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full credit.
- Totals and sub-totals were also method marked with an inspection
on the part of the markers. This was often not adhered to – either
every total was just marked or in other cases these marks were not
awarded.
- Method marks for the final answers in the ratio calculations were
subject to the fact that at least one of the items reflected in the ratio
were correct. This was not always adhered to and candidates
and preparing the memo.
- There is a lack of consistency in the use of different coloured pens.
For example, in Biology in one script you find red, green and
black pens being used by the marker, senior marker and chief
marker respectively. In another script, from the same province,
green would represent the highest level of moderation. In North
West province, internal moderators used blue pens. This should
be discouraged since most learners write in blue.
were awarded the method marks with no item being accurate.
- The concept of foreign items was not consistently applied.
- Markers did not always mark the calculations/reconciliation in
question 2 HG and question 4 SG fairly.
- In Physical Science Paper 1, it was reported that the memo
discussion meeting was held two days after the paper was written.
This afforded members very little time to carry out pre-discussion
marking and in most cases members had no opportunity to do any
marking as they could not source any scripts at all.
- The memorandum submitted for external moderation is, in many
cases, not the finalized version. In Physical Science Paper 2 SG,
the memo submitted to the external moderator was not complete.
Thus the first day of discussion meeting was devoted to finalizing
7.6 In isiNdebele, in Mpumalanga the external moderator mentioned
the fact that out of the 34 moderated scripts, a number of computational
errors were identified, e.g.
- Script No.: B0000001947771 was given 32 instead of 37
- “ B0000001947750 was given 63 instead of 68
- “ B0000001947711 was given 37 instead of 53
- “ B0000001947775 was given 55 instead of 65
- “ B84041757856083 was given 49 instead of 52
In the HG P2 candidates performed poorly, especially in questions
1, 2 and 3. These questions were based on poetry. Indications are
that candidates were either not properly taught or did not
understand poetry at all. In another instance candidates did not
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