South Africa’s ‘30%’ matric pass mark controversy – this is how the system works

[BusinessTech]

South Africa’s ‘30%’ matric pass mark controversy – this is how the system works

South Africa's 30% pass mark is again causing a stir.

 

[ConfusedR]

"The department said in 2022 that it is aware of arguments that raising this threshold to 50% would improve the education system; however, it said that this change would not be made as the system aims to encourage ‘different levels of achievement’."

They have to lower the education standard to benefit the lazy, useless and stupid.

 

[mojoman]

"The department said in 2022 that it is aware of arguments that raising this threshold to 50% would improve the education system; however, it said that this change would not be made as the system aims to encourage ‘different levels of achievement’."

They have to lower the education standard to benefit the lazy, useless and stupid.

But with those qualities you could very well become president of the Republic of South Africa...

 

[ConfusedR]

So the pass mark is 40%
Still utterly useless and pathetic

 

[MalcomZ]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1612337756088242177

 

[noxibox]

arguments that raising this threshold to 50% would improve the education system

People who argue that presumably only managed 30%. Otherwise they'd understand that you can't improve an education system by raising the pass mark.

So the pass mark is 40%
Still utterly useless and pathetic

Same as it was for higher grade in the Apartheid days then. Standard grade was closer to 30% and lower grade was even less.

 

[ConfusedR]

People who argue that presumably only managed 30%. Otherwise they'd understand that you can't improve an education system by raising the pass mark.


Same as it was for higher grade in the Apartheid days then. Standard grade was closer to 30% and lower grade was even less.

Cannot be
Because on some subjects I was on standard grade and the pass was 45%
So higher grade was 50% or more

 

[rvZA]

Good lord... I have seen high school children who had an average of less than 20% at the end of the year and they all got promoted to the next grade. The 30% is a myth and they promote children irrelevant of marks.

 

[ConfusedR]

Good lord... I have seen high school children who had an average of less than 20% at the end of the year and they all got promoted to the next grade. The 30% is a myth and they promote children irrelevant of marks.

Exactly. They do not want to keep children back because of bad marks because, you know, the poor kids feelings.
And then they wonder why youth unemployment is so high.
No company wants to employ a 30percenter or a 20percenter that was pushed through just because of the poor kid's feelings.

 

[HunterNW]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1612337756088242177

"Undermining our intelligence"
He he he he ......... Lmao.