Practice paper 2 — Grade 12 Business Studies (Easified, CAPS-aligned)
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180 min · 68 Marks · 24 questions
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Business Studies Grade 12. Use this case. Mdantsane couch credit. A furniture store in Mdantsane offers a couch for R6 000 cash or R450 a month and never shows the total interest. The buyer hears only the monthly amount. The National Credit Act requires the cost of credit to be clear before signing, and reckless credit is not allowed. The CPA would matter if the couch itself was not as promised. Hiding the full cost of the loan is an NCA problem, not a CPA one. In sentences, say what Legislation is doing here, from the situation to the result.
Legislation
Notes: At a Bloemfontein till the clock shows a 48-hour week and the payslip still shows only the normal rate.
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: Business Studies Grade 12. Use this case. Mdantsane couch credit. A furniture store in Mdantsane offers a couch for R6 000 cash or R450 a month and never shows the total interest. The buyer hears only the monthly amount. The National Credit Act requires the cost of credit to be clear before signing, and reckless credit is not allowed. The CPA would matter if the couch itself was not as promised. Hiding the full cost of the loan is an NCA problem, not a CPA one. In sentences, say what Legislation is doing here, from the situation to the result.
In other words — as if you have never seen this before
Legislation. The BCEA sets basic conditions such as the ordinary 45-hour week, overtime pay and leave. The LRA covers fair dismissal, unions and disputes, the Employment Equity Act covers fair treatment and redress at work, and skills-development law supports training through levies and learnerships. COIDA deals with compensation when a worker is injured on the job. The CPA protects buyers against unfair or faulty sales, and the NCA protects borrowers, including a duty to show the full cost of credit.
2. What do we already know?
At a Bloemfontein till the clock shows a 48-hour week and the payslip still shows only the normal rate.
3. Which method — and why this one?
Legislation. The BCEA sets basic conditions such as the ordinary 45-hour week, overtime pay and leave. The LRA covers fair dismissal, unions and disputes, the Employment Equity Act covers fair treatment and redress at work, and skills-development law supports training through levies and learnerships. COIDA deals with compensation when a worker is injured on the job. The CPA protects buyers against unfair or faulty sales, and the NCA protects borrowers, including a duty to show the full cost of credit.
4. Step-by-step working
01 / 07
What it is
Labour and consumer laws, including the BCEA, LRA, Employment Equity Act, skills-development law, COIDA, CPA and NCA, set duties a business must meet.
Why 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.
02 / 07
How it works
The BCEA sets basic conditions such as the ordinary 45-hour week, overtime pay and leave. The LRA covers fair dismissal, unions and disputes, the Employment Equity Act covers fair treatment and redress at work, and skills-development law supports training through levies and learnerships. COIDA deals with compensation when a worker is injured on the job. The CPA protects buyers against unfair or faulty sales, and the NCA protects borrowers, including a duty to show the full cost of credit.
Why 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.
03 / 07
Worked theory
Worked theory. Palesa, a cashier at a supermarket in Bloemfontein, works 48 hours in one week. The ordinary week under the BCEA is 45 hours, so the extra 3 hours are weekday overtime. She is paid only her normal rate. If her rate is R30 an hour, those 3 hours at one and a half times should add R135, not R90. Asking for the extra hours can be lawful. Not paying the overtime rate is a breach of the BCEA, and if the employer will not fix the payslip she can take the dispute along the LRA path to the CCMA.
Why 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.
04 / 07
Say it back
The BCEA sets hours and overtime, and the other Acts cover dismissal, equity, training, injury, buyers and credit.
Why 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.
05 / 07
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.
06 / 07
Step F — Box the answer with its unit
The BCEA sets hours and overtime, and the other Acts cover dismissal, equity, training, injury, buyers and credit.
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.
07 / 07
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
The BCEA sets hours and overtime, and the other Acts cover dismissal, equity, training, injury, buyers and credit.
Copy onto your answer sheet — in this order
Answer: The BCEA sets hours and overtime, and the other Acts cover dismissal, equity, training, injury, buyers and credit.
6. Check it like a marker
The answer names the situation, what changed, and the result. It does not stop at a heading.
7. A trap first-timers fall into
A common mix-up is using the CPA to claim overtime, when the CPA protects buyers and the BCEA protects basic working conditions.
2 · 4 Marks · Human resources function
Business Studies Grade 12. Use this case. Welkom oven swap. A bakery in Welkom needs a delivery driver and hires a man who applied for that job. When the night baker falls ill, the new driver is placed on the oven with no training. He burns a batch worth about R800. Placement means matching the person to the job they were selected for. Using him as a baker without induction breaks that match, even though a contract exists. In sentences, say what Human resources function is doing here, from the situation to the result.
