Grade 12 — Mathematics

Mathematics in the CAPS curriculum is a cumulative subject: each year builds directly on the last, and each term's work feeds into the next. The resources below are organised the same way your school year is — by term — so you can revise exactly what will be assessed next. Term cards contain full tests and examinations with their memorandums; topic cards collect papers and worksheets that focus on one area of the curriculum.

The most effective way to use this page is simple. Before a test or exam, open the matching term card, download a paper, and write it under timed conditions without looking at the memo. Then mark yourself honestly, identify the question types you lost marks on, and redo those questions a few days later. Learners who repeat this cycle three or four times before an exam consistently outperform those who only read through notes.

Grade 12 is the NSC (matric) year. The final examinations in October/November are nationally set and externally marked, and the results determine university admission through APS scores. The Grade 12 curriculum adds calculus, sequences and series, and inverse functions on top of everything from Grades 10 and 11 — roughly a third of the final papers examine work from earlier grades, which is why revising Grade 11 trigonometry and geometry is part of every good matric study plan. This page carries past NSC papers, provincial trial (prelim) papers and memorandums. See the full Grade 12 curriculum guide →