Rant - 27%

[ChefDJ]

I was listening to 702 this morning and a caller phoned in to tell John Robbie that his friend or something is responsible for the report grading and finalisation etc of all report cards for the school. This person received an email from the Department of Education, stating that ALL maths and science learners MUST have their final marks rounded UP by 27%...

Now to me, this is absolutely ridiculous.

The pass rate for maths is already, what... 30% these days? So if a learner gets 3% for maths, they are going to pass the learner? 30% as a pass rate is bad enough already. I most certainly do not want someone building my house if they only got 30% for maths, let alone less than that but passed anyway with an automatic upgrade of 27%.

Someone needs to point out to the Dept. of Education that simply having better numbers of learners who passed does not help the situation. Watch these learners slack off even further now, too. Aim for 3% so you can still pass. Well done...

I should go back and redo my matric. I'll get a distinction for maths and I'll pass science which I never even took.

 

[tivoli786]

:withStu: ooo jurre f@k

 

[GoCart]

So very sad, I guess parents will now have to motivate their kids to achieve a reasonable mark, and not simply aim for a pass.

 

[boost3d]

But it still wont help you have to read out a large number when you are making your speech to the country.....:roflol:

 

[tman]

No offense. Sounds like a "friend knows someone, who knows someone, who's uncle once got this email" type story.

Let's get confirmation of this email, before we speculate and get angry for no reason.

With that said, I won't be surprised if it's true.

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[moranor@axis]

30% pass is BS anyway who things getting something 30% right is good enough?

who will employ someone who gets things right 30% of the time?

this is setting people up to fail

 

[Lizzard]

Actually this is true.

I have a friend who works in the department and when I yelled at him for this poor judgement of how they handle maths he quickly defended himself by sending me an internal email (not going to share that) where it is explained how they are giving the GR10 and GR11 student's different points but overall is about how the maths subject is too difficult.

It is true, they are giving them additional point and it is like 20 point out of a 100 point etc that they getting. This system is pathetic as I am still at this moment arguing with him and that they could redo a paper and then rewrite that as opposite to this giving them points.

These peoples are going to look like idiots after this and I know for a fact there are people's who actually learned and earned there points.

This is just pathetic

 

[Ralf*]

30% pass is BS anyway who things getting something 30% right is good enough?

who will employ someone who gets things right 30% of the time?

this is setting people up to fail

thus 70% wrong.........
in my time 50% was the pass mark, with a push thru on a standard grade if you got 40%

 

[ChefDJ]

30% pass is BS anyway who things getting something 30% right is good enough?

who will employ someone who gets things right 30% of the time?

this is setting people up to fail

Or having a surgeon perform an operation on you who only knows 30% of what he needs to :skit:

 

[Woodies]

And they say the eduction standard isn't going down! Look at the increased percentage of students now failing 1st year university. Next the department of education will make the universities drop their standards too.
So in a few years time a university degree will be the same as a matric certificate

 

[Zound]

I don't believe Universities will follow suit and I do not believe universities and tertiary institutions should so easily be likened or associated with that of national secondary education.

Industries will simply learn to discredit the qualification of "Matric" or more formally, the "National Senior Certificate (NSC)". This forces individuals to pursue tertiary education, specifically with the objective of obtaining degrees with renowned credibility. In order to obtain admittance into such a degree, the individual is required to have met certain requirements in terms of subject scores pertaining to the degree in question. With a simple amount of foresight, the individual will understand that simply passing is no longer, or perhaps never was, an acceptable outcome of their secondary education.

Many University degrees are in accord with various international organisations, and are not subject to national education schemes. For example, as a mechanical engineering undergraduate of the University of Pretoria, my degree is acknowledged by the Washington Accord.

"The Washington Accord, signed in 1989, is an international agreement among bodies responsible for accrediting engineering degree programs. It recognizes the substantial equivalency of programs accredited by those bodies and recommends that graduates of programs accredited by any of the signatory bodies be recognized by the other bodies as having met the academic requirements for entry to the practice of engineering."

While national education at a primary and secondary level may be concerning, we should not be entertaining this apparent atmosphere of "Doom and gloom" regarding South African academics.

 

[Captain_Stealth]