Rayyan Ebrahim, 19, from Pinelands High School in the Western Cape, has been named South Africa's top matriculant for the 2024 National Senior Certificate (NSC) exams. The Western Cape achieved a record-breaking matric pass rate of 86.6%, the highest ever recorded in the province. Ebrahim credits his success to dedication, early mornings, and a balanced approach to studying.
Top matric candidate Rayyan Ebrahim, 19, from Pinelands High School, and his parents alongside the Education MEC David Maynier. Picture: WCED“It feels quite overwhelming and unbelievable to me to have achieved this. But I’m just so humbled and grateful to have my hard work recognised on such a high level.”
Four Western Cape matrics received awards on Monday evening, including the top candidate in the country, which went to Ebrahim. “I think I would have maybe paced myself a bit more at the start of the year, especially in the June exams, because that's really the first of three sets of exams in matric. So I think I would have just told myself to just, you know, ‘take failure in your stride’. If you’re not reaching your goals yet, that’s okay.”
Western Cape Education MEC David Maynier commented: “The fact that the top candidate in the country has come from the Western Cape for seven of the last eight NSCs is really a testament to our department’s vision for quality education. Stellenbosch’s Melissa Muller was placed number one out of more than 700 000 matric learners who sat for the National Senior Certificate exams in 2023. Picture: Armand Hough / Independent Newspapers
“Along with the success of being the top matriculant, comes a lot of high expectations. Being the top matriculant gave me the confidence boost I needed going into university, and I learnt a lot of important lessons during the weeks that followed the announcement,” Muller said. Speaking of this week’s NSC ceremony, Prowse said she had the same feeling of nostalgia as Muller, but also uses it as motivation.
“However, doing well in anything obviously creates some expectations that are often very hard to maintain. So the assumption is that you’re too smart to slip up, you’re too smart to get a bad result. People expect you to maintain this level of high achievement.” Reflecting on her moment as the top learner, Dippenaar said that it was so big, and “everything was so extremely busy that it’s nice to be able to reflect on that time now and remember it fondly”.
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