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Introduction
This Assessment Management Minute announces amendments to the National Policy on the Conduct, Administration and Management of the National Senior Certificate, a Qualification at Level 4 on the National Qualifications Framework (NQF), in Government Gazette No. 30048, and to the Regulations pertaining to the Conduct, Administration and Management of Assessment for the National Senior Certificate in Government Gazette No. 31337. These amendments are included in Government Gazette No. 32678 of 03 November 2009. |
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Supplementary Examinations: NSC |
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Supplementary examinations will be granted to full-time, repeat and part-time candidates who have not met the minimum certification requirements, but who require a maximum of two subjects to obtain a National Senior Certificate. |
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Candidates who qualify for supplementary examinations may register for a maximum of two subjects in the supplementary examinations of the following year. These subjects must be subjects that the candidate sat for during the previous end-of-year examinations. This option may be exercised only once by a part-time candidate, i.e. after completion of his or her final end-of-year National Senior Certificate examinations. |
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Marks obtained by candidates for their school-based assessments, practical assessment tasks, practical assessments and oral assessments for their most recently written National Senior Certificate examinations will be valid for a period of two years following the writing of the NSC examinations. |
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Candidates may register for Life Orientation, which is internally assessed, as one of the two subjects to be rewritten in the supplementary examinations. The re-assessment of Life Orientation must be completed within the period in which the supplementary examinations are conducted. |
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Candidates who repeat one or more subjects will be allowed to combine their subjects, based on the current National Senior Certificate requirements, to obtain a National Senior Certificate. In combining these subjects, the overall performance in the seven subjects will be taken into consideration, provided that it meets the requirements of the National Senior Certificate.
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A candidate who did not write or complete the end-of-year examinations for a valid reason has the opportunity to write the supplementary examination for the specific examination question paper that he or she did not write in the end-of-year examinations. However, should the candidate select to write the entire subject, the candidate will be allowed to exercise this option, regardless of whether the candidate has been absent for one or more examination question papers.
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Candidates who have not met the requirements for the school-based assessment and practical assessment task component, may be allowed to improve the marks they obtained in the school-based assessment and practical assessment task component, subject to satisfactory arrangements being made with the relevant school. These tasks should be submitted no later than three months after the publication of the results of the examination concerned. Failure to do so will result in the candidate having to repeat the entire subject and obtain a new SBA mark. |
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Applications for the re-assessment of school-based assessment must be done through the school. The school must submit the completed application forms to the relevant education district office. These forms will then be submitted by the education district office to the Directorate: Examinations Administration. Parents and learners must take full responsibility for submitting outstanding assessment tasks to the school. |
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In a case where an irregularity is being investigated, provisional enrolment for the supplementary examination may be granted to the candidate concerned, pending the outcome of the investigation. |
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Promotion and Certification Requirements: NSC |
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Condonation of a maximum of one subject will be applied if a candidate requires no more than 2% to obtain a subject pass at either 30% or 40%. Such a condonation will be applied in only one subject and only if the condonation will allow the candidate to obtain the National Senior Certificate. This condonation is applicable only to the Grade 12 final examinations. |
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Education district officials and principals are requested to bring the contents of this minute to the attention of their staff, parents and learners. |
SIGNED: BK SCHREUDER
HEAD: EDUCATION
DATE: 2010:08:27
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