2011 Grade 12 Maths + Maths Lit Exam Papers

Here are the departmental Mathematics and Maths Literacy exam papers and memos for 2011. With the final exams coming up, they are a great revision tool for learners to make sure they are ready. Good Luck! Mathematics: Grade 12 Maths March 2011 Paper 1 Grade 12 Maths March 2011 Paper 1 – Memo Grade 12 Maths [...]

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Great news at the start of the third school term! GetSmarter, a high-touch online education company, and Teacher’s Monthly are giving away a place in the upcoming Cambridge University Press Grade 12 Mathematics course worth R5,400. As a Teacher’s Monthly reader, you can nominate ANY Grade 12 learner who you think deserves to go on this course for FREE.

New online maths course for Grade 12′s

School learners spend their entire school careers working up to one final goal: passing their matric exams and ensuring a better chance at tertiary education and work in future. In recent years the matric maths pass rate has been frightening with only 30% of the candidates achieving pass marks high enough for university entrance. Cape [...]

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 [...]

Does our matric compare favourably with international standards?

The replacement of the old Senior Certificate with the new National Senior Certificate (NSC) in 2008 was greeted with considerable suspicion. Once the results of the first cohort was released, various commentators speculated in the press about the standard of the examination and its associated curriculum. Are these fears warranted?

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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