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Grade 12 learners prepared for the final exams
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Its all systems go according to the first group of anxious and excited matriculants to write their final exams under the new National Curriculum Statement (NCS), writes Gabi Khumalo.Approximately 600 000 students across the country's nine provinces will be sitting for their exams which will take place from 29 October to 3 December 2008.
Under the new curriculum, all exams will be set at a national level, unlike the old curriculum, where learners wrote their exams with the option of Higher or Standard Grade.
This caters for the diverse abilities of candidates and based on their performance, candidates will then be graded on a scale of one to seven.
The results of these exams will be a good measure of the effectiveness of the new curriculum.
The NCS, which replaces the old Senior Certificate, significantly raises the bar in terms of its cognitive demand and caters for 29 subjects.
Some of the subjects include Information Technology, Computer Application, Life Sciences and different languages such as French, Zulu, Hindi and German among others.
Mathematics or Maths Literacy is now a compulsory subject as well as Life Orientation.
Director General in the Department of Education, Duncan Hindle said in preparing the learners for the exams, the annual subject advisor and teacher training programmes, coupled with the development of learning programme guidelines and subject assessment guidelines for Grades 10 to 12, had been key investments in providing a solid foundation for learners.
"The development of examination exemplars for Grades 10, 11 and 12 by the department's examination panel, study mate for Grades 10, 11 and 12 as well as Maths textbooks, which were distributed to schools, communities and placed in newspapers had also contributed to the preparations for the exams," Hindle said.
This year the release of the results will see a change to past procedures, according to the Council of Education Ministers meeting in Pretoria on Monday.
All results will be first checked by school principals before they are released by the school to its own candidates.
Thereafter, on 30 December results will be published in newspapers, and the minister will make an official statement on the overall results, followed by provincial media conferences hosted by MECs to announce the results of their respective provinces. - BuaNews
Article Tags: National Curriculum Statement (NCS)
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