News24 | Another private school registers dismal pass rate in Cambridge International AS-level exams

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Five out of six pupils from Queenswood Christian School in Pretoria failed the Cambridge International AS-level exams.

Five out of six pupils from Queenswood Christian School in Pretoria failed the Cambridge International AS-level exams.

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Five out of six pupils who wrote the 2023 Cambridge International AS-level exams at Queenswood Christian School in Pretoria flunked it.

And teachers laid the blame for the dismal pass rate squarely on the shoulders of students, saying they did not want extra assistance and thought all subjects apart from maths were easy.

This is the second school to record a poor pass rate in these exams after News24 revealed last week that 11 of the 23 pupils at Cooper College in Johannesburg, who sat for the same exams which is like a matric year, also failed.

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