EDITORIAL | Let’s hope this latest exam paper leak doesn’t open the floodgates

Education department is in damage control mode and cannot afford another question mark over its credibility

19 November 2020 - 19:52 By sunday times daily

The National Senior Certificate (NSC) exams has experienced its biggest paper leak in recent years and it has major implications — not only for matriculants who need good maths marks to get into university, but also for the overall credibility of the examinations. The basic education department revealed on Wednesday that the leak of the maths paper 2 in the final matric exams was much wider than initially believed. Preliminary investigations showed it had been obtained by pupils in eight provinces with only the Free State not affected...

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