Human resources function
Notes: A hardware till in Polokwane on a new cashier's first morning still has no one standing beside it.
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: Business Studies Grade 12. Use this case. Welkom oven swap. A bakery in Welkom needs a delivery driver and hires a man who applied for that job. When the night baker falls ill, the new driver is placed on the oven with no training. He burns a batch worth about R800. Placement means matching the person to the job they were selected for. Using him as a baker without induction breaks that match, even though a contract exists. In sentences, say what Human resources function is doing here, from the situation to the result.
In other words — as if you have never seen this before
Human resources function. Recruitment finds applicants, and selection chooses among them using criteria that match the real job. Induction teaches the new person the rules, the people and the tasks before they are left alone. Placement puts them in the role they were hired for, with the tools and a supervisor. The employment contract records pay, hours and duties so both sides share one version of the deal, but a signature without induction still leaves a person who cannot do the work.
2. What do we already know?
A hardware till in Polokwane on a new cashier's first morning still has no one standing beside it.
3. Which method — and why this one?
Human resources function. Recruitment finds applicants, and selection chooses among them using criteria that match the real job. Induction teaches the new person the rules, the people and the tasks before they are left alone. Placement puts them in the role they were hired for, with the tools and a supervisor. The employment contract records pay, hours and duties so both sides share one version of the deal, but a signature without induction still leaves a person who cannot do the work.
4. Step-by-step working
01 / 07
What it is
Human resources brings people in through recruitment and selection, then settles them with induction, placement and an employment contract.
Why 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.
02 / 07
How it works
Recruitment finds applicants, and selection chooses among them using criteria that match the real job. Induction teaches the new person the rules, the people and the tasks before they are left alone. Placement puts them in the role they were hired for, with the tools and a supervisor. The employment contract records pay, hours and duties so both sides share one version of the deal, but a signature without induction still leaves a person who cannot do the work.
Why 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.
03 / 07
Worked theory
Worked theory. A hardware store in Polokwane hires Lerato as a cashier on a Monday. She signs a contract for R6 500 a month and 45 hours a week, so recruitment, selection and the contract have happened. Nobody shows her the till, the returns book, or who to call when the float is short. On Tuesday she rings a R900 sale as R90. The gap is induction and proper placement, not the decision to hire. An hour on the till with a supervisor beside her for the first shift is the missing human-resources step.
Why 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.
04 / 07
Say it back
Hiring is not finished until induction, placement and a clear contract have all happened.
Why 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.
05 / 07
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.
06 / 07
Step F — Box the answer with its unit
Hiring is not finished until induction, placement and a clear contract have all happened.
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.
07 / 07
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
Hiring is not finished until induction, placement and a clear contract have all happened.
Copy onto your answer sheet — in this order
Answer: Hiring is not finished until induction, placement and a clear contract have all happened.
6. Check it like a marker
The answer names the situation, what changed, and the result. It does not stop at a heading.
7. A trap first-timers fall into
A common mix-up is thinking recruitment and selection are the same step, when recruitment attracts people and selection chooses among them.
3 · 4 Marks · Ethics and professionalism
Business Studies Grade 12. Use this case. Mangaung tender envelope. A building firm in Mangaung is told a tender will go smoothly if an envelope of R10 000 reaches an official. Paying would be bribery, even if the firm's brickwork is excellent. The firm refuses and keeps a record of the request. Reporting that request to the proper authority is whistle-blowing. A code that only says be nice is too vague, because it never names cash for contracts as forbidden. In sentences, say what Ethics and professionalism is doing here, from the situation to the result.
Ethics and professionalism
Notes: A hamper arrives at a Tshwane home in the same week a hospital canteen signs its meat contract.
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: Business Studies Grade 12. Use this case. Mangaung tender envelope. A building firm in Mangaung is told a tender will go smoothly if an envelope of R10 000 reaches an official. Paying would be bribery, even if the firm's brickwork is excellent. The firm refuses and keeps a record of the request. Reporting that request to the proper authority is whistle-blowing. A code that only says be nice is too vague, because it never names cash for contracts as forbidden. In sentences, say what Ethics and professionalism is doing here, from the situation to the result.
In other words — as if you have never seen this before
Ethics and professionalism. The code states what the business counts as right, including gifts, honesty and conflicts of interest. Bribery is money or a gift given so that someone with power chooses unfairly. Whistle-blowing is reporting that wrongdoing through a proper channel, and the law protects a genuine whistle-blower from being punished for the report. Unprofessional behaviour is a poor work standard, such as a late return, while unethical behaviour is morally wrong, such as taking a bribe, so a person can be sloppy without being corrupt and a polished person can still be unethical.
