SA Matric Pass Rate Drops
Matric pupils of 2015 in neighbouring South Africa learnt their fate yesterday as the National Senior Certificate results were announced.
The National Senior Certificate is written by all pupils in Grade 12 in South Africa.
After the various South African provinces announced their individual pass rate’s, it was revealed that the national pass rate for Matrics in 2015 dropped from 75.8% in 2014 to 70.7% this year.
Province by province, the Western Cape lead the pack in terms of pass rates with a pass rate of 84.7% – an increase of 2.5 percentage points from 2014.
Gauteng was the second best performing province, with a pass rate of 84.2% and the majority of Gauteng schools obtained a Matric pass rate of more than 60%.
The Free State obtained a Matric pass rate of 81.6%.
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga, announced the national pass rate on Tuesday. She called on South Africans not to focus on the drop in the pass rate but to rather look at the quality of the education, as the 2015 question papers were said to have been much more difficult than previous years’.
