{"id":193080,"date":"2017-01-04T18:42:24","date_gmt":"2017-01-04T16:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=193080"},"modified":"2017-01-04T19:05:43","modified_gmt":"2017-01-04T17:05:43","slug":"2016-matric-pass-rate-72-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/government\/193080-2016-matric-pass-rate-72-5.html","title":{"rendered":"2016 Matric pass rate – 72.5%"},"content":{"rendered":"

Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga announced that the matric pass rate for 2016 was 72.5%, up from 70.7% in 2015.<\/p>\n

Candidates can get their individual results on 5 January from their school or the centre where they wrote their exams, major newspapers, local websites, and SMS and USSD services.<\/p>\n

Over\u00a050% of learners passed with the required standard to enable them to access higher education, said the department’s Dr Rufus Poliah.<\/p>\n

More than 108,000 “progressed learners” had\u00a0a significant impact on the National Senior Certificate pass rate.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Excluding progressed learners, the matric 2016 pass rate was 76.2%.<\/p>\n

Maths and science<\/h3>\n

TimesLive<\/strong><\/a> reported that in physical science,\u00a03.7% of pupils who wrote – 7,043 learners –\u00a0received a distinction.<\/p>\n

In maths\u201a 3% – 8,070 learners – who wrote received a distinction.<\/p>\n

The performance of provinces in terms of their matric pass rates is as follows (excluding progressed learners):<\/p>\n