Class of 2018: The best just keep getting better

Private school pupils who wrote the National Senior Certificate (NSC) exams that were administered by the Independent Examinations Board (IEB) achieved a 98.92% pass rate last year – up from 98.76% in 2017.

January 03, 2019 at 06:51 am

The Gauteng education department's spokesperson Steve Mabona says community members verbally abused department officials and the principal. (123RF)

Private school pupils who wrote the National Senior Certificate (NSC) exams that were administered by the Independent Examinations Board (IEB) achieved a 98.92% pass rate last year – up from 98.76% in 2017.

Of those who passed, 90.65% achieved a bachelor’s pass qualifying them to study at university – including all 134 matrics at Kearsney College in KwaZulu-Natal.