Talk:Matriculation
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For many years after GCE started, one of the principal exam boards was still called NUJMB - Northern Universities Joint Matriculation Board - ie the A-level exams and the still necessary O-levels in English and Maths, were explicitly provided by these exams. I think I've still got my statement of fitness to matriculate from NUJMB somewhere, even though in the end I went elsewhere :-) Linuxlad 20:20, 24 September 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Exemption from Matriculation
In South Africa the Secondary School Qualification that allows you admission to Universities in the Country is called Exemption From Matriculation and the standards are set by the Joint Matriculation Board. This come from the time when universities abandoned their own matriculation exams in favour of a national qualification given after School Final Examinations.
- Not any more they aren't. The qualification for university entrance is called Matriculation Endorsement (unless you are coming from another country to a South African university; then you need a Matriculation Exemption). The JMB was abolished in 1992; the requirements are now set by the Matriculation Board of Higher Education South Africa. (Examination standards for the Senior Certificate are managed by Umalusi.) - htonl 03:37, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] In India...
How is this related to the article at all:
- In India, " all matriculation results have shown that girls have done better than boys. The latest HSC results show that Mumbai's girls dominate the top 15 ranks in all streams. This belies the widely held belief that boys do better in maths and science and girls in languages and the arts. The results instead show that girls have done better overall " (DNA - an Indian newspaper - on Tuesday, June 06, 2006
I removed the section for now.
- ☭ Zippanova 06:54, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] South Australia
During my time at school in South Australia the final year of school was normally called Matriculation. You had to do Matric to enter University. A person who entered University had to be a Matriculant. This was a statute of the University. Originally a person finished school in Year 11. Year 12 seemed to have been developed to provide a level of education in 5 subjects to pass the final examinations. The body responsible for exams was the Public Examinations Board. Around the middle of the 1980's a tertiary entrance ranking was created. Originally the Matric exams accounted for 100% of the entrance requirements for University. This was reduced to 75% and then in 1986 to 50%. The term Matric is not used by the current generation of students. Ozdaren 08:01, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
