The Department of Basic Education has
announced that as from this year schools will adjust their exams scores for
pupils in Grade 7,8 and 9.
The department's Elijah Mhlanga said this
will improve the quality of education in the public schooling system. This means that pupils now have to pass
eight out of nine subjects before pupils had to pass only seven. The adjustment also means that pupils have
to get a 50% for their home language.
Mhlanga said we felt that the best way to do it was to
start at the lower grade not at the senior phase to ensure that those learners
in grade 7, 8and 9 adjust to the new requirements before they get to Grade 10,
11 and even matric.
"In order to prepare them, for a
better performance, you need to start when they are still young and still in
the lower grade, by the time they get to grade 12 they would have already
adjusted to the new requirement.” Mhlanga added.
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