{"id":364756,"date":"2020-01-07T20:19:58","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T18:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=364756"},"modified":"2020-01-07T20:20:45","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T18:20:45","slug":"matric-2019-real-pass-rate-is-38-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/364756\/matric-2019-real-pass-rate-is-38-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Matric 2019: Real pass rate is 38.9%"},"content":{"rendered":"

Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga on Wednesday evening announced the matric pass rate for the class of 2019 – 81.3%.<\/p>\n

However, Nomsa Marchesi, Democratic Alliance shadow minister of basic education said that the \u201creal\u201d matric pass rate, is much lower, at only 38.9%.<\/p>\n

In 2017, a total of 1 052 080 learners were enrolled in grade 10, yet only 409 906 learners eventually passed matric last year. This means only 38.9% of grade 10 learners actually wrote and passed matric, the shadow minister said.<\/p>\n

“This is for the most part due to an extraordinarily high drop-out rate, which means that hundreds of thousands of learners are denied the chance to write matric, let alone pass it.<\/p>\n

“This is an indication of a dismally failing system, not a functional and successful one,” Marchesi said.<\/p>\n

The education lead said that the DA-led Western Cape is the province with the lowest drop-out rate (33.4%) and therefore the highest real pass rate, standing at 54.8%.<\/p>\n

Real pass rates of each province<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The DA said that the real national pass rate for 2018 was 37.6%. The real pass rate of 2019 is, therefore, an improvement of a mere 1.3%, Marchesi said.<\/p>\n

“For years now the DBE punts the national pass rate because it shifts the focus from their perpetual failures as an ANC government.<\/p>\n

“The slow poison of drop-out rates between grades 10 and 12 is eating away at the future of the youth of this country.<\/p>\n

“Since 2015, which saw the highest number of pupils who sat to write their matric exam, there has been a steady decline each year. This should be a real and urgent concern for the DBE,” the education lead said.<\/p>\n

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Read: Here are South Africa\u2019s matric results for 2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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