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13. Certificate of complete exemption by virtue of the examinations of examining bodies in the United Kingdom

  1. Subject to subparagraph 2 hereof, the Committee of Principals shall issue a certificate of complete exemption to a person who passed the examination of an examining body in the United Kingdom:

    Provided that -

    1. such person at one or more sittings for the examination obtained a pass in a minimum of either five subjects approved by the Committee of Principals for this purpose, at least two of which shall be approved Advanced Level subjects and the remainder approved Ordinary Level subjects, or four approved subjects, three of which shall be approved Advanced Level subjects and the remaining subject an approved Ordinary Level subject; and

    2. such person included in the four or five subjects at least one subject selected from each of the following groups:

        Group I: English Language;

        Group II: Afrikaans, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Latin, Nederlands, Portuguese or any other language approved by the Committee of Principals;

        Group III: Biology, Botany, Chemistry, French (if not offered under Group II), General Science, Geology, German (if not offered under Group II), Greek (if not offered under Group II), Hebrew (if not offered under Group II), Italian (if not offered under Group II), Latin (if not offered under Group II), Mathematics, Nederlands (if not offered under Group II), Physics, Physics-with-Chemistry, Portuguese (if not offered under Group II) and Zoology, or any other language approved by the Committee of Principals (if not offered under Group II).

  2. For the purpose of the issuing of a certificate of complete exemption -

    1. a credit in the Cambridge Overseas School Certificate examination shall be deemed to be an Ordinary Level subject pass of the General Certificate of Education;

    2. a Subsidiary Level subject pass for an examination conducted by an examining body in the United Kingdom up to and including the July 1993 examination shall be deemed to be an Ordinary Level or an M Level subject pass, whilst as from the November 1993 examination such a subject pass shall be deemed to be an Ordinary Level pass only;

    3. a mark of 42 to 44 per cent of the maximum marks in an M Level examination of the Associated Examining Board from the United Kingdom shall be deemed to be an Ordinary Level pass;

    4. a Principal Level subject pass at the Higher School Certificate examination conducted by an examining body in the United Kingdom shall be deemed to be an Advanced Level pass; and

    5. a pass in a first-year bachelor's degree instructional offering or instructional offerings approved by the Committee of Principals and leading to a degree at a South African university shall be deemed to be an Advanced Level pass.