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Celebrating Cambridge at

Dainfern College

ainfern College is a proudly South
African school which also places
Dhuge emphasis on the value of
internationalism.

Since inception in 1997, Dainfern College has
offered the IEB National Senior Certificate
(‘matric’) as its exit examination, and the
first Grade 12 cohort wrote matric in 2001.
The College has maintained an outstanding
record of 100% pass every year in this well-
respected exit exam and students have gone
on to achieve significant success at tertiary
level and in the workplace.

As Dainfern College is a member of the
international Round Square association of
schools, internationalism is one of its key
drivers. The College therefore began to
research international exit exam options Cambridge Biology practical lesson
that would not only give its students a
globally recognised school qualification of intense market research, it was decided that HOW IT WORKS
but which would also benchmark the Cambridge Assessment International Education The Cambridge Studies programme
College’s academic offering against other should be added to the Dainfern College is an optional curriculum, offered in
schools, not only in South Africa but academic offering from 2019, alongside the parallel at the College. Students choose
internationally as well. After several years excellent IEB matric curriculum. to follow either the Cambridge A Level
or IEB Matric programmes at the start
of Grade 11. Cambridge students work
towards writing A Levels (Advanced
Levels) at the end of Grade 12 as
their exit exam. In Grade 11, the
students write Advanced Subsidiary
Level (AS Level) exams at the end of
the year – these are internationally
recognised external exams that assess
half the content of the A Levels, thus
giving students the opportunity to
‘write off’ some of the syllabus.

In order to meet university entrance
requirements in South Africa, all
Cambridge Studies students are
required to take Mathematics,
English Language and a second
South African language in addition
to three or four elective subjects.
Elective subjects currently offered
include Biology, Chemistry, Physics,
Some of the 2021 Cambridge Studies students Geography and History.

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