Promoted pupils had no big effect on matric rates
17 January 2016 - 02:00
The dip in South Africa's matric pass rate was clearly caused by extra "promoted" pupils and would have been even more significant had it not been for manipulation of the marks. So says Dr Nic Spaull in "Matric cracks starting to show" (January 10), as he posits that the "promotion policy has inadvertently caused a huge crack in the matric standardisation process".
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