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- Students in grades 10 and 11 will now write controlled tests based on the work that has been covered.
- The weighting requirements for grades have been modified due to the impact Covid-19 has had on teaching and learning.
- When subjects have two questions for assessment, they should now be reduced to one but cover the content of both.
The Department of Basic Education has revised the promotion requirements for students in grades 10 and 11 due to the impact of Covid-19.
This according to a circular issued by the director general of the department, Mathanzima Mweli, on September 12 addressed, among others, to the provincial departments, the Qualifications Authority of South Africa, the associations of governing bodies of the schools, the Board of Independent Exams and Teacher Organizations.
The three-page circular, which News24 has seen, stated that the Covid-19 closure and intermittent school closures have had an impact on teaching, learning and assessments, resulting in the revision of promotion requirements. for the 2020 school year.
Department spokesman Elijah Mhlanga confirmed the document to News24.
According to the department, paragraph 29 of the policy document, the National Policy on the Program and Promotion Requirements of the National Curriculum Statements for Grades R to 12, provided for promotion requirements for grades 10 to 12.
He said that the current 25% weighting for School Assessments (SBA) for grades 10 and 11 has therefore now increased to 60% and the exam component decreased to 40%. This will now see a weighting of 60:40 compared to the known 25:75.
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“Based on the revised annual teaching plans and assessment programs, and the time spent on teaching and learning, the promotion requirements for 2020 have been revised.
“The proposed promotion requirements are provisional in nature and will only apply in the year 2020,” Mweli wrote.
The department also instructed that for practical subjects, 20% of their exams should be assigned to the practical assessment task.
Instead of the usual full set of tests, the two grades would now write controlled tests, which should only be established based on the content that would have been taught, circular reading.
The department said the controlled tests should cover a substantial part of the curriculum that would have been taught, preferably work covered in all terms, when possible.
The tests must adhere to a prescribed standard in terms of content coverage and must be administered under controlled conditions.
“All controlled tests must adhere to pre- and post-moderation protocols to ensure compliance with standards.
“Core subjects [languages and mathematics/mathematics literacy] will offer the required number of jobs with a reduced duration. ”
Test questions should also be reduced to one, with 11th graders set to two hours and 10th graders set one hour.
However, the content of the tests should, where possible, incorporate the topic that both articles would have covered.
Mweli said the national subject committee will describe the composition of 60% of the SBAs and 40% of the controlled tests in terms of subject content and grades.
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