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The Independent Examinations Board (IEB) is a South African independent assessment agency which offers examinations for various client schools, mostly private schools.It is most prominent in setting examinations for the school-leaving National Senior Certificate (NSC) examination, a qualification that replaced the Senior Certificate and Further Education and Training Certificate.
The first formal examination was conducted in South Africa under the University of the Cape of Good Hope in 1858. [ 1 ] In general usage, the school-leaving exams, which are government-administered, are known as the "matric exams"; by extension, students in the final year of high school ( grade 12 ) are known as "matriculants" or, more commonly ...
Some home schools and private schools offer the option to complete an additional year after grade 12, sometimes known as grade 13 or "post-matric". The South African governmental school system does not have a grade 13 yet, but it forms part of non-South African curriculums that are sometimes followed by private schools in South Africa. [16]
Stirling High School is a public English medium co-educational high school in the suburb of Stirling in East London, Eastern Cape province, South Africa. The school offers grade 8–12 education and has approximately 1,100 students. Its motto is "Semper Fidelis" (English: Always faithful).
Most girls enter the school in grade 4, coming from St. Andrew's Preparatory School. There are about 120 girls from grade 4 to grade 7 (the primary school phase) and 400 from grade 8 to grade 12 (the high school phase.) From grade 10 all the academic classes are shared with St. Andrew's College and are thus co-instructional.
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Kingswood College is an independent, co-educational Methodist school in Makhanda, (formerly Grahamstown).Founded in 1894 by William C Muirhead, Clifford Witheridge Dold, William Burnett Stocks and Richard Restall Stocks, Kingswood caters for boys and girls from Grade 000 to Grade 13 (Bridging Year) from all over the world.
In South Africa, the grading system used in secondary schools until 2008 (when the education minister implemented Outcomes Based Education or OBE curriculum) was as follows: