South Africa is looking at a 75% pass mark for student funding from 2023

[mojoman]

Its not a 75% pass mark. You need to pass 75% of your modules.

Maybe I missed it in the article...
What is currently required then?
Pass 50% of modules?

 

[DA-LION-619]

Title is cringe worthy, like an A aggregate system would be believable.

 

[rvZA]

LOL... what a joke!

 

[Grubscrew]

Come in with 75%, settle on 60%.....

 

[thestaggy]

Maybe I missed it in the article...
What is currently required then?
Pass 50% of modules?

Correct, 50% pass for modules.

 

[agentrfr]

its not 75% average to get funding, it is that you need to pass 75% of modules

It's actually very reasonable. It would kill off all those 10+ year undergrad students in engineering (which was something like 50% of my 3rd and 4th year classes iirc)

 

[rietrot]

The 75% mark is meant in terms of modules, if I understand correctly. Meaning that you have to pass 75% of your modules a year. So around 7 - 8 subjects in a year for 10 subjects. It's really not an unreasonable request.

You the only person that bother to read the article. Go away we like arguing over irrelevant stuff.

 

[mojoman]

Correct, 50% pass for modules.

Seems fair then to up it to 75%....Im sure if you are there to study you can achieve this....?
and still have a party or two....

 

[thestaggy]

Seems fair then to up it to 75%....Im sure if you are there to study you can achieve this....?
and still have a party or two....

Perfectly reasonable. Even more so as you are on the tax-payers' dime.

I studied part-time. 31 modules if I remember correctly. Passed 29 of them the first time, stuffed up in 2 exams but qualified for supps.

If you, as a full-time student, cannot pass your modules then you are screwing around.

 

[slimeball]

New rules are that you need to pass 75% of modules per year. At UCT for engineering you do around 10 modules per year. This means that you need to pass 7/10 modules per year (you can fail 3 modules). Now as someone who struggled with academics my whole life, in my worst year I passed 8/10 modules and the year after that 9/10 of my modules, so 3 fails in total (over 2 years) out of 43 modules (5 years). Still graduating with a +60% average though.

Now assume that someone consistently fails 3 courses per year, this delays graduation by approximately a year. So after 4 years of failing courses (12 failed courses), you graduate in approximately 8 years which is ridiculous and you probably shouldn't be studying engineering in that case.

My opinion though is that you shouldn't fail more than 2-3 courses throughout your degree. Imagine seeing a transcript with 12 fails on it, that belongs in one place only, the trash can. Mine has 3 on it and I hate seeing those F's. A 80% pass is far more realistic. Not sure why they chose 75%.