South Africa's Grade 5 pupils have been ranked last out of 59 countries in maths and science in an international standardised ...

Grades 5 and 9 learners from South Africa were ranked the lowest compared to other countries in the world in mathematics and ...

English literature and maths - being the first to be graded in numbers. By 2020, all subjects were using the new grading system. The highest grade is 9, while 1 is the lowest, and U means "ungraded".