Pretoria - Its heads down this morning as thousands of Grade 12 learners around the country sit for their final English paper one.
The 2015 National Senior Certificate (NSC) examinations commence today and will end on 30 November 2015.
The exams will be administered across 6 797 examination centres in the country with 65 000 invigilators and 49 900 markers.
The Basic Education Department this year marks the highest number of pupils who have enrolled for the exams since 1994.
A total of 801 688 matriculants are registered for the examinations.
Of these, 674 232 of those are full-time candidates and 127 456 are part-time candidates, says the Department of Basic Education.
Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga will release the results on 5 January. – SAnews.gov.za
