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FAC 2017 (62) - AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE – DOUBLE AWARD (DA)

213. Ninety-eight per cent of the candidates who wrote the DA Examination in 2017
achieved Grades I-III, compared with 94 per cent in 2016. There was a marked increase in
performance on Papers 02 and 03, the Essay papers and Paper 04, the School-Based
Assessment when compared with 2016. Candidate performance remained consistent on
Paper 01, the Multiple Choice. An improved performance was seen on all profiles: Profile 01,
Business of Farming, Profile 02, Crop Production and Profile 03, Animal Production, when
compared with the previous year.

FAC 2017 (63) - AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE – SINGLE AWARD (SA)

214. Ninety-one per cent of the candidates who wrote the SA examination in 2017 achieved
Grades I-III, compared with 88 per cent in 2016. Candidate performance on Paper 03, the
School-Based Assessment, remained consistent with 2016, while there was a marked
improvement on Paper 02, the Essay, and a slight decline on Paper 01, the Multiple Choice.
While there was moderate improvement in performance on Profile 02, Crop Production and
Profile 03, Animal Production, when compared with 2016, performance on Profile 01,
Business of Farming, remained consistent.

FAC 2017 (68) - ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT PREPARATION AND MANAGEMENT

215. This was the first administration of the Paper 01 using the Multiple Choice format.

216. There was an improved performance overall with 95 per cent of the candidates
achieving Grades I–III compared with 91 per cent in 2016. There was also an improved
performance on Paper 01 in 2017 when compared to 2016, as well as on Paper 02, the
Production Paper and Paper 031, the School-Based Assessment. The performance on Paper
032, the Alternative to the SBA was consistent with 2016.

FAC 2017 (69) - ENGLISH A

217. Overall performance in English A declined by approximately 3 per cent compared with
2016. Sixty-four per cent of the candidates achieved Grades I–III compared with 67 per cent
in 2016. However, the percentage of candidates who achieved Grade I showed a slight
increase from 19 per cent in 2016 to 20 per cent in 2017. Improved performance was noted
on Profile 1, Understanding while performance on Profile 2, Expression, declined.

FAC 2017 (70) - ENGLISH B

218. The performance of candidates in the June 2017 English B examination showed a
decline in the number of candidates achieving Grades I–III. Fifty per cent of the candidates
achieved Grades I–III in June 2017 compared with 62 per cent in June 2016. This decline in
the overall performance was reflected in all three profiles: Profile 1, Drama, Profile 2, Poetry
and Profile 3, Prose Fiction.

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