A Data Set of Final Year High School Examination Texts of South African Home and First Additional Language Subjects

This article describes a data set of reading comprehension and summary writing texts that were used in final-year high school examinations South Africa between 2008 2020. It contains for eleven official African languages. PDF versions the stem from Africa’s Department Basic Education’s online public access repository. Plain text is extracted PDFs are tokenized. The 429 full-text files with 929 manually texts. useful studies investigating, e.g., linguistic properties, readability, complexity any Furthermore, both intra-language inter-language comparisons or investigations can be made.