Matric doesn't add up

[lsuacner]

My mom once marked matric papers, in a school where everyone failed Afrikaans the newspaper however accurately reported that the whole school passed. Marks are already adjusted to meet pre-determined targets.

School should be damn hard, it should test the competency of a student and document it on paper for employers and hopefully some students will strive to learn and succeed. The goal should not be a 50% pass rate but a something so difficult that the average student should barely pass if they study their asses off and results above 70% should be considered exceptional.

So in conclusion, the current educational system and the fake adjusted results are a joke. They are fooling themselves. Companies now do aptitude tests, problem solved. The students are however disadvantaged as they will never be able to learn what they should know.

 

[The_Right_Honourable_Brit]

I did the normal Maths papers. Pretty easy, except for one or two questions (I suppose they need to differentiate between 95 and 100 lol) on Maths Paper 1. Maths Paper 2 was a complete walk in the park. The papers are uploaded after the Supplementary examinations in March on the WCED website. I'm going to love seeing the English HL answers, because the questions were so vague, you could answer anything yet only 13 people got As for English.

 

[Sneeky]

Interesting observations in this article.


http://www.politicsweb.co.za/politicsweb/view/politicsweb/en/page71654?oid=113645&sn=Detail

 

[Pilgrim]

So in conclusion, the current educational system and the fake adjusted results are a joke. They are fooling themselves. Companies now do aptitude tests, problem solved. The students are however disadvantaged as they will never be able to learn what they should know.

And that is the biggest problem. By the time these people grow up and are ready to start working they cannot. And at that time it is too late to redo 12 years of education.

They cannot go to university to further their education, and they cannot get a job with the joke of an education they have at the moment.

Skills crisis? What skills crisis?

 

[Abe]

What scares me more then anything else is how someone can get 100% for maths in matric. The paper should be such that there is always something that one doesn't know.

 

[shadowfox]

I don't think the matric mark squabble is going to die down anytime soon - going by the latest bit of news.

Sorry guys ... but you got handed a raw deal by matriculating this year ...

Johannesburg - Senior education officials allegedly instructed at least two teachers to inflate matric results, the Democratic Alliance said on Tuesday.

The party had been approached by two people who claimed that some matric marks were deliberately raised, said spokesperson Desiree van der Walt in a statement.

The rest here:
http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/Politics/0,,2-7-12_2449412,00.html

 

[The_Right_Honourable_Brit]

I don't understand all the fuss about the inflating of matric results. It's well known that matric marks are moderated to fit into the "Bell Curve". And matric moderation has been happening less this year - previously one get 90%+ easily for subjects like Afrikaans and English (because of HG and moderation) but with the new matric, it's extremely hard to get above 90%. So I'd hazard a guess the inevitable raising of marks has happened less than in previous years.

 

[Ekhaatvensters]

And yet 35% still failed the Maths paper . I think I'll have to go to extra lessons next year for Business Science even though I did get a high "A" for maths this year.

You'll be fine if you just attend lectures and take the notes. What would have helped a lot for Mam1002 (you can practically sit out the first semester) is doing Add Maths at school.

So I'd hazard a guess the inevitable raising of marks has happened less than in previous years.

It might have happened more on the lower end of the scale. I doubt they care as much about pushing people up to 90's as they do about passing the majority of students.

 

[shadowfox]

I don't understand all the fuss about the inflating of matric results. It's well known that matric marks are moderated to fit into the "Bell Curve". And matric moderation has been happening less this year - previously one get 90%+ easily for subjects like Afrikaans and English (because of HG and moderation) but with the new matric, it's extremely hard to get above 90%. So I'd hazard a guess the inevitable raising of marks has happened less than in previous years.

The article doesn't concern the adjusting of the marks to fit the bell curve at all - rather - it concerns teachers being asked to mark up exams.