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DBE Minister Angie Motshekga announces Matric 2021 results.
- The Department of Basic Education has announced the results of the 2020 enrollment.
- Free State has the highest number of passing tuition students, for the second year in a row, followed by Gauteng, Western Cape and KZN.
- The national pass rate for the 2020 NSC results was 76.2%.
Free State has the highest percentage of enrollment students who passed their 2020 National Senior Certificate (NSC) exams, for the second year in a row.
This according to official NSC results released by Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga on Monday.
The national pass rate for the NSC 2020 was 76.2%, a decrease of 5.1 percentage points from the previous year.
The minister said she expected a “bloodbath,” however, she was “grateful” that the class of 2020 achieved a 76.2% pass rate.
She praised the teachers and class of 2020, saying they “stood their ground.”
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The Free State had the highest approval rate with 85.1%, a decrease of 3.2% compared to the previous year, followed by Gauteng with 83.3%, Western Cape with 79.9% and KwaZulu-Natal with 77.6%.
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The Northwest approval rate was 76.2%, Mpumalanga scored 73.7%, Limpopo 68.2%, Eastern Cape 68.1% and Northern Cape 66%.
Motshekga said the total number of students who wrote was 725,034 and of those, 607,226 were full-time candidates.
He added that 76.7% of boys passed the 2020 NSC exams compared to 75.8% of girls.
However, more girls than boys achieved bachelor and diploma passes, as well as passes with honors, Motshekga said.
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“These distinctions include passes with distinction in critical subjects such as accounting, business studies, economics, mathematics and physical science.”
He added that the number of students who qualified for admission to undergraduate studies was 210,820, representing an improvement of 13.3 percentage points over the previous year.
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Motshekga said that Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal accounted for nearly half of graduates in the country.
The number of students who passed with a diploma was 150,600, an increase of 4.1 percentage points from 2019, he added.
The number of students who passed with higher certificates was 79,117, which represents an improvement of 0.2 percentage points compared to 2019.
Meanwhile, the number of students in that group, who passed with an NSC, was 61.
She added:
The high quality passes that we have achieved this year, especially the number of Bachelor and Diploma passes, the general passing grade and the passes with distinctions, even in critical subjects, are the hallmarks of the performance of the 2020 Class.
“We are strongly of the opinion that, had it not been for the new Covid-19 pandemic, the Class of 2020 could have performed the best, since the start of the Senior National Certificate.
“Indeed, we are proud of the Class of 2020, which has persevered in the face of such monumental challenges that our system has never been exposed to in the past.”
