ANDILE KHUMALO: Probe needed into black pass rate
The publication of the APC exam results came as a shock to the accountancy profession
During the course of 2018, two curious events occurred affecting the assessment processes of the legal and accounting professions in SA. First, the Law Society of SA took the unusual step of forcing candidate attorneys to re-sit their admission exams after a leak had been discovered in the initial sitting in August. The leak emanated from the inclusion of the model answer to an exam which was handed out with the exam paper itself. Keen to maintain the integrity of the exam process, the National Bar Examination Board rescheduled the exams to a later date - presumably with greater care paid to the process. For prospective chartered accountants, the Assessment of Professional Competence (APC) exam, the old Board part 2, was convened and completed without incident in November. However, the publication of the results last month came as a shock to the profession. As the last formal assessment in the journey towards the CA designation, the APC represents a deal-breaker for most candidates....
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