{"id":146351,"date":"2016-12-07T16:34:10","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T14:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=146351"},"modified":"2016-12-07T16:34:10","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T14:34:10","slug":"sa-government-lowers-pass-mark-for-maths-to-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/finance\/146351\/sa-government-lowers-pass-mark-for-maths-to-20\/","title":{"rendered":"SA government lowers &#8220;pass mark&#8221; for maths to 20%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cpass mark\u201d for Grades 7 to 9 taking mathematics has been lowered to 20%, according to a report by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capetalk.co.za\/articles\/235476\/maths-pass-mark-to-be-lowered-to-20-for-grades-7-9\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>CapeTalk<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The head of the Western Cape Education Department, Brian Schreuder, confirmed the new requirement in an interview with the radio station.<\/p>\n<p>Schreuder said there were concerns learners were passing other subjects but failing mathematics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen a learner, specifically those in Grades 7 to 9, has failed mathematics it means they can\u2019t be promoted to another level because mathematics is a compulsory pass subject,\u201d stated the report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMathematics is a huge problem in our society. The quality and the number of passes in mathematics is a challenge,\u201d said\u00a0Schreuder.<\/p>\n<p>A directive has been issued for those learners who pass \u201ceverything but fail mathematics\u201d to be considered for the new pass requirement so they can continue to FETs or Grade 10.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA decision was taken that the group of learners who fail mathematics must not have less than 20% minimum pass mark to be given an opportunity to do mathematics literacy,\u201d said Schreuder.<\/p>\n<p>The current pass mark for maths is 40%.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/145121\/government-celebrates-south-africas-dismal-maths-and-science-results\/\" target=\"_blank\">Government celebrates South Africa\u2019s dismal maths and science results<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cpass mark\u201d for Grades 7 to 9 taking mathematics has been lowered to 20%, according to a report by CapeTalk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":63441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11121],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-146351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance","tag-active"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146351"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146361,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146351\/revisions\/146361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}