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1 Report of the Ministerial Panel established to review the Grade 12 NSC Mathematics Examination Papers of November 2008 Introduction The Minister of Education, Ms Naledi Pandor, announced at a meeting of the Committee of Education Ministers on 12 January 2009 that a panel of mathematics experts would be constituted to provide advice on the standard of the Senior Certificate Mathematics examination papers of November 2008. This request arose after criticism of the standard of the mathematics examination papers by two different groups. The first was from a group called the Concerned Mathematics Educators (CME) who released a press statement on 5 January 2009 claiming that the November examination papers were “watered down” and that the “standard of the Mathematics exam for 2008 had dropped to an unacceptable level”. Furthermore, the Concerned Mathematics Educators claimed that students with more than 50% on the mathematics papers were not necessarily prepared to cope with “Mathematics related courses such as Engineering, Architecture, and Business Science at tertiary institutions”. The second recorded criticism was from academics and commentators who expressed concern through the media (see: e tv interviews 30 December 2008; The Star, 3 January 2009; Business Day, 6 January 2009;). They suggested that since the numbers of learners (63 035) passing Mathematics with more than 50% represented a significant increase from the approximately 28 000 learners who had passed Higher Grade Mathematics at the 40% level in 2006 (28 156) and 2007 (28 263) it should be asked whether the 2008 results at this level were comparable to Higher Grade passes in previous years.
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