Despite the Class of 2021’s challenges, the overall pass rate for the National Senior Certificate (NSC) for the year is 76.4%.
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This represents a 0.2% increase over the Class of 2020’s pass rate of 76.2%.
Angie Motshekga, Basic Education Minister, announced the results of the NSC examinations in Auckland Park on Thursday evening, 20 January 2022, saying this represents a record of 537 687 candidates who passed the 2021 NSC examinations – a 21.9% increase from 2020.
A total of 897 163 candidates sat for the 2021 NSC examination, a 23.6% increase from the previous year.
Motshekga noted that the number of Bachelor passes obtained in 2021 is the highest in the history of the NSC examinations; however, when expressed as a percentage, it is second only to that obtained in 2019.
“The number of candidates qualifying for admission to Bachelor studies at universities, is 256 031 – an improvement of 21.4% from 2020. This represents 36.4% of the total number of candidates who wrote the 2021 NSC exams,” the Minister said.
The number of candidates who passed with a diploma is only 177 572, representing 25.2% — an improvement of 17.8% from 2020.
Meanwhile, the number of candidates who passed with Higher Certificates stands at 103 859, representing 14.9% of the total number of candidates who wrote the 2021 NSC combined exams.
Two hundred eleven thousand seven hundred twenty-five distinctions were earned, representing a 19.3% increase over 2020.
“We must state that KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng contributed the most Bachelor passes in the combined Bachelor passes of 117 704, which is equivalent to 46.0% of the overall Bachelor passes nationally. “It is important to note that a total of 433 603 candidates – equivalent to 61.6% who achieved Bachelor and Diploma passes, are now eligible for studies at Higher Education Institutions. The 103 859 candidates – equivalent to 14.7% – who obtained Higher Certificate passes, may register at TVET and other skills training institutions,” the Minister said.
Overall Provincial Performance is as follows:
- Free State was the best performing province with an 85,7% pass rate.
- Gauteng came in second with 82,8%.
- Western Cape was third with 81,2%.
- North West achieved fourth place with 78,2%.
- KwaZulu-Natal was fifth with 76,8%0.
- Mpumalanga was sixth at 73,6% – a decline of 0,1% from 2020.
- The Eastern Cape took seventh place with 73,0%.
- The Northern Cape finished at eighth place with 71,4%.
- Limpopo finished ninth with 66,7%.
The 2021 National Senior Certificate School Performance Report reflects the following pass rates for local high schools:
We list only a few examples. Click here to view the total pass rate percentage for local high schools.
Newcastle:
- Amajuba High School: 94.6%
- Ferrum High School: 96.8%
- Islamic College Newcastle: 100%
- Lincoln Heights Secondary: 85.5%
- Hope High School: 97.6%
- St Oswalds: 94.9%
- Newcastle High School: 96.4%
Madadeni:
- Amadada High School: 73%
- Amazulu High School: 70.2%
- Bethamoya High School: 87.3%
Osizweni:
- Osizweni High School: 74.2%
- Xolani High School: 62.5%
Dannhauser:
- Dannhauser Secondary: 97.8%
Utrecht:
- Emalahleni Combined School: 80.3%
- Utrecht High: 94.1%
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Hi Bheki. If you read the article completely, you would have noted it states “We list only a few examples. Click here to view the total pass rate percentage for local high schools“. Please read the full article and click where it states “click here” for a downloadable pdf with all schools.
Some schools might be getting higher matric pass rates by continuously failing their grades 8, 9,10 and 11 and accepting only good new students to replace them so that by the time they get to grade 12, only good students will form their candidature. Obviously those students will all pass with at least a certificate endorsement