Matric pass rate 2023 south Africa, South Africa’s official matric pass rate is 82.9%. Matric Results 2023/2024. Basic education minister Angie Motshekga announced the results on Thursday, 18 January 2024.
Matric Results 2023/2024
The 2023 National Senior Certificate examinations concluded on 6 December 2023 and the Minister of Basic Education, Mrs Angie Motshekga, announced the outcome of the examinations on 18 January 2024. Results will be released to candidates on 19 January 2024. Some results may not be available because of technical issues.
- Candidates are urged to get their statements of results from their school/centre where they wrote the exams. Candidates’ results will also be available on this website from 6am on 19 January 2024.
- Result queries should be submitted for investigation within 30 days after the release of results.
- Candidates must ensure that names and identity numbers reflect correctly on their statement of results and report any required corrections to the Department before 21 February 2024.
Matric pass rate 2023 south Africa
Quality assurance body Umalusi reported earlier this week that 919,532 students wrote the 2023 National Senior Certificate exams this year.
Of these, 898,520 were registered public schools falling under the Department of Basic Education. Around 79.8% (717,377) candidates were full-time. The class of 2023 is one of the matric groups that were impacted by the Covid–19 pandemic, starting their grade 10 year in 2021.
Although South Africa’s most stringent lockdown measures were lifted by the end of 2021, it only exited its state of disaster in March 2022. Umalusi reported this week that some irregularities were detected during writing and marking, but these were not systemic and did not compromise the overall credibility and integrity of the exams.
Where irregularities were found, Umalusi instructed the Department of Basic Education (DBE) to block the results of those candidates pending an investigation.
Matric results 2023 pass rate per province
Matric results 2023 pass rate per province, Motshekga announced the matric pass rates for South Africa’s nine provinces as follows:
- Free State — 89.0%
- KZN — 86.4%
- Gauteng — 85.4%
- North West — 81.6%
- Western Cape — 81.5%
- Eastern Cape — 81.4%
- Limpopo — 79.5%
- Mpumalanga — 77.0%
- Northern Cape — 75.8%
IEB Matric Results 2023
The Independent Examinations Board (IEB) has announced the results of its matric class 2023, achieving a pass rate slightly higher than 2022.
In a media statement on Thursday (18 January), the IEB revealed an overall pass rate of 98.46% in the 2023 National Senior Certificate (NSC) examinations – a slight uptick from the 98.4 recorded in 2022.
All the candidates who passed the IEB 2023 NSC examinations achieved a pass that grants them access to tertiary study at one of three levels:
- 88.59% of the matric class of 2023 achieved a degree pass – compared to 89.32% in 2022;
- 8.31% achieved a diploma pass – compared to 7.52% in 2022; and
- 1.57% achieved a higher certificate pass – the same level recorded in 2022.
- 15,186 learners wrote the IEB exams in October and November.
“This is more than the 12,580 full-time and 945 part-time candidates – a total of 13,525 – in 2022. “The significant increase of 1,655 results from the 17 new schools, comprising a total of 960 candidates, that wrote the IEB for the first time in 2023,“ said the IEB.
The 2023 IEB NSC examinations were quality-assured by Umalusi – the quality and assurance body – following the moderation of question papers and the writing of the examinations, verification of the marking, and standardisation of marks.