Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga has announced the matric pass rate for the class of 2018 – 78.2%.
The “real” matric pass rate is much lower, however, when you take the total cohort of students who started school and would eventually become the matric class of 2018.
Looking at the number of learners enrolled in Grade 1 in 2007 – the group which would reach matric in 2018 – the total was 1,002,500.
With 512,700 full-time learners writing matric in 2018, and then 78.2% of these students passing, the “real” matric pass rates comes in at 40%.
Students dropping out
This sentiment was echoed by DA Shadow Minister of Basic Education Nomsa Marchesi.
Marchesi said that Motshekga has again failed to address “the large number of learners who don’t write matric in the first place”.
“Nearly half the learners who enrolled in Grade 1 in 2007 didn’t write the full-time matric exams in 2018 as they we
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