Umalusi CEO Dr Mafu Rakometsi has expressed appreciation to community members for their cooperation in allowing the 2025 matric examinations to proceed without disruption.
Umalusi Chairperson Professor Yunus Ballim says the quality assurance body is satisfied with the manner and integrity with which the 2025 matric examinations were conducted.
Ballim says Umalusi is confident that the matric results, which will be officially released by Basic Education Minister Siviwe Gwarube on Monday, were not compromised and remain credible.
Umalusi was briefing members of the media in Pretoria on a range of issues, including the assessment and standards of matric and higher education examinations, as well as criminal acts related to exam breaches.
Umalusi has reported that the 2025 matric exams were conducted in more than 300 subjects across approximately 9 400 examination centres.
Over one million candidates sat for the examinations, distributed among four assessment bodies and four qualifications.
Ballim states that National Senior Certificate (NSC) candidates accounted for 90.3% of the total.
“Umalusi Council congratulates all the assessment bodies for successfully conducting, administering and managing the 2025 end-of-year examinations. As evidenced by the numbers presented, the examination system is large and complex,” Ballim says.
“I want to repeat what we have said before it is not an easy task to ensure that each one of the over 1 million candidates across the over 9 400 examination centres receives the correct question paper at the right time and in the correct venue, individual scripts are collected and marked, marks are verified before being transferred onto the computer systems and submitted to Umalusi for standardisation purposes, standardisation decisions are implemented on the system and that learners are resulted in a timely manner.”
GENERAL INFORMATION
- The results that are reflected on this website are the results of the candidates that registered for the Senior Certificate (SC).
- The results of candidates that registered for the National Senior Certificate (NSC) will be available at the examination centre where they wrote.
- The Statement of Results for all candidates will be available as per the dates listed below, at the school/examination centre where the candidate wrote the examination.
- Some candidate’s results may be excluded from the results published on this website because of technical reasons. If a candidate’s results are not on the website, the candidate should please enquire at the centre where they wrote or the district/provincial office.
- Senior Certificate candidates can only rewrite their examination in May/June 2026.
- National Senior Certificate (NSC) candidates can register for the October/November 2025 examination, at the nearest District Office, if you have not already done so. The closing dates for registration of NSC candidates who wrote the May/June examination is 21 August 2025. The registration requirements are on the reverse side of your Statement of Results.
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