{"id":148225,"date":"2017-01-03T19:00:08","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T17:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=148225"},"modified":"2017-01-03T15:32:36","modified_gmt":"2017-01-03T13:32:36","slug":"where-to-get-your-2016-matric-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/148225\/where-to-get-your-2016-matric-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Where to get your 2016 Matric results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The department of basic education will be releasing the class of 2016 National Senior Certificate matric results on 5 January 2017, and has made several avenues open for learners to gain access to them.<\/p>\n<p>The department said that marking is well underway and that it is on schedule to meet the targeted date.<\/p>\n<p>Learners can access their results (or register to receive them) in the following ways:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/matric.ewn.co.za\/\">EWN has a Matric Results page<\/a><\/strong>, which will remind you when the results are released and will also provide them on the day.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Other news outlets have similar results pages available, including <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/matricresults.news24.com\/\">News24&#8217;s Matric Results page<\/a><\/strong>, which offers learners a chance to win R5000.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.education.gov.za\/Home.aspx\">The Department of Basic Education<\/a><\/strong> will live-stream the education minister&#8217;s announcement of the matric results on the 4th of January, and will also make the results available on the 5th.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Learners can also sign up to the SABC&#8217;s SMS service:\u00a0<strong>SMS the learner&#8217;s\u00a0ID and Student number to 35658 or dial *120*35658# to register<\/strong>. The SMS will tell learners if they have passed or not, while the USSD system (*120*35658#) will deliver the more detailed results.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>For learners who do not have access to the Internet or a cellphone, the results will also be available in the morning papers, as well as from the schools or learning facilities at which the exams were written.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In \u00a0the 2015 matric results, South African grade 12 learners managed an overall pass rate of 70.7%, which was down from 2014&#8217;s pass rate of 75.8%.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a title=\"Permalink to Matric pass rate drops to 70.7%\" href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/108149\/matric-pass-rate-drops-to-70-7\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Matric pass rate drops to 70.7%<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The department of basic education will be releasing the class of 2016 National Senior Certificate matric results on 5 January 2017, and has made several avenues open for learners to gain access to them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":108223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-148225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148225","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148227,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148225\/revisions\/148227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}