POLOKWANE – Mitchell House has congratulated its matriculants on their excellent results following the release of IEB results this morning.
The school obtained a 100% pass rate with 21 of the 23 learners earning a Bachelor Degree Pass. The group earned 39 distinctions with Tamron Saais and Khanyisa Baloyi each topping the cluster with six distinctions each.
Tamron earned her spot in the top 1% of nationwide learners in Afrikaans as well as Life Orientation and Tshego Rampedi landed in the top 1% for Business Studies.
Mitchell House Head of College, Claude Goeminne congratulated the learners on their outstanding results, saying he is very proud of the 2016 matric class. “It goes to show that everyone if them put in extra hard work. I wish them all the best with their future endeavors and they must carry the Mitchell House name with pride wherever they go,” he said.
Khanyisa Baloyi received distinctions for accounting, afrikaans, business studies, english, life orientation and mathematics.Tamron Saais received distinctions for mathematics, life orientation, life sciences, english, afrikaans and accounting.
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