Marking of matric papers to start today

Lusanda Bill
30 November 2014

Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga this week said the 2014 National Senior Certificate examination were successful. 

In a statement Motshekga said she is satisfied that the examinations were conducted with integrity and without serious problems despite the threats of protests in some parts of the country. 

Marking will commence today with 41 000 markers involved in the marking of the scripts of 118 marking venues across the country. 

The Departments Elijah Mhlanga said after the marking the marks will then be captured on the system from all provinces and then sent to the Department of Basic Education in Pretoria, where the information will be processed and then the marks will be sent to Umalusi.

Mhlanga will then do the quality assurance and once that is done then the department will do the standardisation process which will be completed by the 23^rd of December, after which we will then finalise the results for printing.

“The minister will then announce the results on the 5^th of January and the results will only be available at schools on the 6^th of January” Mhlanga added.