JMB, noun
In historical contexts. A short name for the Joint Matriculation Board, a statutory body created in 1916 to conduct a university entrance examination, to prescribe the conditions under which exemption from this examination might be granted, to issue school-leaving certificates, and (later) to control standards of marking and curriculum development at matriculation level. Also attributive. See also matriculation.
- Note:
- From 1921, the four provinces began setting their own matriculation examinations. An Act to dismantle the Board was passed in 1984 but has yet to come into effect (1994).
1956 G.H. Durrant in Proceedings of Conference of Writers, Publishers, Editors (Witwatersrand Univ. Press, 1957) 13These measures..apply only to the J.M.B.’s own examinations.
1991 P.R.T. Nel tr. of M.H. Trümpelmann’s Joint Matric. Board 129The JMB had fulfilled an important function in controlling and maintaining standards for university admission [but]..the JMB had concerned itself too narrowly with universities only.
A short name for the Joint Matriculation Board, a statutory body created in 1916 to conduct a university entrance examination, to prescribe the conditions under which exemption from this examination might be granted, to issue school-leaving certificates, and (later) to control standards of marking and curriculum development at matriculation level. Also attributive.
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