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

Figure 10(a): Comparison of the overall passes in Mathematics: 2011 and 2012
Physical Sciences
Physical Science is one of the subjects in which the province improved both qualitatively and
quantitatively. The subject was part of the common testing programme and it is one of the critical
science subjects offered by candidates in Kwa Zulu Natal since 2008. Figure 11 below is a graph
that compares the pass percentage between 2011 and 2012 in Physical Sciences as well as the
quality of passes. In 2011 the pass percentage in Physical Sciences was 51.9% and in 2012 it is
58.3%. This is an increase of 6.4% from the 2011 pass percentage. The graph also shows that the
quality of passes improved in 2012 when compared with that of 2011. In 2011 a total of 30.8% of
candidates passed at 40% and above and in 2012 this percentage increased by 4.4% giving 35.2.
The improvement in the quality of passes in Physical Sciences shows that provincial interventions
successfully improved the passes numerically and qualitatively.
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