South Africa’s Council for Quality Assurance in General andFurther Education and Training, known as Umalusi, has approved the country’s 2018 national examination results, it said on Friday.
The National Senior Certificate was written by 796 542 students.
There were, however, several irregularities worth mentioning.
In Gauteng, the principal of Mpontsheng Secondary School allegedly gave answers to learners during the writing of Geography Paper 1.
Subsequently, candidates were afforded an opportunity to rewrite the examination immediately after the end of the scheduled examinations.
In the Eastern Cape, an incident that affected the writing of English Home Language and English First Additional Language Paper 1 was reported at one school where candidates did not write the paper due to protests by candidates who were registered for Multiple Exam Opportunities (MEO).
These candidates were also afforded an opportunity to rewrite.
Umalusi said its quality assurance process focused on the external moderation of question papers for all subjects/learning areas/instructional offerings across all qualifications and assessment bodies.
It also focused on:
There was “a marked improvement in the overall quality of question papers across the assessment bodies as more papers are approved after first or second submission to external moderators”.
The council also said that the 2018 national examinations went smoothly, “without any systemic irregularities”.
African News Agency (ANA)
