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Cape Recief high school scooped award for Premier’s Top Achiever for best Performing Special Needs School in Nelson Mandela district #MatricResults2023@HeraldNMB
Soqhayisa Senior Secondary School as scooped first and second place in the Premier Top Achiever Awards for Best Performing School in the Nelson Mandela Bay Educational District #MatricResults2023@HeraldNMB
Premier of the Eastern Cape is Oscar Mabuyane has begun his keynote address ahead of the awarding of trophies to top achievers in the province #MatricResults2023@HeraldNMB
Intervention programmes included extra tuition classes (morning, afternoon, weekend and vacation classes), streaming of virtual lessons, provision of additional Learner Support Material, additional assessment activities #MatricResults2023@HeraldNMB
Curriculum interventions were done in 3 phases of “push and hold” activities. First Push: Identify and remedy (during Term 1), Second Push: Cover all basics (during term 2) and Last Push: Consolidate and practice (during term 3 and term 4) #MatricResults2023@HeraldNMB e
2023 has been marked by improved quality and good standard of School Based Assessment submitted to Umalusi for resulting. “This means the persistent emphasis on formative SBA over the past few years has paid off handsomely in 2023” - Gade #MatricResults2023@HeraldNMB e
Top 5 performing District - Alfred Nzo East at 85,1%, with 8.1% improvement to Alfred Nzo West at 84,2%, up 1.5% Chris Hani East at 84,1% up 4,5% Joe Gqabi at 83,9% up 12.2% Nelson Mandela at 83,1% up 2,7% #MatricResults2023@HeraldNMB
District performance took a new turn in 2023, with 8 Districts performing above 80%, with the remaining 4 performing between 76% and 79%. Five more Districts, compared to 2022, joined the 80% benchmark #MatricResults2023@HeraldNMB e
The bulk of schools with improved performance are in Quintiles 1-3. This means Quintiles 1-3 schools constitute 76% of schools obtaining a pass mark of 70% to 100% #MatricResults2023@HeraldNMB
Bachelor passes increased by 2.8 % from 36.8% in 2022 to 39.6% in 2023. Over the term from 2019 to 2023, the Eastern Cape has produced 146 561 Bachelor passes and 108 442 Diploma passes #MatricResults2023@HeraldNMB