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Original Post Date: 2004-01-16 Posted By: Jan
From the News Archives of: WWW.AfricanCrisis.Org
Date & Time Posted: 1/16/2004 5:30:25 AM
S.Africa: School pass rates “adjusted”
[Note. Do you remember a few weeks back the ruckus over the Matric pass rates? Then the ANC denied, denied and denied. They said: No, the figures were cast in stone and nobody massages figures? Well, read this little item which slipped through the cracks. Jan]
Pretoria – Education officials in Limpopo want to adjust all grade 10 marks for 2003 to ensure that more pupils pass.
In a letter to schools in areas such as Phalaborwa, Tzaneen, Thabzimbi and Modimolle (Nylstroom), principals were asked to adjust pupils’ marks in all subjects.
The letter provided a formula to be used to adjust the marks. In some cases, the formula led to increases of 13%.
Marks higher than 75% were not adjusted, however.
The grade 10 exam was shrouded in controversy at the end of last year when principals admitted that hundreds of pupils had failed countrywide.
Outcomes based education (OBE) was cited as being the main reason.
Principals said the pupils did not know how to study and could not cope with subject content.
‘Aggressive adjustment will be questioned’
In the Limpopo letter, poor results were blamed on poor papers, little or no communication between grade 9 and 10 teachers or the transition from OBE to subject-content teaching.
Prem Govender, exams spokesperson in Gauteng, said his department was still conducting a survey on the number of grade 10s who failed. “We do not believe there is a crisis.”
Duncan Hindle, deputy director-general of the national education department, said that although normalisation and standardisation of marks took place at all levels of school, Limpopo’s aggressive upward adjustment of marks would be questioned.
Source: NEWS24.COM
URL: http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/New…br>