The Department of Basic Education has revealed how much it costs to run the 2024 matric exams and it is a very, very large amount.
This is because each candidate costs the government between R3 800 and R4 000 to print exams, transport them and mark them.
This is not just the cost of printing the exam papers, but the department claims that enormous figure covers the cost of:Maintenance and enhancements to the Examination Computer system,alleged that printing the question papers alone amounted to R3.6 billion, which the department is saying is actually the full amount the 2024 matric exams cost to be conducted. Instead, DBE claims printing alone stands at R220 million.
The department claims that there is no national directive to make sure that all provinces print exams in the same way through the Government Printing Works .
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