09/01/2026
Standardisation of NSC results of DBE 📚🇿🇦
A total of 903 561 candidates (766 543 full time and 137 018 part-time) wrote the NSC examination under the DBE.
The candidates were distributed across 6 955
examination centres throughout the country.
The DBE presented results of 68 subjects for standardisation, and, after careful analysis of the numerical evidence and narrative reports presented, the ASC arrived at the following decisions:
a) raw marks were accepted for 56 subjects (82.4%),
b) mainly upward adjustments were made in 7 subjects (10.3%), and
c) mainly downward adjustments were made in 5 subjects (7.4%).
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