By: Zilungile Mkhize
Basic Education Minister Siviwe Gwarube says that the department is fully prepared to administer the 2025 National Senior Certificate examinations and is confident, that all the learners are ready.
Kwazulu-Natal has 179 000, 751 full-time candidates and 16 000, 148 part-time candidates, making a total of 195 000, 899 learners that will sit for their final examinations across various examination centres throughout the province.
The National Senior Certificate (NSC) examinations started this morning with Computer Applications Technology Paper 1 and end on November 27.
Speaking at a media briefing in Mpumalanga on the state of readiness, Gwarube says that the exams remain the largest and most complex public assessment in the education system.
“185 marking centers are being prepared to open between the 26th and the 27th of November. Markers will arrive in a staggered approach and marking will start at exactly on the 2nd of December, at 2 O’clock. The DBE is also continuing with the E-marking pilot of Maths, Maths Literacy and Accounting as part of our broader effort to make sure that we strengthen the accuracy of marking process but also, we are looking at digitalizing the process,” says Gwarube.
