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Umalusi gives its approval to 2020 National Senior Cert...

Despite numerous isolated irregularities and two leaked examination papers, the 2020 National Senior Certificate (NSC) exam results have been approved by the quality assurance body Umalusi.
However, Umalusi did state that the investigation into the leaks that rocked the Department of Basic Education (DBE) during the exams last year is still ongoing.
The DBE administered the NSC examinations of 1,055,529 candidates – making it the largest exam ever sat for in SA, as a result of the cancellation of the June rewrite exams that could not take place because of Covid-19 and had to be combined with the November exams.
“The executive committee of the council is satisfied that, based on the evidence [presented by the DBE], there were no systemic irregularities which might have compromised the overall credibility and integrity of the 2020 NSC exams,” said Professor John Volmink, Umalusi’s chair of the council.

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Basic Education Dept: 2020 matric exam paper leaks were not widespread

Basic Education Dept: 2020 matric exam paper leaks were not widespread
The leak of the Maths Paper 2 and Physical Science Paper 2 exams brought the integrity of the 2020 National Senior Certificate exams into question.
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JOHANNESBURG – While the full extent of the 2020 matric exam paper leaks may never be known, an investigation found no evidence of major collusion among matriculants.
The Maths and Physical Science papers were leaked in November hours before pupils sat for the exams.
The Basic Education Department launched an extensive investigation to probe the full extent of the leaks.
The leak of the Maths Paper 2 and Physical Science Paper 2 exams brought the integrity of the 2020 National Senior Certificate exams into question.

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Vandals and storms damage schools, says education department

Vandals and storms damage schools, says education department
15 Feb 2021
Children go back to school today (Monday), but 52 schools have been damaged by severe storms in recent weeks.
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Children go back to school today (Monday), but 52 schools have been damaged by severe storms in recent weeks.
Provincial departments have, however, made arrangements for learners at some of these schools to be accommodated in neighbouring schools. Others will be placed in mobile classrooms.
Fifty of the damaged schools are in the Eastern Cape, one is in Mpumalanga and another in the North West, according to a presentation on Sunday afternoon by basic education director general Mathanzima Mweli ahead of schools opening for the 2021 academic calendar on Monday.

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Matric 2020 exam leak was not widespread, investigators claim

Despite the leak of two matric papers last year, the integrity of the 2020 senior certificate exams as a whole was not compromised.

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9 000 Grade 1 and 16 000 Grade 8 pupils unplaced as 2021 school year kicks off

More than 25 000 schoolchildren will not be joining their peers as schools across South Africa reopen this week, as the Department of Basic Education has yet to place them.

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Report find matric exams were not compromised by leaks

A report by Hugh Amoore, the chair of the National Investigations Task Team said the evidence available to them showed that the leak was minimal and had not compromised the two subjects or examinations.

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Investigations into matric paper leaks not complete – Umalusi

Umalusi says the investigations into the leaking of two matric exam papers is not complete, leaving room for the DBE to block the results of pupils involved in the incidents.

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2020 matric exams were not compromised, Dept of Basic Education

The overall integrity of the Physical Sciences 2 and Mathematics 2 papers were not compromised.

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Matric results of learners involved in exam leaks to be...

After a failed attempt to have the 2020 National Senior Certificate (NSC) candidates rewrite two leaked papers, maths and physical sciences, the National Investigations Task Team (Nitt), operating under the auspices of the National Examinations Irregularities Committee (NEIC), found that the full extent of the leaks can’t be determined.
“Given the fact that the spread of the questions papers was done via WhatsApp, it is a fact that the full extent of the leaks may never be revealed,” said Hugh Amoore, chair of Nitt.
“But, based on the available evidence we have at the moment from the investigative marking, interviews and statistical analysis, widespread leaks did not occur.”

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2020 matric exams were 'not compromised' despite papers being leaked

While the true extent of the 2020 matric examination leaks might never be known, officials investigating these irregularities are emphatic that the exams have not been compromised.

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