The National Senior Certificate runs on dates and rules that are published long before you sit — the timetable, who may write, who issues the certificate, and what a re-mark can and cannot change. This page pulls together what the Department of Basic Education publishes, in the order it matters.
The videos
These are the videos that go with this page. They are short, and every claim in them is cited on screen.
MATRIC 2026: The Official Exam Dates (and the 14-Day Rule After Results)
Watch on YouTube — published 2026-09-21
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9Ios0sZTsQ
What the video covers
- The Window
- The 2026 Timetable
- Maths Lands In One Session
- The Registration Deadline
- Who May Write
- What Actually Earns The Nsc
- Who Issues The Certificate
- What Standardisation Is
- Who Decides Results Day
- How It Ran Last Time
- Where You Get Your Result
- What A Re-Mark Really Is
- The 14-Day Rule
- The Fees, Per Cycle
- View, Final Re-Mark, Appeal
- If This Year Goes Wrong
- The Second Chance Route
- Past Papers Are Free
The questions this answers
- matric rewrite
- matric results
- matric remark
- matric 2026
- grade 12 results
- nsc results
Where the answers come from
Built from Department of Basic Education — NSC timetable, exam FAQ and Second Chance. Every point in the videos names the source it came from, so you can check it yourself:
- DBE · 2025 results release
- DBE · June NSC exams
- DBE · NSC exam FAQ
- DBE · Oct/Nov 2026 timetable
- DBE · Second Chance programme
- DBE · past examination papers
- NSC policy · Govt Notice 564
- Umalusi · standardisation explained
- WCED · NSC exams Nov 2026
- gov.za · check matric results
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