Tuesday, January 16, 2024 – Cases of cheating during matric exams are most common at independent schools, the Department of Basic Education has revealed.
The 2023
National Senior Certificate (NSC) exams recorded a total of 945 cases of
cheating from Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal.
Minister of
Basic Education Angie Motshekga said scandals of this nature tampered with the
credibility of matric exams.
Motshekga said
the Department is closely monitoring the continued cases of cheating during
matric exams in the country.
She said while
these cases rarely came from its schools, any wrongdoing was left with the
department since the independent schools write their exams.
"Normally,
your independent schools whose fortunes rely on being able to boast about good
results, so they get desperate."
Over 900,000
candidates who wrote their exams between October and December 2023 are waiting
to receive their results this week.
Motshekga will
release the national pass rate on Thursday before the final results are
released on Friday.
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