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JOHANNESBURG – Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga announced that enrollment students will be required to retake two tests that were leaked shortly before they were written.
Last month, physics article two was leaked hours before the tuition students sat down to write it.
A week earlier, the second math essay was also leaked.
According to Motshekga, due to rumors of the Business Studies document leak, the department replaced the document and implemented more steps to protect the exams.
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A research team was tasked with establishing the scope of the leak in order to determine if a rewrite of Mathematics P2 and Physical Science 2 is necessary.
The team found that the dissemination of information on cyber networks made it “practically impossible” to accurately identify the number of students who had access to the leaked questionnaires.
The department consulted with key stakeholders, including representatives of the school governing body associations, the association of school principals, teacher unions and the quality assurance agency, Umalusi, on the way forward.
“The National Senior Certificate (NSC) is the flagship qualification related to schooling. The credibility of the NSC exam is of the utmost importance.
“Any lingering doubts related to the credibility of the NSC exams should be thoroughly investigated and addressed. Preventing pre-access to the question paper is what all security measures are directed at.
“Having considered all these factors, the CEM decided that a national rewriting of Test 2 in Mathematics and Test 2 in Physical Sciences is necessary.”
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The mathematics article will be written on Tuesday, December 15 at 2:00 p.m. and the physical science article 2 will be written on Thursday, December 17 at 9 a.m.
The minister clarified that those responsible for the leakage of the questionnaires were adults.
He expressed his appreciation for the work being done by the Directorate of Priority Criminal Investigations and the hard work of officials at all levels of the educational system.
“We welcome the arrest that has been made and hope that more arrests will follow. We really need to send a strong message that tampering with the national test is a serious crime.”
