The Department of Basic Education said it was confident that the 2017 National Senior Certificate Examinations would run smoothly.
In a statement on Sunday, the Department said DBE, with provincial education departments, has been hard at work ensuring an appropriate and enabling environment is set to enable seamless administration of the 2017 NSC examinations.
The 2017 NSC Examinations will commence on Monday, when some candidates write the unofficial languages.
“The examination system will however be fully tested on Tuesday 24 October when more than 630,000 candidates will sit (at 9am) for English Paper 1 at Home Language and First Additional Language levels,” said Department spokesperson, Elijah Mhlanga.
“Having experienced challenges in the better part of the year, an intervention plan was put in place to support the 1657 matric learners in secondary schools in the Vuwani region of Limpopo.”
Service delivery protests in Vuwani led to the torching of dozens of schools and caused major disruption to learning and teaching in that area.
Mhlanga also said that the Department of Basic Education concluded intensive Final State of Readiness visits to the nine provinces.
“Security and the protection of the integrity of the NSC Examinations has remained a priority,” he said.
“The Department has therefore continued to put significant focus on ensuring that it mitigates risks associated with the storage and movement of examination scripts employing the ‘’Just in Time’’ printing approach,” he said.
“The approach allows for examination scripts to be printed as close as logistically possible to the writing of the examination.
Mhlanga said a total of 634 527 full time and 168 109 part time have been registered for the exams.
The Minister of Basic Education, Angie Motshekga. will release the 2017 NSC Examination results on the evening of Thursday 04 January and candidates will be able to access their results from Friday 05 January, 2018 through the Departments website and various media outlets.
