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Grade 12 Life Sciences Past Papers 2011

Here are the departmental exam papers and memos for Life Sciences and Lewenswetenskappe for Grade 12 for 2011. They are a great revision tool to prepare for the upcoming exams. Good Luck! Life Sciences: Life Sciences Grade 12 Paper 1 March 2011 Life Sciences Grade 12 Paper 2 March 2011 Life Sciences Grade 12 Paper 1 [...]

Grade 12 English Home and First Additional Language Past Papers 2011

These are the departmental papers for English Home and First Additional Language for 2011. They are great to work through before the exams, so that you know you are ready! Good Luck! English Home Language: February/ March 2011: English HL Grade 12 Paper 1 2011 English HL Grade 12 Paper 2 2011 English HL Grade [...]

Elearning: A solution to matric maths problem?

Passionate Cape Town maths and science teacher, Paul Carter, has teamed up with Cambridge University Press and South Africa’s leading online training company to create an eLearning project that he hopes will help improve the struggling matric maths pass rate. Carter feels this is the next step in his quest to make maths more accessible [...]

Find past exam papers quickly

Past exam papers are normally a mission to find. TestGrab, a new service launched recently by EvaluNet, offers past exam papers for download from their web site, all based on the grade 12 matric exams for South Africa. Subjects included are: Accounting Afrikaans Business Studies CAT Consumer Studies Economics English Geography History Hospitality Studies IT [...]

More Matric Woes

Malcolm Venter The 2009 Matric results have, once again, revealed the sad state of our education system, with two out of every five who wrote failing, and with a pass rate 2% lower than in 2008. The pass rates for gateway subjects such as Maths, Science and Accounting, and the failure rate for Home Language [...]

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The Flipped Classroom

by Adrian Marnewick

The “flipped” classroom is an idea that teachers shoot a video of a lesson, then make the video available online for learners to view at home. Class time is devoted to problem solving and guidance. It’s an approach that flips the delivery of the lesson to homework. Dorian Love posted an excellent piece with various [...]

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