{"id":292044,"date":"2019-01-03T07:16:52","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T05:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=292044"},"modified":"2019-01-03T07:16:52","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T05:16:52","slug":"ieb-matrics-achieve-98-92-pass-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/lifestyle\/292044\/ieb-matrics-achieve-98-92-pass-rate\/","title":{"rendered":"IEB matrics achieve 98.92% pass rate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Independent Education Board (IEB) has published the matric results for the class of 2018, showing that they achieved a pass rate of 98.92%.<\/p>\n<p>The results went live at midnight.<\/p>\n<p>12,372 students sat the IEB exams, up from the 12,130 that wrote in 2017. Of the 2018 group, 90.65% achieved bachelors entry, with a further 7.33% getting diploma entry.<\/p>\n<p>0.95% achieved entry for study at a higher certificate level.<\/p>\n<p>Matrics who wrote the National Senior Certificate exams will get their results on Friday morning (4 January).<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to get your results<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Learners can access their results (or register to receive them) in the following ways:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Learners can access their results directly by logging onto the\u00a0Department of Basic Education\u2019s website<strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.education.gov.za\/MatricResults\/ExamResults\/tabid\/175\/Default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here.<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>Alternatively, students who took the IEB examinations can access their results from the IEB website\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ieb-online.co.za\/asp\/login.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A number of online\u00a0news websites will publish the results \u2013 including\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/matricresults.news24.com\/\">News24\u2019s Matric Results page<\/a>.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Learners who do not have internet access will be able to obtain their results from a number of South Africa\u2019s daily newspapers, however, you will not be able to see individual subject results.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Learners may obtain their results directly\u00a0from the schools or learning facilities at which the exams were written.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The SABC in conjunction with the Department of Education will allow learners to obtain results on their phones in a number of ways.\n<ul>\n<li>Learners can download the MatricsMate app directly from their phone\u2019s app store.<\/li>\n<li>Alternatively,\u00a0learners can sign up to the SABC\u2019s SMS service:\u00a0<strong>SMS the learner\u2019s\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<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>You can also contact the Department of Education directly by\u00a0<strong>dialling\u00a0082 152<\/strong>\u00a0to receive your matric results.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/291888\/where-to-get-your-2018-matric-results\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Where to get your 2018 matric results<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Independent Education Board (IEB) has published the matric results for the class of 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":258263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9876],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-292044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292044","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=292044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":292046,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292044\/revisions\/292046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}