2. What do we already know?
A hamper arrives at a Tshwane home in the same week a hospital canteen signs its meat contract.
3. Which method — and why this one?
Ethics and professionalism. The code states what the business counts as right, including gifts, honesty and conflicts of interest. Bribery is money or a gift given so that someone with power chooses unfairly. Whistle-blowing is reporting that wrongdoing through a proper channel, and the law protects a genuine whistle-blower from being punished for the report. Unprofessional behaviour is a poor work standard, such as a late return, while unethical behaviour is morally wrong, such as taking a bribe, so a person can be sloppy without being corrupt and a polished person can still be unethical.
4. Step-by-step working
01 / 07
What it is
A code of ethics forbids bribery and protects genuine whistle-blowing, and unethical conduct is not the same thing as merely unprofessional conduct.
Why 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.
02 / 07
How it works
The code states what the business counts as right, including gifts, honesty and conflicts of interest. Bribery is money or a gift given so that someone with power chooses unfairly. Whistle-blowing is reporting that wrongdoing through a proper channel, and the law protects a genuine whistle-blower from being punished for the report. Unprofessional behaviour is a poor work standard, such as a late return, while unethical behaviour is morally wrong, such as taking a bribe, so a person can be sloppy without being corrupt and a polished person can still be unethical.
Why 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.
03 / 07
Worked theory
Worked theory. A buyer for a hospital canteen in Tshwane must choose a meat supplier. One supplier leaves a hamper worth about R1 500 at her house in the week of the decision and asks her to remember who looks after her. She awards that supplier the monthly contract even though another quote was R3 a kilogram cheaper. The hamper is a bribe, which a code of ethics forbids. A colleague who reports it on the hospital hotline is whistle-blowing, not gossip. Taking the hamper is unethical, not merely a clumsy way of working.
Why 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.
04 / 07
Say it back
A bribe buys an unfair decision, and reporting it through the right channel is whistle-blowing.
Why 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.
05 / 07
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.
06 / 07
Step F — Box the answer with its unit
A bribe buys an unfair decision, and reporting it through the right channel is whistle-blowing.
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.
07 / 07
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
A bribe buys an unfair decision, and reporting it through the right channel is whistle-blowing.
Copy onto your answer sheet — in this order
Answer: A bribe buys an unfair decision, and reporting it through the right channel is whistle-blowing.
6. Check it like a marker
The answer names the situation, what changed, and the result. It does not stop at a heading.
7. A trap first-timers fall into
A common mix-up is calling every mistake unethical, when a late invoice is unprofessional and a secret hamper for a contract is unethical.
4 · 4 Marks · Creative thinking
Business Studies Grade 12. Use this case. Polokwane route rounds. A taxi association in Polokwane asks five experienced owners, separately, whether a new route to a mall will pay. The first round disagrees. A summary goes back without names, and in the second round three owners shift once they see the others' cost figures. Those anonymous rounds are the Delphi technique. They are not a brainstorm in one room, and they are not a force-field diagram. In sentences, say what Creative thinking is doing here, from the situation to the result.
Creative thinking
Notes: At a hotel desk in Hazyview a page has two columns: reasons to run a Kruger shuttle and reasons not to.
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: Business Studies Grade 12. Use this case. Polokwane route rounds. A taxi association in Polokwane asks five experienced owners, separately, whether a new route to a mall will pay. The first round disagrees. A summary goes back without names, and in the second round three owners shift once they see the others' cost figures. Those anonymous rounds are the Delphi technique. They are not a brainstorm in one room, and they are not a force-field diagram. In sentences, say what Creative thinking is doing here, from the situation to the result.
In other words — as if you have never seen this before
Creative thinking. Brainstorming collects many ideas and holds judgment back at the start, while nominal group technique has each person write ideas alone before the group scores them, so the loudest voice does not automatically win. Delphi asks experts in rounds, often without names, and feeds summaries back until the views settle. Force-field analysis lists drivers that push a change and resistors that block it, then asks which forces can be strengthened or weakened. The technique has to match the job, because a list of forces is not the same as a free shout of ideas.
2. What do we already know?
At a hotel desk in Hazyview a page has two columns: reasons to run a Kruger shuttle and reasons not to.
3. Which method — and why this one?
Creative thinking. Brainstorming collects many ideas and holds judgment back at the start, while nominal group technique has each person write ideas alone before the group scores them, so the loudest voice does not automatically win. Delphi asks experts in rounds, often without names, and feeds summaries back until the views settle. Force-field analysis lists drivers that push a change and resistors that block it, then asks which forces can be strengthened or weakened. The technique has to match the job, because a list of forces is not the same as a free shout of ideas.
