Showing posts with label Examination Guidelines. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Examination Guidelines. Show all posts

Sunday, 30 January 2022

Marking Reports, Free State Assessment Guidelines and Examination Guidelines


Teachers, remember to download your documents as requested at start-up meetings.

Grade 12 Marking Reports for November 2021 and Examination Guidelines are available under "Pages" and then "Examinations (TEACHERS) ...", or you can click here to go there.

The 2022 editions of the Free State Assessment Guidelines are available under "Pages" and then "Free State Assessment Guidelines", or you can click here to go there.

Tuesday, 4 May 2021

2021 Grade 12 Physical Sciences Examination Guideline is Available

The above-mentioned document has been received on 4 May 2021. Click here to go to the download page. Please note the info on the download page concerning the Examination Guidelines for other grades, including Technical Sciences.

Wednesday, 31 March 2021

Diagnostic Reports: NSC Examinations of November 2020

These reports were published on the DBE website on 30 March 2021. Copies of the reports are available here as well.


Updated Examination Guidelines were promised for 2021, but to date, nothing was received. Teachers will be informed when they are available. Until then, use the ones available on the above-mentioned page where the Diagnostic Reports are.

Thursday, 24 January 2019

Examination guidelines for teachers

No assessment requirements have changed. Hence, the previous versions of the examination guidelines for teachers are still in use. They are as follows:

  • For physical science grade 12; the 2014 version
  • For physical science grades 11 and 10; the 2015 versions
  • For technical science grade 12; the 2018 version
  • For technical science grades 11 and 10; nothing released by NDBE

To download the above-mentioned examination guidelines, go to this page and follow links from there.

Concerning the learner content documents (Examinable content/Eksamineerbare inhoud), the following:

  • The documents are Free State documents.
  • It is just an extract of the applicable content sections of the examination guidelines.
  • They are not available on this website.
  • It will DV be distributed in hard copy format to schools.
  • An e-version will in due course be available via the teachers' private cloud space. Get the link from your subject adviser.

Monday, 2 April 2018

Technical Sciences: Examination Guidelines and Exemplar Papers for Grade 12

Towards the end of March, the NDBE has released these documents for grade 12 technical sciences. They are available on the NDBE website, but for your convenience, they are also available on this website.

For examination guidelines, click here.

For exemplar papers, click here. The papers are saved in the sub-folder called National Exemplars.

Monday, 22 May 2017

Correction: Examination guidelines for grade 12

Recently it was discovered that the 2017 national examination guidelines for grade 12 are not correct. Please revert back to the previous version (2014). It is available under "Pages" (see left) and then "Examinations: Examination Guidelines and Diagnostic Reports". Click here to go there directly.

Sunday, 12 March 2017

2017 edition of examination guidelines for grade 12 is available

The 2017 edition of the grade 12 examination guidelines are available. Click here to go to the page where you can download them.

Tuesday, 21 June 2016

Official NDBE examination guidelines for grades 10 and 11 are available

The official examination guidelines from the National Department of Basic Education for grades 10 and 11 for physical sciences are available now. Free State teachers are familiar with these documents, but please discard all previous and other copies you may have. Go to this page to download your personal copies.

Wednesday, 6 April 2016

Update: Grades 11 and 10 Examination Guidelines

This post originally appeared on 1 April and since then the grade 10 documents were made available. Please deal with it as described below for grade 11. 

Yesterday, 31 March, I have published a post about an update of the grade 11 Examination Guideline. No information accompanied the email to which the Examination Guideline was attached to, but today I have learned that the document, which is now a national document, is actually available for comments.

In view of this, please help us with the following:

As the NDBE has invited comments, please scrutinise the document and email your comments to your subject adviser by 9 April 2016. This is your opportunity to make an input that may affect the requirements for national papers, etc. Comment on the following aspects for example.
  • Is there anything you need more clarity on?
  • What should be removed?
  • Are there aspects you want to be included?
  • Are there any errors in the document?
Visit this page (link not available anymore) to download your copy for the comments. The only differences, which are highlighted in yellow, between this document and the Free State version that you have used since last year, affect issues such as punctuation, formatting, etc.; nothing in terms of learning content and expectations. 

The Free State versions of the documents of last year are still available here (link not available anymore).

Tuesday, 19 January 2016

Wednesday, 28 October 2015

Grade 12 examination papers for revision

A few colleagues in the country made available their September examination papers for grade 12. Learners can benefit a lot by working through these papers during their preparations for the final examinations of November 2015.

Except in the case of the Free State, Afrikaans copies are not available unfortunately. If there are colleagues who can assist us with Afrikaans copies, please email them to the webmaster. Email address is on the home page - to the left.

Another useful set of papers is those of June-July 2015. These papers were used for the supplementary examinations for private candidates in June/July, but the papers are CAPS oriented and can be used by the grade 12 learners. If there is any doubt whether a question is included in the grade 12 (school) examination, consult your examination guidelines.

Eastern Cape papers
Free State papers
Gauteng papers
North-West papers
Western Cape papers
June-July 2015

Thursday, 24 September 2015

November Examinations for Physical Sciences: Grades 10 and 11

Remember that it is compulsory for ALL Free State schools to write the grade 10 and 11 national common examination papers in November 2015. 

The national circular dealing with these examinations are available now. Click here to download it (pdf file 1,7 MB); there is important information you need to be aware of. Annexure B in the circular is for the attention of the districts and province. Principals have to complete Annexure A.

Click here to read the previous post of 7 September on this blog about these examinations. The following important issues are dealt with:
  • The dates of the examinations;
  • Learners must have the examination guidelines; and
  • All topics must be completed.

Monday, 7 September 2015

November Examinations for Physical Sciences: Grades 10 and 11

Important reminder and change of date

The above-mentioned examinations were originally scheduled for 27 and 30 November 2015. These dates have changed in the mean time. The latest arrangements are as follows:

ALL Free State schools have to write the grade 10 and 11 national papers in November 2015. The final dates are as follows:

  • Grade 10 P1: 13 November
  • Grade 10 P2: 18 November
  • Grade 11 P1: 12 November
  • Grade 11 P2: 16 November
It is very important that learners have the examination guidelines for these grades. They were distributed some time ago, but it is still available by clicking here. Teachers must ensure that the relevant content sections are copied for learners.

Monday, 10 August 2015

Examination guidelines are available for grades 10 and 11

Examination guidelines are available for grades 10 and 11. Click here to go to the page where you find the links to download the guidelines.
  • These guidelines outline the content for the final examinations in November.
  • It is especially useful to learners because all terms, definitions, etc. are included. Duplicate copies for learners where possible, but they are welcome to download it to their phones, tablets and/or computers as well.
  • Collect hard copies at the end of the year in order to use it next year.

Sunday, 24 August 2014

Examination Guidelines for Learners

Teachers were supposed to give this document to learners earlier this year, but here another copy marked New item.