News24 Wire Marking across provinces started on 4 January and the completion date was set to Friday, 22 January. This year s matric class could find it hard going, having missed out on much of Grade 11. Picture: Nigel Sibanda
The department held a technical briefing on the marking process in Pretoria on Wednesday.
Free State, North West, Western Cape, and the centralised marking centres were the only sites to finish and expected to wrap up by Friday, 22 January.
“Over 90% of our marking centres have completely closed,” the department’s director-general Mathanzima Mweli said during the briefing.
The department said 9.5 million scripts were marked in 177 centres by 45 000 markers.
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JOHANNESBURG - Marking of the 2020 National Senior Certificate exam papers is ahead of schedule, according to the education department.
Basic Education Director-General Mathanzima Mweli visited 181 marking centres around the country to monitor the status of the marking process.
The DG said despite challenges like load-shedding, there was minimal impact on distribution.
He stated the department is ahead of schedule by three to four days.
Mweli said 90 percent of the marking centres have closed and are now in the process of standardisation.
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It wasn’t enough that in 2020 South Africa found itself in the midst of a Covid-19 pandemic. Matriculants’ stress levels were compounded by the news of the deliberate leaking of two NSC exam papers in late 2020.
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I was chatting with some grade 12 learners who had completed their Grade 12 National Senior Certificate (NSC) or matriculation exams. They said they were not sure which was worse: to immediately repeat the Maths Paper 2 and Physical Science Paper 2 examinations, which were leaked, or to wait until early 2021 for Umalusi to decide on the credibility and integrity of the NSC.
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The Department of Basic Education director-general (DG), Mathanzima Mweli, shared an update on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the basic education sector on Wednesday. File image. 45,000 examiners are expected to start marking the 2020 matric final exams on 4 January 2021.
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The Department’s Director General (DG), Mathanzima Mweli shared an update on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the basic education sector on Wednesday.