IEB matric result pass rate increase

[James]

The Independent Examinations Board's (IEB) matric result pass rate for 2013 increased to 98.6 percent this year from last year's 98.2 percent.

"[A total of] 9580 full-time and 586 part-time candidates from 185 schools across the country wrote the... IEB National Senior Certificate examinations in November 2013," IEB CEO Anne Oberholzer said in a statement on Tuesday.

"All candidates that passed achieved a pass that is good enough to enter tertiary study at...read more here: IEB matric result pass rate increase

 

[Necuno]

Praise the ANC !

* slow clap *


However the small print reads: How many that entered st6 finished st10.

 

[Mister 44]

IEB exams are one thing, let's see what happens when the big one gets published.

Somebody (don't recall who) here on MyG said something to the affect that our youth values it more finding their name on a can of coke than in the newspaper come results time.

 

[Necuno]

IEB exams are one thing, let's see what happens when the big one gets published.

Somebody (don't recall who) here on MyG said something to the affect that our youth values it more finding their name on a can of coke than in the newspaper come results time.

What I was referring to

 

[AlphaJohn]

Does not help much when you have all this people "leaving" high school, yet the majority of them can not even pass entry level exams for Uni.

Ie: lowering standards is not a solution.

 

[Tank]

Does not help much when you have all this people "leaving" high school, yet the majority of them can not even pass entry level exams for Uni.

Ie: lowering standards is not a solution.

was about to say, how many of these will be competent students

I cry

 

[Mister 44]

Does not help much when you have all this people "leaving" high school, yet the majority of them can not even pass entry level exams for Uni.

Ie: lowering standards is not a solution.

How's this for bad: in the company I work for, one of the prerequisites of getting a programming job is passing a test of your logic skills. This goes for anybody, regardless of your qualifications. About 90% of IT university graduates (BTech, BCom and BSc) that apply for a job here fail this test. They have a qualification (in one case a masters) but most of the graduates can't apply nested if-else statements in a real world scenario.

 

[Ike_009]

Does not help much when you have all this people "leaving" high school, yet the majority of them can not even pass entry level exams for Uni.

Ie: lowering standards is not a solution.

The IEB is an independent set of test and the best private schools in SA subscribe to them. They also don't lower their standards to raise a false pass rate, I also remember doing a set of government papers and thinking they are piss compared to our exams.

I also remember seeing somewhere that IEB students take up 5% of university entrants to Tuks but like 50% of passes for undergrad are from IEB students.

 

[Ser_Bunnylot]

How's this for bad: in the company I work for, one of the prerequisites of getting a programming job is passing a test of your logic skills. This goes for anybody, regardless of your qualifications. About 90% of IT university graduates (BTech, BCom and BSc) that apply for a job here fail this test. They have a qualification (in one case a masters) but most of the graduates can't apply nested if-else statements in a real world scenario.

Are you referring to the FizzBuzz test per chance?