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High matric pass rate hides serious youth challenges
The Mercury
|January 28, 2026
MANY congratulations to the class of 2025.
However, I must repeat what I have said before. Every year we see more and more learners getting 10, 9, 8, 7 distinctions, etc. It's absolutely amazing and one has to ask, is the standard a bit too low for these bright kids?
Then we look at the other end of the scale, and we see one can get a pass with a few subjects in the 30s and a few in the forties? Is that a pass? I have to ask.
In my and my husband’: day, if one got one or two A’, you were lauded as brilliant. That would be poor in today’s matric pass. And yet were we not as clever? Or did we not work half as hard? I'm not sure of the answer.
यह कहानी The Mercury के January 28, 2026 संस्करण से ली गई है।
हजारों चुनिंदा प्रीमियम कहानियों और 10,000 से अधिक पत्रिकाओं और समाचार पत्रों तक पहुंचने के लिए मैगज़्टर गोल्ड की सदस्यता लें।
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