Let's start with the pass rate over the last 8 years, not including 2016:
The 2015 pass rate per province looks like this:
Here is the amount of learners (roughly) who wrote the NSC final exams versus those who passed in each province.
A pass isn't just a pass. Depending on your marks, you can get a bachelors pass, a diploma pass, or a higher certificate pass, dictating what kind of tertiary education you can apply for. The following graph indicates the type of passes in each province for 2015.
How the subjects stacked up.
To access the matric 2016 results, visit the News24 Matric Results website.