East London Matriculants Before and After Maths Paper 1 in TikTok Have SA in Stitches, Video Gets 282K Views

• South African final-year students are busy with their mid-year exams, and some have made content about the experience
• Students from East London Science College in the Eastern Cape recorded before and after clips of themselves on the day they wrote maths paper 1
• People were amused after seeing the different reactions they all had to the apparently difficult examination

Matriculants from Science College in East London went TikTok viral. The students showed people how they handled their mathematics exam.

Seeing how all pupils acted differently after writing maths was an entertaining spectacle for South Africans. The video of the Science College students garnered over 46 000 likes.

East London Science College matriculants rocked by June maths paper 1

A video posted by @kwa_cwesh shows East London Science College students arriving for their maths paper 1. The clip then transitions to them looking more dishevelled after writing:

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South Africans joke about the students who found maths paper 1 exam difficult

People love to see high schoolers' shenanigans. This video was hilarious as many people could see how much their academics affected them.

wrote:

"It's the different hairstyles for me after the exam."

Sandiso Thokozani said:

"Someone call Sam and check up on her please."

I hate you! joked:

"Were they writing a maths paper or fighting demons?"

Prolific_Sa laughed:

"Sam is calculating how many marks she lost to questions she skipped."

Miss Mbali wondered:

"Is Sam all right?"

user9270530463083 commented:

"Sam is still seeing flames from that exam."

Umalusi sets up panel to investigate "unsolvable" question in matric maths paper

Briefly News previously reported that the impossible maths paper 2 question, which had matric pupils and teachers up in arms, has sparked an investigation from quality-assured Umlasi.

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A three-member independent panel will probe how the error slipped passed examiners and moderators tasked with assessing the matric exam before they were printed for examination.

Umalusi spokesperson Biki Lepota said that the panel would probe the entire value chain, investigating all the processes that the question paper underwent, from development to quality assurance and printing, TimesLIVE reported.

Source: Briefly News