Provinces ready for 2020 matric examinations – education minister

With matric final exams underway, minister of the department of basic education Angie Motshekga said all provinces are set.

The provincial education departments completed the training of chief supervisors and supervisors by the end of October 2020.

“There was strict adherence to Covid-19 protocols in provinces where face-to-face modality was used for the training of supervisors in cluster groupings.”

Motshekga said the departments had also appointed private supervisors and private monitors to manage and monitor the administration of exams at designated centres, while also having increased coverage of monitoring.

“Social distancing has been decreased to 1m and this has assisted with the space provision for writing of exams.”

Motshekga said that the provinces had further completed the audit of examination centres.

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“Centres have been categorised according to risk profile.”

She also said that all provinces had completed the marker selection process, and were currently managing the marking of subjects where shortages of markers had been identified.

Motshekga said with regards to the monitoring of exams, there would be daily reports submitted to the DBE and provinces were expected to submit the final irregularity reports on or before Monday, 25 January 2021.

“The DBE will deploy part-time monitors to monitor the writing and distribution chain of question papers.

“Part-time monitors will also monitor the marking of exams. The DBE will also make use of online monitoring of the examinations,” Motshekga said.

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