Matric 2024 exam results, Umalusi release Matric 2024 exam results, South Africa’s national education quality assurance body, Umalusi, has approved the release of the November 2024 National Senior Certificate (NSC) examinations.
During a media briefing on Monday (13 January), the association’s chairperson, Yunus Ballim, said that the results had been given the green light after being administered by the Department of Basic Education and the Independent Examinations Board.
Matric 2024 exam results
A total of 1,060,852 candidates participated in the 2024 end of year examinations. Of that number, the NSC accounts for 832,993 candidates or 78.5% distributed across the DBE, IEB and SACAI.
The remaining 227,859 or 21.5% candidates are distributed across three qualifications:
- 138,000 wrote the NC(V) L2-L4 examinations,
- 49,421 wrote the N2-N3 examinations, and
- 40,438 wrote the GETC: ABET examinations.
Matric Results 2024: Pass Rate Per Province & Rankings
The body said that, having studied all the evidence presented, the Executive Committee of Umalusi Council concluded that the examinations were administered largely in accordance with the Regulations Pertaining to the Conduct, Administration, and Management of the National Senior Certificate Examinations.
“There were no systemic irregularities reported that might have compromised the overall credibility and integrity of the November 2024 National Senior Certificate (NSC) examinations administered by the Department of Basic Education (DBE),” it said.
While signing off on the matric results for 2024, Umalusi did note several worrying trends and practices that emerged during the latest round of testing.
This includes things like the “persistent phenomenon” of some schools disallowing candidates from writing the exams in an attempt to improve results.
“This is unlawful, and Umalusi advises the affected learners and parents or guardians to report such incidents to the relevant authorities,” it said.
There were also issues with unregistered candidates, where an independent school allowed 30 candidates who did not pass Grade 11 to register for the Grade 12 examinations.
“This is highly irregular. Whereas this is only one case, it is one too many. Umalusi is satisfied with the action taken to withdraw the registration status of the school concerned,” it said.
The group also flagged some examination malpractices:
407 NSC cases of copying were reported in 2024.
While this was down from over 900 in 2023, KwaZulu-Natal and Mpumalanga are once again at the top of the list with 195 and 74 implicated candidates, respectively.
There has also been an increase in applications for marking concessions. Umalusi received marking concessions in 19 subjects compared to 17 in 2023.
A marking concession is an instance where an assessment body makes a request to Umalusi to have certain questions found to be ‘problematic’ during the marking process to be excluded either entirely or partly and upscaling the total marks achieved using conversion tables.
“What is problematic about this practice is that it has the likelihood of negatively affecting the overall standard of the question papers concerned,” the group said.
How to get your Matric 2024 exam results
The ministerial announcement on the NSC exam results will be made by DBE Minister Siviwe Gwarube on Monday (13 January), with the general result release set for the next day (Tuesday, 14 January).
Learners can access their results (or register to receive them) in the following ways:
- Learners can get their results directly from the schools or institutions where they took the exams. These results may only be accessible after 12:00 PM on the release day.
- Learners can also access their results directly by logging onto the Department of Basic Education’s website here. Before receiving confirmation of their registration, candidates will need to complete a two-step verification process. They must provide their 13-digit ID number and Exam Number to register. The DBE website can be accessed without data charges, meaning it can be accessed regardless of whether the user has data or not.
- A number of online news websites will publish the results – including News24’s Matric Results page.
- Text your 13-digit ID number and your exam number to 35658. Charges will apply – R1.50 per SMS.
- Alternatively, dial the USSD code *120*35658#. You will then receive further instructions to gain access to the results on January 14.
- Download the MatricsMate App for free from Google Play and Apple App Stores.
- Most of South Africa’s major daily newspapers will publish the matric results once they are available.