Report on the National Senior Certificate Examination Results 2010.

REPORT ON THE NATIONAL SENIOR CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION RESULTS • 2010
all learners are allowed to register for the nsc regardless of their physical and educational needs . this
includes learners with special needs. The Endorsed NSC allows Grade 12 candidates to obtain the NSC
based on offering five subjects for the NSC examination. In addition, learners with Special Needs (LSEN)
who experience any form of barrier to learning are granted special concessions according to their needs.
These special concessions include: braille for blind learners, adapted question papers for the deaf, extended
time duration for specific learning difficulties, scribes for candidates that are unable to write, amanuensis for
candidates that need to have the question paper read and answers written for them . all of these concessions
are offered based on stringent conditions so as to ensure that the credibility of the nsc is not compromised .
on an annual basis there are also candidates abroad who are citizens of the republic of south africa and have
registered for the National Senior Certificate, and have written the NSC examination abroad. Further, at U-tech
in Big Ben, Swaziland approximately 200 candidates wrote the NSC examination. All these candidates were
repeat candidates from various schools in the Mpumalanga Province. U-tech has been identified as a national
examination centre for NSC candidates as an attempt to reduce the number of illegal candidates writing of
national examination without the necessary student permits from Swaziland. For the 2010 NSC examination,
one candidate from Kwa Zulu Natal wrote the examinations in Moscow. this is undertaken to ensure that no
candidate is denied the opportunity of writing the examination, irrespective of where they may be located
across the globe at the time of the conduct of the NSC examination.
2.3 Question Papers
(a) Setting of the 2010 question papers
The Department of Basic Education (DBE) is responsible for the setting of all question papers for the National
Senior Certificate (NSC) examination to ensure adherence to national Norms and Standards as defined in
the National Education Policy Act, of 1996 . this practice has certainly contributed to an improvement in the
standard of question papers as well as the enhancement of a national standard in the country, which has been
found to be comparable to international standards .
All question papers for the Grade 12 NSC, were set by a national expert panel of examiners consisting of
between 3 - 5 examiners per panel and one internal moderator appointed by the DBE and external moderation
is undertaken by Umalusi. The panel of examiners and moderators consisted of experienced and qualified
subject specialists, teachers and university lecturers. One hundred and ninety two (192) examiners and 38
internal moderators were involved in the setting and moderation of the Grade 12 November 2010 and March
2011 National Senior Certificate examination question papers.
The setting and moderation of question papers for the November 2010 and March 2011 examinations
commenced in November 2009 and was concluded in August 2010, when they were officially handed over to
PEds for printing .
all question papers were set within the secure environment of the department of basic Education . the question
papers for the November 2010 and March 2011 examinations were concurrently set, internally moderated and
externally moderated by Umalusi. These papers were set simultaneously, to ensure a comparable standard
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