{"id":16331,"date":"2026-01-11T02:23:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T02:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/16331\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T02:23:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T02:23:12","slug":"are-you-smarter-than-a-matriculant-take-our-short-quiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/16331\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you smarter than a matriculant? Take our short quiz"},"content":{"rendered":"

The wait is almost over. The Matric Class of 2025 will know how they fared in the National Senior Certificate (NSC) exams in a matter of days. Minister of Basic Education Siviwe Gwarube will announce the national results on Monday, 12 January 2026.<\/p>\n

While matriculants, parents, siblings and others await those much-anticipated scores, Daily Maverick thought a little fun quiz might ease the tension. It draws from past South African matric exam papers, testing your knowledge across key NSC subjects including English, mathematical literacy, life orientation and life sciences.<\/p>\n

Unlike the actual exams, which test pupils\u2019 mastery of the CAPS curriculum across seven subjects through multiple-choice questions, data exercises, experiments, essays and rigorous problem-solving, this one is light-hearted and bite-sized, just 20 questions to challenge you without the pressure of an academic setting.<\/p>\n

See below for the correct answers. Don\u2019t cheat, or we\u2019ll tell Umalusi.<\/p>\n

Matric results quiz memo<\/a>. DM<\/p>\n

For more updates heading into next week\u2019s release of the matric results, sign up for Daily Maverick\u2019s First Thing newsletter here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The wait is almost over. The Matric Class of 2025 will know how they fared in the National…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[10547,10548,6879,10549,10550,8295,131,9483],"class_list":{"0":"post-16331","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa","8":"tag-matric-results-2025","9":"tag-matriculants","10":"tag-nsc","11":"tag-past-nsc-exam-papers","12":"tag-quiz","13":"tag-siviwe-gwarube","14":"tag-south-africa","15":"tag-umalusi"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}