D-Day for the approximately 600 000 people who wrote matric in South Africa will be December 28 when the Department of Education releases this year’s final exam results.
The results will be available in newspapers at 6am, said department spokesperson Lunga Ngqengelele.
The results will come at the end of a year that saw an enormous public-sector pay strike bring schooling to a halt for several weeks in June as teachers also the joined picket lines.
Extra classes had to be arranged to help pupils catch up.
A total of 599 048 pupils enrolled to write the exam, which forms an important base qualification for pupils hoping to further their studies at university or college and is becoming a basic job application requirement in many fields.
In 2005, 533 405 pupils enrolled and in 2006 the enrolment was 554 079. — Sapa