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The examination system was fully tested on Tuesday, 23 November 2017 when more than 630 000 candidates sat to write English Paper 1 at Home Language and First Additional Language levels. Students from surrounding Pietermaritzburg schools went all out to wish their fellow matriculants well and received a magnitude of support and encouragement from their families and friends. “Let's do this Class of 2017! Our teachers have prepared us well, I feel ready to write. After 12 years of schooling, we have finally come to our final lap,” said Kelly_Robyn. “Have your eyes on the prize, be wary of things meant to distract you and lead you astray. Look out for your best interests. #Matric2017,” wrote @Angela_Kondile. Local English teacher of Heather Secondary School, Michelle Chengan, also took to social media platforms to wish matriculants - “Best wishes to the students of Heather Secondary School and to every other matriculant writing their Final National Senior Certificate Examination. May your hard work and dedication bring you one step closer to your destiny, God Bless.” “For the NSC alone, the 2017 examination will be written by 83 968 full-time and 21 789 part-time candidates. A total of 634 527 full-time and 168 109 part-time candidates have been registered. KwaZulu-Natal has once again presented the highest number of full-time candidates with 153 624 candidates. Mathematics Literacy with 356 016, Life Sciences with 356 149, Mathematics with 279 144 and Physical Sciences with 199 874 candidates present some of the highest enrolment subjects for 2017. Examinations have been taking place across more than 1 000 examination centres. After the first few papers their has been an array of thoughts and feelings amongst the class of 2017, here is what they have to say:
“This year has gone by a lot faster than expected and
no matter how much of preparations you do, you will always be nervous and scared. Our teachers have put in a lot of effort with us with regards to extra lessons after school and over weekends. They’ve aided us with past year Trial and Final Examination papers from all around South Africa to give us a better understanding of how questions will be posed and the amount of work that goes into answering these papers,” said Kiara Ranjith Heather Secondary School. “I have only completed 3 papers so far, English Paper 1, Accounting and Mathematics Paper 1 and others have completed 4 papers which includes Information Technology and from my experience, our Trial exams did prep us for papers like Accounting and Math Paper 1 which I wrote last week. However out of all 3, I still feel that English was the most challenging yet! At the end of it all, I know that
everyone, including myself is trying their best and my hope for us all is to be proud of one another because we know that we have worked to the best of our abilities,” she said.
“This Exam has been very challenging so far and I
hope for me and students across the country, that we raise the bar a little higher and achieve excellent results.” - Mishka Naidoo - Raisethorpe Secondary School.
not lose focus now, as the goal posts is getting closer!” we require as the country. We have faith tha the Class Chairperson for the select committee on education of 2017 will acquire a pass rate higher than 70%. and recreation, Lungelwa Zwane, cautioned pupils on the folly of copying. "We urge learners to be vigilant and to desist from any temptation to cheat the system From the team at Black Inc Media, in one way or another, because the we wish the Class of 2017 everything of the repercussions can be devastating to their futures. best in their Final Examinations. Dont stop Learners are also urged to report any cases if they believeing that you are capable of great things! arise," she said.
Meanwhile, ANC Youth League spokesperson Mlondi Mkhize challenged matriculants to improve on last prepared for our Final Accounting paper. It is by far one year’s results. "We hope that these matriculants will be of my most challenging and enjoyable subjects but able to reach 90% to 100% pass rate. We hope to see after last week’s paper I am confident to receive good an increase in the pass rate of mathematics, physics, results. Our Trial Examination was much more accounting and other subjects of low pass rate, challenging than this paper. I look forward to the rest of particularly those subjects that deal critical skills which my exams and wish other students the best of luck!” - Subisiswe Mnyaka - Russell High School.
“After our Trial Examinations I believe we were well
“Although I thoroughly prepared for my final exams I still feel you could never be too prepared. When you are in that exam room you have to be level headed and compose yourself and your emotions. We only have ‘that’ time and we have to ensure that we do everything we can for the best results… However, our Trial examinations were a good prep for our finals and with 10 other papers left, I hope that I can maintain my confidence for the duration of my exams.” - Dillon Matthews - Maritzburg College. “I am confident that I will produce good results and my advice to everyone writing their final exams is to keep studying, work hard and do not procrastinate!” - Jeremy Werner - Eastwood Secondary School. The department has done everything possible to ensure that learners had been given the best possible chance to do well in the exams. Grade 12 learners were flooded with extra and supplementary hybrid material to top up the conventional textbooks. This was done to ensure that all learners are ready for their final examinations. Examinations will end on November 28, with Agricultural Management Practices scheduled as the final paper. Marking will begin on December 1 and end on December 15, at 17 identified centres. Candidates will be able to access their results from Friday 5 January 2018 through the DBE website and through the various media outlets through which the results will be made available.
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