Matric results: Pass mark adjustment worrisome, warns expert

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Education analyst Phaphama Mnqandi said although the mark adjustments were not a new thing, the real worry was whether they reflected assisting pupils because the papers were of a very high standard, or if the pupils were too weak. The department of basic education marks which were adjusted “mainly upwards” were double that of the IEB at 42% while only 6% were adjusted “mainly downwards”.Umalusi spokesperson Dr Lucky Ditaunyane said of the 67 subjects presented for standardisation by the DBE, pupils’ actual mark or raw mark were accepted in 35 subjects.

“Based on some of those factors, we are looking at factors outside the pupils and pupils may fail to answer the questions based on the knowledge they have, so these are issues beyond the pupils’ control, and the paper is deemed to be difficult, then the marks would likely be adjusted upwards,” Ditaunyane said.

“The assessment system has to adjust to this reality in a pragmatic way, otherwise whole cohorts of pupils are marked forever with a failed matric or unable to access higher learning,” he said.“The matric marks still discriminate failures, passes, and distinctions, only this year it is doing it under exceptional circumstances.”

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