Stanford Lake College prepares students for university entrance examinations of the Independent Examinations Board (IEB)

The School is extremely proud of its record in these examinations. Since its inception, the College has maintained a 100% pass rate. The percentage of students obtaining university entrance is normally well above 80%. The College has already produced three students in the IEB Top 50: Dario Da Silva, Tercia Da Silva and Talia Da Silva.

In 2009, three students, Tim Kuiper, Tessa Morris and Natalie Reed were in the top 5% of IEB students.

In line with international trends, the IEB seeks to create life-long learners who can solve problems, analyse, synthesise, and apply and integrate what they have learnt. Within the context of independent schools, teacher forums (clusters) meet regularly to network and further develop their assessment skills to make the assessment of these outcomes possible. Stanford Lake College staff play a leading role in the northern region clusters. Several of our teachers are cluster leaders, regular markers and moderators. 

Rigorous moderation procedures and monitoring have ensured quality assessment.

Benchmarking with the Scottish Qualifications authority (SQA) confirms that the IEB Senior Certificate Examination meets international standards.

We have chosen this examination because:

• Our teachers have confidence in the combination of internal and external assessment;
• We enjoy the close relationship we have with the IEB Board;
• It confirms professionalism;
• The standards are internationally benchmarked;
• The system of user groups leads to strong personal and collegial development;
• The type of questions stimulates co-operative and progressive learning.

The examinations are run to the highest professional standards in consultation with UMALUSI, the General and Further Training Quality Assurance body, together with top educationalists. Monitoring teams have reported that high standards are maintained during the marking process and there is a high degree of professionalism in the running of the IEB examinations.

Recent research has shown that only 1% of all Gr. 12’s nationwide are IEB students, that 15% of first year graduates at RSA universities were IEB students, that  25% of all recent RSA graduates  were IEB students and that 97% of all past IEB students graduate. These are indeed impressive statistics.

For more information regarding the IEB, please access http://www.ieb.co.za