The Department of Basic Education (DBE) said on Thursday that the National Senior Certificate 2017 supplementary examinations had started smoothly.
The exams started on Wednesday with more than 92,000 candidates enrolled in 5,928 centres around the country.
Computer Applications Technology Paper 1 was written by 643 full-time and one part-time candidate on Wednesday. The examination proceeded smoothly with no incidents except for a late start at one centre in Limpopo affecting only one candidate.
On Thursday, candidates sat for Computer Technology in the morning session and German, Portuguese and Hebrew in the afternoon.
On Friday, candidates will sit for Mathematics, Mathematics Literacy and paper 2 of Hindi, Gujarati, Urdu, Tamil, Telugu HL, Arabic, French, Italian, Spanish, Modern Greek and Latin.
The Department has prepared recorded lessons for 11 subjects as part of the Second Chance Matric Support Programme. The lessons are available as from this week on various selected community radio stations and on the DBE website.
The exams will continue until March 30.
– African News Agency (ANA)
