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Umalusi, the Quality Council for General and Further Education and Training, has established a 3-member independent panel to investigate the reasons that led to the inclusion of the “problematic” Question 5.1 in one of this year's Matric Exam papers.
The question appeared in the final Mathematics Paper 2 question paper of the Department of Basic Education (DBE) that was written on the 7th of November.
Umalusi says in a statement that the panel has been tasked with investigating how the error crept in and why it was not detected between the examiners and internal and external moderators up to the printing stage.
The 3-member panel is chaired by Penelope Vinjevold and the other members are Professor Sudan Hansraj and Prof. Nic Heideman.
The panel has the mandate to fully investigate the matter and submit its final report to Umalusi - which will share the report publicly on the 16th of January.
Umalusi assured the public that it will do everything humanly possible to ensure that no candidate is disadvantaged by the error in Question 5.1
The question was worth seven marks.
