Revision Book for Physics 2026

The 2026 edition of the usual book with questions and numerical answers for grade 12 learners (with examinable topics of grade 11) is now available. 

Until and including 2023, these books were generally referred to as "Terms & Definitions" (Afrikaans: "Terme & Definisies"). From 2024, the title changed to "Revision Books" (Afrikaans: "Hersieningsboeke"). 

Enjoy working through all the questions and sharpen your ability to solve questions. It is very important to practise problem-solving skills.

Congratulations Grade 12 results - 2022

Congratulations to all our teachers and learners with their good grade 12 results of 2022. Free State achieved the best overall results in the country with a pass percentage of 88,5%.

The pass percentages for our subjects were:

• Physical sciences: 80,6% for second place in South Africa.
• Technical sciences: 97,0% for first place in South Africa.

Teachers and learners, thank you for your hard work. Well done!

Tips and Tricks for Examination Success

It is almost time for the September (and November) examinations for our grade 12 learners. Here are four booklets with tips and tricks to get the most out of your performance. Grade 10 and 11 learners will also benefit by reading the general issues.

Use the links below the picture to download your own copy of this.

Tips & Tricks for Physical Science in Afrikaans
Tips & Tricks for Physical Science in English

Tips & Tricks for Technical Science in Afrikaans
Tips & Tricks for Technical Science in English

Quantitative Error Analyses: 2022 June Examination Grade 12

 The quantitative error analyses for the grade 12 June examination are available. You will find it under "Pages" and then go to "Error analysis (Quantitative)" or click here. Follow the further links.

Teachers can use this data to identify areas to focus on for the final preparations for these learners.

Are you ready for the Siyavula challenge?

Are you ready for the Siyavula Challenge?

Click here and click here for full details!

Enjoy!!

Correction of Printing Error

On page 62 of the Terms & Definitions for grade 12 (P2) was a typing error. Learners should correct the typing error in their books. The e-version on this website is correct. It is available here. Follow links from there to the sub-folder "Terms & Definitions". Refer to the pictures below for more detail.

  

How to use Siyavula

The staff at Siyavula has prepared posters to make it easy for teachers how to use the Siyavula resources. The first three posters look like this and below the pictures are links that you can use to download A4 size posters for youself.

Poster 1

Poster 2

Poster 3

Online Teaching and Resources

The universities of Cape Town and Stellenbosch offer online support material and other services to high school learners and teachers. Click the links below to go to the two websites for more information.

https://www.uctonlinehighschool.com/

https://www.suadvantage.co.za/

November 2021 NSC Exam's Marking Guidelines

DBE has recently published the marking guidelines of the above-mentioned examination papers. Hence, it is also available on this website, or on the DBE website where other subjects are also available.

Updated Info from Dr Angela Stott

Do not miss out on all the wonderful opportunities, activities, training and teaching offered by Dr Angela Stott.

Click here to access all the updated information, and follow the links from there (scroll down) to access all the other information.

Dr Stott - you are a star!

Thank you on behalf of all the teachers and learners!

More Generous Grading in the 2022 Examinations

An interesting article about more generous grading of the 2022 examinations in the UK has appeared on https://www.bbc.com/news/education-60241364.

The similarities between the UK Covid problems and what we have experienced locally is nice reading material. Note the fact that marks awarded by teachers at the end of 2020 and 2021 were substantially higher than the normal results obtained in the case of examinations. 

The fact that learners wrote the usual national examinations in South Africa in grade 12 was actually a good decision to avoid large statistical discrepancies between the marks of different years.

This shows how important it is to make learners aware that SBA marks are very important to help them. Even tasks such as informal tests, that do not count for SBA, are important to prepare them for those tasks that DO count for the SBA. The value of practical work is very high. Therefore, it should NEVER be neglected.

A pdf copy of the article is available here.

Diagnostic Report of the November 2021 NSC Examination

The above-mentioned report has appeared on the DBE website.

 
Parts one and three deal with Physical Science and Technical Science respectively. Teachers are invited to download and scrutinise these reports. A few sets of additional and alternative information will be available that compliments the information of the Free State marking reports. The latter refers specifically to data that has been obtained from Free State learners. The Diagnostic Report refers to data obtained nationally. Click here to go to the page where you can download them.

