School's Report 2012 National Senior Certificate (NSC) Examination

Figure 2(b) Comparison of the overall passes in Accounting: 2011 and 2012
Agricultural Sciences
One of the critical science subjects offered by candidates in Kwa Zulu Natal is Agricultural Sciences.
This subject was also targeted for interventions and it formed part of the common testing programme.
Figure 3 below compares the pass percentage between 2011 and 2012 in Agricultural Sciences as
well as the quality of passes. In 2011 the pass percentage in Agricultural Sciences was 75.0% and in
2012 it was 76.8%. This is an increase of 7.3% from the 2011 pass percentage. The graph shows that
the quality of passes improved in 2012 when compared with that of 2011. In 2011 a total of 44.6% of
candidates passed at 40% and above and in 2012 this percentage increased by 1.7% giving 46.3%.
The improvement in the quality of passes shows that provincial interventions are not only targeting
the quantities of learners who pass the subjects but it takes quality of learner performance seriously.
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