Sentence examples for the matric from inspiring English sources

Only 60% pass the matric, the high-school graduation certificate.

Last year all of Greenside's 12th graders passed the matric exams, and several ranked among the top achievers in public schools in Gauteng Province, which includes Johannesburg.

Only four out of every ten pupils who start school pass the matric, and only 5% pass maths with a mark above 50%.

The pass mark for the matric, the standard school-leavers' exam, has been cut to as low as 30% for some subjects.

In 2002, the latest year for which figures are available, only 4,637 of the 19,765 students who got higher-grade passes in maths in the matric exam were black.

Last year the school achieved a 100% pass rate in the "matric" examination usually taken by 18-year-olds, and nearly two-thirds of them went on to university.

Researchers at the South African Institute of Race Relations SAIRRR) find that this steep drop-out before the matric has been a consistent pattern in recent years (see chart 2).

Only four in ten pupils that start school stick it out to pass the matric, the school-leavers' exam, though the pass mark is as low as 30%, says the CDE.

Such a situation is not desirable as it becomes difficult to interpret the relationship between the measured matric suction and the water content of the specimen.

The weights in the weighting matric are according to the difference of the two pixels in the same position within two symmetrical support windows.

The equilibrium time which is needed by the HCT to read the initial matric suction of the soil specimen is about 10 min.