Part two (languages) of the Diagnostic Report can be downloaded from the DBE Website. Currently, it is available under "Resources" and then "Reports".

Study Guides of DBE

Remember that DBE has developed a set of study guides for Physical and Technical Sciences (and other subjects). They are available on the DBE website at

https://www.education.gov.za/SelfStudyGuidesGrade10-12.aspx

Some of these documents have already been loaded on the hard drives distributed to schools. Others can be downloaded with the above-mentioned link.

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.

Matric Results of 2021

Well done teachers, learners, and everybody

involved with the good results

of the Free State.

Best Wishes: Grade 12

On behalf of the Free State Department of Education and the full team of subject advisers, we want to wish our grade 12 learners and their teachers all of the best with their final preparations for their examinations tomorrow, 12 November, and Monday, 15 November 2021.

Stay calm, prepare well, and do your utmost best!

Exerce Perfectioni

FutureMe Resources

Here is a short invitation from Jodee Sylvester from FutureMe.

Good day Educator(s) ✨

Hope you are well.

For the next 2 months we’ll be shining a light on the world of science, tech, and design. Your learners can join @futuremeza on Instagram Live every Thursday at 5 o’clock, when we’ll be exploring career paths and tackling workplace skills with industry experts.

Attached is a schedule (click here to access it) of all the upcoming IG Live events, please share with your learners if possible.

Learners can also participate in the Journey of Self-Discovery (Free personality & MB10 Interest assessments and they will get a custom STEAM career booklet each)…Link on the flyer!

We are aware that it’s examination time, and we want to wish you and your learners all the best! 🌟

Kind Regards,
Jodee Sylvester

Dr Angela is helping!

Do not miss this opportunity! Dr Angela Stott can help you. 

Here is her message.

Matric Physical Sciences: 😵‍💫 Remember last year's difficult Work, Energy, Power question? 😖

👩🏻‍🏫 Explained here for you and used as an opportunity to clarify concepts about Force, Work, Energy and Power, the Work-energy theorem, and the 🔄 relationships between these concepts.🧩

1️⃣: Types of force, Kinetic energy, Work done by non-conservative forces: https://youtu.be/2oiHSzSsPzE

 2️⃣: Power calculation with Force focus: https://youtu.be/YLG46X2R6OY

 3️⃣: Power calculation with Energy focus: https://youtu.be/2zGQXH7ILrs

Full P1 PS matric exam prep playlist:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWQ2SVe978FxRCqBZ2now_HHXBIWfUr7W

Full P2 matric P2 PS matric exam prep playlist:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWQ2SVe978Fx8t8IRU3D27tSaNGA6DbQD

Thank you for helping our learners, Dr Stott.
Click here to read another post about support by Dr Stott.

Woza Matrics and Tswelopele: Don't Forget to Use

Learners in grades 10 to 12 should not forget about these resources to help them with their preparation for examinations.

Tswelopele

Tswelopele has resources for grades 10 to 12
(in fact from grade R).


Click here to download this flyer. In the flyer are links to click to go further.

Woza Matrics

Click here to download this flyer. In the flyer are links to click to go further.


A previous post about Woza Matrics is available here. From there follow links to older posts for more information.

*** Enjoy and all our best wishes! ***

Community Radio Station Broadcasts for Grade 12

The community radio stations in the Free State will once again broadcast programmes to support our grade 12 learners with their examination preparation. This information appeared on this site for the first time on 5 October. Please note that the second broadcast slot has changed since 5 October. For Physical and Technical Sciences, the dates and broadcast slots are now as follows:

Learners, ensure you listen to these valuable hints, tips, etc.

The stations involved are: Rock FM, CUT FM, Metsimahole FM, Motheo FM, Setsoto FM, QwaQwa Radio, Mosupatsela FM & Dihlabeng FM.

The complete schedule for all subjects is available here.

*** Update ***

These broadcasts will also be streamed on the Free State Digital Learning Facebook platform.

We thank all the presenters for their time in doing this.