Covid-19 protocols emphasised for Gauteng candidates sitting for May/June exams
PRETORIA, May 26 (ANA) – Gauteng Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi has extended good wishes to all candidates sitting for the 2021 May/June examinations in South Africa’s most populous province.
“Today [Wednesday] is the start of the 2021 May/June examinations and I wish all 50,000 candidates who will be writing over the next month-or-so all the best,” Lesufi said.
Gauteng department of education said the examinations, which kicked-off on Wednesday with foreign language exams such as French and Mandarin, will end on the afternoon of July 7, with candidates sitting for Paper 2 of Agriculture Sciences.
The education officials said no less than 485 000 question papers have been printed for examinations in 66 subjects.
The breakdown of all the 49 681 candidates sitting for the exams in the province is as follows:
• 31,374 Senior Certificate;
• 16,246 full-time National Senior Certificate (NSC);
• 246 part-time NSC;
• 1,023 NSC;
• and 759 Adult Education and Training (AET) Level 4.
“The majority of candidates – 17,844 – will be writing Maths Literacy, followed by Life Sciences (16,630) and Mathematics (13,802). The marking will take place between July 12 to July 22 at six marking centres across the province,” the Gauteng department of education said.
The provincial authorities say they will also station six Covid-19 compliance team members per marking centre who will have received training on compliance requirements and all standard compliance procedures will be followed at all marking centres.
“The registration for the Senior Certificate 2021 June commenced on October 1, 2020 for manual and online registration and closed on March 15. However, an extension for both manual and online registration was granted till March 31,” the provincial department said.
“For those candidates for the NSC rewrite [supplementary] in 2021 June, registration commenced immediately after the release of results on February23, and closed on March 31. This included candidates who wrote the 2020 November examination.”
A special concession was granted to candidates who had registered to write in 2020 June to rewrite in June 2021.
The Gauteng department of education said it remains committed to ensuring that all the 2021 May/June examinations take place in a safe environment adhering strictly to all Covid-19 protocols; including wearing masks, social distancing and regularly washing/sanitising hands.
– African News Agency (ANA); Editing by Naomi Mackay