This is according to the department’s head of assessments, Rufus Poliah, who briefed parliament on Tuesday on its exam system readiness.This is because they are combined exams that will also cater for candidates who were meant to sit for the May/June exams, which were cancelled after the country went into lockdown because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Five different cohorts will write the exams, including 616,021 full-time candidates who are at school. A total of 616,754 full-time candidates sat for last year’s exams.“There was concern that we are going to have a massive dropout rate in the 2020 exams. The drop by 733 means there has not been a significant dropout rate in terms of grade 12 pupils writing the exams.”
He said they will conduct an investigation to determine why Limpopo’s full-time pupils dropped by 14,050 from 93,932 last year to 79,882.Poliah said as pupils would be writing exams under difficult conditions this year, the department “is going the extra mile to make sure we administer the exams in fair and conducive conditions”.
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