the matric results for 2017 at the SABC in Auckland Park‚ Johannesburg.
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No-fee schools produced 76‚300 bachelor passes while fee-paying schools produced 67‚867 bachelor passes

And from this one that is a reply to it: https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/so...vement-in-poorer-schools-says-teachers-union/

She said this means in 2017‚ “no fee” schools produced 53% of the bachelor passes‚ "outstripping" fee-paying schools that produced 47% of the bachelor passes.
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Manuel noted that roughly about 75% of schools are no-fee schools and only 25% are schools where parents pay fees.

 

[jannievanzyl]

You mean something like this article?

Yup.

That article was published after my comment above though.

 

[Icemanbrfc]

What was prison pass rate?