SA Matric Exams

The results have been announced for the 2020 Independent Examinations Board (IEB) matric exams. >> Click here to check your IEB matric results How it works: Simply enter your exam number in the box at the top of the page and you'll get an instant reply showing whether you passed and any distinctions you received. The 2020 IEB pass rate is 98.07%, slightly down from 98.82% last year. Of those candidates who passed, 88.42% (89.51% in 2019) achieved entry to degree study; 8.14% (7.91% in 2019) qualified for entry to diploma study; and 1.51% (1.4% in 2019) achieved entry for study at the higher certificate level. A total of 12,042 full-time and 1,139 part-time candidates from 233 examination centres across Southern Africa wrote the IEB exams in October and November 2020 – an increase from 2019, when there were 11,818 full-time and 779 part-time candidates. The closing date to apply for remarking is March 3 and the results from remarking will be released on Marc...

The Department of Basic Education (DBE) has published the matric results for the 2019 cohort with the group achieving a pass rate of 81.3%. A total of 787,717 candidates entered for the November 2019 NSC examination. This number was made up of 616,754 full time and 170,963 part-time candidates. A total of 790,405 candidates sat for 147 question papers in 7,416 examination centres nationwide. A further 212 learners wrote at correctional facilities. “We’ve got a very big system. We have more than 12 million learners in more than 26,000 schools. What is gratifying is that South African parents, rich and poor, continue to have confidence in the public school system because of your performance,” said basic education minister, Angie Motshekga. This was the sixth cohort of candidates to write the NSC examination that is aligned to the national Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS), a curriculum which is benchmarked against international standards. Motshekga sai...