CAO HANDBOOK ENTRY 2017
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1. Submit your application as soon as possible.
2. Institutions receive applications from 1 March for the following year's
January intake.
3. TVET colleges offer trimester programmes. Applications for these will be
received at various points in the year. See the CAO website for details, or
call us for more information.
4. If you are in Grade 12, DON’TWAIT until you have your June examination
results to apply. If you are applying before your June results are available,
submit a copy of your Grade 11 final results when you apply and submit
a copy of your June and September results as they become available. We
will add them to your original application.
For early consideration, your application must be accompanied by at least:
4.1 A certified copy of your ID. If you don’t have a copy of your ID, you
must write your ID number on the online or hard copy application
and submit a certified copy of your ID as soon as you get it.
4.2 A certified copy of your Grade 11 examination results if you are
currently in Grade 12. Send us your June and September results as
soon as they become available.
4.3 A certified copy of your Grade 12 statement of results OR a certified
copy of your Grade 12 OR matric certificate, if you have already
completed Grade 12.
4.4 If you are applying to a TVET college, you must send a certified copy
of results of the last grade you have passed at school.
5. Messages: We will only communicate with you via cellular phone (the
cellular phone number that you provide on your original application form
or the one you may have changed via written communication with us).
Letters: We will only communicate with you via the email address you
provide in your original application form, or by fax or post (in that order).
6. Institutions start making offers early in the year. It is in your best
interest to submit your application form as soon as possible. Provide
an email address and cellular phone number. Selection decisions are
communicated via SMS, and all letters, for example, offer letters, are
communicated first by email. Only if you do not provide an email address
will we send letters by fax or post (in that order).
7. Please ensure that the email address and postal address on your
application form are correct. If you provide the incorrect email or postal
address, your letters will not reach you.
8. Please provide the correct cellular phone number as all messages are
sent to you by SMS or email.
9. If you have provided a cellular number or email address, you will receive
a message as well as a letter in which we acknowledge that we have
received and processed your application form.
10. The letter will have all the details you have provided and request that
you inform us if we have made any mistakes/omissions in capturing your
information.
11. You will also receive an SMS, a letter (either by email or post) to inform
you of any offers that you have been made by an institution to which you
have applied. Try your best to have an email address to which we can
send letters as the postal service is sometimes quite unreliable.
12. You will receive only an SMS to inform you of any unsuccessful
applications.
13. Make sure that the ID number and name and surname you use on
your application form is exactly the same as the one you use when you
register for the final NSC examinations. If it differs, we will not be able
to download your NSC examination results from the Department of
Basic Education (DBE) database and match them to your application
information at the institution.
3. Important Notice and Terms and Conditions
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