How we got there
Read this like a teacher at the board. We go slowly, name every number, and say why we take each step.
Explain in another language · 11
1. What is the question asking?
Read the question twice. Circle the unknown. Underline every number and unit. The paper is asking: Mondeling, Graad 11. Voorbereide toespraak. Jy het nog een minuut en jy is steeds by die inleiding. Wat sny jy?
In other words — as if you have never seen this before
If you have never seen this before: Die middeldeel dra die punte. Die inleiding is een of twee sinne. Die slot is een sin wat na die onderwerp terugkeer. We will name a method in words, write the formula with no numbers, then substitute one line at a time.
2. What do we already know?
Voorbereide toespraak. Tyd is deel van die punt.
3. Which method — and why this one?
Die middeldeel dra die punte. Die inleiding is een of twee sinne. Die slot is een sin wat na die onderwerp terugkeer.
4. Step-by-step working
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Punt
Drie punte is beplan. Jy het die tyd op punt een gebruik.
tydWhy this step: We only do one job per line so a marker can follow the marks — and so you can find a slip without starting over.
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Pas die reël toe
Sê punt twee en punt drie in elk een sin. Dan die slot wat jy ingeoefen het.
voltooi die punteWhy this step: We only do one job per line so a marker can follow the marks — and so you can find a slip without starting over.
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Kontroleer
Moenie vinnig lees nie. Wag ’n oomblik. Oogkontak klop ’n perfekte sin wat jy nooit bereik nie.
kontakWhy this step: We only do one job per line so a marker can follow the marks — and so you can find a slip without starting over.
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Step G — Sense-check the size
Ask: is this the kind of number a Grade 10–12 paper would want? A speed of 3 000 ms for a learner walking, or a probability bigger than 1, means a unit or algebra slip. Estimate first: round the numbers and do the sum in your head.
Why this step: Markers write ‘unrealistic’ in the margin when the method is right but the size is wild. A 10-second head check often finds a missing 10² or a unit that never changed.
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Step F — Box the answer with its unit
Voltooi die oorblywende punte kortliks en sluit af. Moenie die inleiding oor begin nie.
Why this step: A number without a unit is half a mark on a Physics paper, and a marker can miss a Maths answer that is buried in working.
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Step H — What the marker is looking for
On an NSC memo you usually earn: (1) a method mark for naming the right formula or idea in words, (2) an accuracy mark for substituting the given numbers with units, (3) an accuracy mark for the boxed answer with its unit. Write those three lines even if you are unsure of the arithmetic — blank pages score zero.
Why this step: First-timers chase the final number and leave the method blank. The memo still pays out for the idea and the substitution even when the last line is wrong.
5. The answer
Voltooi die oorblywende punte kortliks en sluit af. Moenie die inleiding oor begin nie.
6. Check it like a marker
Om die hele bladsy fluisterend te lees, sonder ’n slot, kos meer punte as ’n korter toespraak wat klaarmaak.
7. A trap first-timers fall into
First-timers often grab the first formula they remember, mix units (cm with m, minutes with seconds), or drop a minus sign. Write the formula in words first: “this equals that, because…”