The national pass rate for the 2014 matric exams dropped to 75.8 percent, Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga said on Monday. The past rate in 2013 was 78.2 percent, Motshekga announced in Johannesburg, admitting her disappointment. A total of 550,127 full-time and 138,533 part-time pupils wrote the basic education departments examinations. Gauteng was the top performing province, with a pass rate of 84.7 percent, down from 87 percent in 2013. The worst performing province was the Eastern Cape, which got 65.4 percent, an improvement of 0.5 percentage points in comparison to 2013. The matric pass rates in five of the nine provinces declined in 2014, Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga said while announcing the results in Johannesburg on Monday. KwaZulu-Natal had the steepest decline, from a pass rate of 77.4 percent in 2013 to 69.7 percent in 2014. The top performer, Gauteng, had an 84.7 percent pass rate, 2.3 percentage points lower than the 87 percent in 2013. Motshekga made special mention of Limpopo, which achieved a pass rate of 72.9 percent, up from 71.8 percent in 2013. She said this was despite pupils many challenges, including a delay in receiving textbooks in 2012. The 2014 national matric pass rate was 75.8 percent. This was a 2.4 percentage point drop from 78.2 percent in 2013.
Posted on: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 17:47:31 +0000
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