St Dom’s pupils excel in IEB Matric exams

The 38 pupils of the class of 2013 at St Dominic’s Academy Newcastle, who wrote the Independent Examination Board exams (IEB), once again performed admirably, all passing and thus maintaining a 100 per cent pass rate for the 28th successful year. A record of 37 pupils (97 per cent) obtained university entrance.

Particularly pleasing was that 79 per cent of the IsiZulu First Addition language pupils (11/14), 44 per cent of the Mathematical Literacy pupils (4/9), 23 per cent of the Engineering, Graphics and Design (EGD) pupils (3/13), 21 per cent of the Afrikaans First Additional language pupils (6/24) and 19 per cent of the Mathematics pupils (6/31) obtained distinctions. As one of the IEB pilot schools in South Africa writing the Auto Cad exam (an extra EGD paper) the students also did exceptionally well, nine of the 13 obtaining distinctions.

The subject averages were on a par with the national IEB subject averages with Business Studies (75 per cent), EGD (73 per cent), Geography (73 per cent), IsiZulu (85 per cent) and Mathematical Literacy (77 per cent) all excelling with ‘B’ averages.

Notwithstanding the demanding IEB examinations, most of the class of 2013 have been accepted to tertiary institutions throughout South Africa. Two have been accepted to the Medical Faculty at Stellenbosch and others will be studying architecture, accounting, engineering, geology, physiotherapy, law, teaching and more at Rhodes, Wits, University of Pretoria, KZN, UCT and Varsity College.

Palesa Rakwena is to be congratulated on finishing top of her class with an A aggregate and distinctions for Accounting, IsiZulu and Mathematics. Also gaining three distinctions were Renesh Gorbhadan (Acc, Math, PHSC), Vukile Langa (Bus Studies, IsiZulu, Math), Bandile Msimanga (IsiZulu, LO, Math) and Graeme Stroebel (EGD, Geog, Math).

St Dominic’s Academy Newcastle congratulates the students, parents and teachers on these results and wishes all the students the very best with their studies.