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  • 2021-01-27 (xsd:date)
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  • No, grade 12 students in South Africa won’t have 5% added to marks (en)
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  • A message posted on Facebook in January 2021 claims that grade 12 students in South Africa will have an extra 5% added to their final marks. If you got a 35% in your English, you get 5% boosting you to 40% ... and that'll be done in all your seven subjects, it reads. This is according to a very reliable source. The post has been viewed more than 50,000 times so far. Students in their final year of high school who wrote the national school-leaving exams in November and December 2020 are still waiting for their results. This delay is due to disruptions to the 2020 academic year because of the Covid-19 pandemic . But are extra marks being added to these results? Extra 5% for grades 4 to 9 only In November 2020, the South African department of basic education did say it would give learners up to 5% extra if this would help them pass the 2020 academic year. But this was only for students in grades 4 to 9, and the extra 5% could only be added to the marks of three subjects. The decision received mixed reactions from education experts. But there is no evidence that an extra 5% will be awarded across all subjects to grade 12 students. If the claim were true, it would have been covered widely in the media. It hasn’t been. (en)
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