{"id":290678,"date":"2019-01-03T18:45:24","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T16:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=290678"},"modified":"2019-01-03T18:57:57","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T16:57:57","slug":"2018-matric-pass-rate-78-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/trending\/290678-2018-matric-pass-rate-78-2.html","title":{"rendered":"2018 matric pass rate &#8211; 78.2%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga has announced the matric pass rate for the class of 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The national matric pass rate for the class of 2018 is 78.2%. Excluding progressed learners, the pass rate was 79.4%<\/p>\n<p>Umalusi&#8217;s statistics for the 2018 national exams stated that there were\u00a0629,141 full-time matrics and 167,401 part-time matrics &#8211; making a total of\u00a0796,542 learners writing matric exams.<\/p>\n<p>Of these, 33,413 were progressed learners who were pushed into matric from Grade 11. Motshekga said 60.2% of progressed learners passed their matric exams.<\/p>\n<p>The minister said that 172,043 matric students achieved a bachelor&#8217;s pass, while 141,700 achieved a diploma pass. 86,800 achieved a higher certificate pass.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In 2018, about 157,000 distinctions were achieved, a decline of 2.6% from 2017,&#8221; added the minister.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Provincial matric pass rates<\/h3>\n<p>The matric pass rates for the provinces were also detailed, and are as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gauteng &#8211; <strong>87.9%<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Free State &#8211; <strong>87.5%<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Western Cape &#8211; <strong>81.5%<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>North West &#8211; <strong>81.1%<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Mpumalanga &#8211; <strong>79.0%<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>KwaZulu-Natal &#8211; <strong>76.2%<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Northern Cape &#8211; <strong>73.3%<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Eastern Cape &#8211; <strong>70.6%<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Limpopo &#8211; <strong>69.4%<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It must be noted that the matric class of 2017 achieved a pass rate of 75.1%, up from 72.5% in 2016.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/government\/290120-drivers-licence-mess-in-tshwane.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Driver\u2019s licence mess in Tshwane<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga has announced the matric pass rate for the class of 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":192912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40380],"tags":[28324,35,21425,56440],"class_list":["post-290678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-department-of-education","tag-headline","tag-matric","tag-matric-2018"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290678"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290682,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290678\/revisions\/290682"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}