Basic Education Director-General, Mr Mathanzima Mweli, this week, visited Marking Centres in the Limpopo and Gauteng Provinces to monitor the marking process. “The DBE is currently engaged in standardisation meetings with chief markers and internal moderators of provinces in preparation for the National Senior Certificate (NSC) examination marking process, scheduled to take place from 1 to 12 December 2024. Over 55,053 markers have been appointed across all nine provinces and received training at 188 marking centres. The results of the NSC examinations will be announced by the Minister of Basic Education, Ms Siviwe Gwarube, on 13 January 2025,” explained Ms Priscilla Ogunbanjo, Director for Public Examinations.

Basic Education Director-General, Mr Mathanzima Mweli, concluded his Last Push Learner Support Programme across all 75 districts ahead of the commencement of the NSC examinations on 21 October 2024. In addition, he also concluded his annual online engagement meetings with departmental, provincial and district officials during October to ensure the state of readiness of provinces to host the NSC examinations, and for provinces to be prepared for the 2025 academic year.

The engagements identified gaps to challenges as part of the Last Push and Learner Support Programme. The focus of the online engagements were on: Tracking Learner Performance in Terms 1, 2 and 3 across all grades; Internal and External Examinations and Assessment Readiness; ECD; Language and Literacy; Focus Schools and Schools of Specialisation; and the State of Readiness for the 2025 academic year.