19 January 2022
Despite completing their final year of high school amid the Covid-19 pandemic, the class of 2021’s National Senior Certificate (NSC) pass rate was 98.39%.
Nearly all of them (89.2%) achieved entry to degree study at a tertiary level.
According to the Independent Examinations Board (IEB), which released the NSC results on Wednesday, the pass rate for the class of 2021 was slightly better when compared with the previous year’s pass rate of 98.06%.
Of those who passed:
- 7.82% qualified for admission to diploma study, compared to 8.14% in 2020.
- 1.37% achieved admission for study at the higher certificate level, compared to 1.5% in 2020.
The IEB said the matric class of 2021 consisted of 12 857 full-time and 968 part-time candidates from 238 examination centres writing in 267 venues between October and November across southern Africa.
Source News24