4. Step-by-step working
01 / 07
What it is
Force-field analysis, the Delphi technique, the nominal group technique and brainstorming are structured ways to think, not motivational slogans.
Why 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.
02 / 07
How it works
Brainstorming collects many ideas and holds judgment back at the start, while nominal group technique has each person write ideas alone before the group scores them, so the loudest voice does not automatically win. Delphi asks experts in rounds, often without names, and feeds summaries back until the views settle. Force-field analysis lists drivers that push a change and resistors that block it, then asks which forces can be strengthened or weakened. The technique has to match the job, because a list of forces is not the same as a free shout of ideas.
Why 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.
03 / 07
Worked theory
Worked theory. A hotel in Hazyview is deciding whether to add a shuttle to the Kruger gate, and it uses force-field analysis rather than a slogan. Drivers include guest requests, a rival lodge that already fetches people, and about R8 000 a month in extra room nights if guests stay because of the lift. Resistors include the cost of a minibus, a driver's wage of about R6 000, and insurance. The manager strengthens a driver by sharing the shuttle with a neighbouring lodge, which weakens the cost resistor. They run the shuttle three mornings a week. Brainstorming would only have produced the word shuttle, while force-field showed whether the drivers beat the resistors.
Why 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.
04 / 07
Say it back
Force-field weighs drivers against resistors, while Delphi, nominal group and brainstorming gather ideas in different ways.
Why 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.
05 / 07
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.
06 / 07
Step F — Box the answer with its unit
Force-field weighs drivers against resistors, while Delphi, nominal group and brainstorming gather ideas in different ways.
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.
07 / 07
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
Force-field weighs drivers against resistors, while Delphi, nominal group and brainstorming gather ideas in different ways.
Copy onto your answer sheet — in this order
Answer: Force-field weighs drivers against resistors, while Delphi, nominal group and brainstorming gather ideas in different ways.
6. Check it like a marker
The answer names the situation, what changed, and the result. It does not stop at a heading.
7. A trap first-timers fall into
A common mix-up is treating brainstorming and force-field analysis as the same technique, when one generates ideas and the other weighs forces for and against a change.
5 · 4 Marks · Business strategies
Business Studies Grade 12. Use this case. Stellenbosch farm-gate stall. A cellar in Stellenbosch has always sold its bottles through shops in Cape Town. It then opens a tasting stall at the farm gate and sells straight to visitors. That move is forward vertical integration, because the producer took the next step and started selling. It is not penetration of the city shops it already supplied. The wine is the same, but the strategy is about owning the step closer to the drinker. In sentences, say what Business strategies is doing here, from the situation to the result.
Business strategies
Notes: A Mamelodi takeaway counter and the broiler houses behind it now belong to the same owner.
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: Business Studies Grade 12. Use this case. Stellenbosch farm-gate stall. A cellar in Stellenbosch has always sold its bottles through shops in Cape Town. It then opens a tasting stall at the farm gate and sells straight to visitors. That move is forward vertical integration, because the producer took the next step and started selling. It is not penetration of the city shops it already supplied. The wine is the same, but the strategy is about owning the step closer to the drinker. In sentences, say what Business strategies is doing here, from the situation to the result.
In other words — as if you have never seen this before
Business strategies. Backward vertical integration buys a supplier, forward vertical integration buys a distributor or shop, and horizontal integration joins a competitor at the same stage. Intensive strategies keep growing: market penetration sells more of the current product in the current market, market development takes the same product to new customers or a new place, and product development makes a new product for current customers. Defensive strategies shrink the business. Divestiture sells off a part, while liquidation closes the whole business and sells the assets.
2. What do we already know?
A Mamelodi takeaway counter and the broiler houses behind it now belong to the same owner.
3. Which method — and why this one?
Business strategies. Backward vertical integration buys a supplier, forward vertical integration buys a distributor or shop, and horizontal integration joins a competitor at the same stage. Intensive strategies keep growing: market penetration sells more of the current product in the current market, market development takes the same product to new customers or a new place, and product development makes a new product for current customers. Defensive strategies shrink the business. Divestiture sells off a part, while liquidation closes the whole business and sells the assets.
4. Step-by-step working
01 / 07
What it is
Strategy choices include integration, intensive growth and defensive moves: buying along the chain, selling more or something new, or cutting back.
Why 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.
02 / 07
How it works
Backward vertical integration buys a supplier, forward vertical integration buys a distributor or shop, and horizontal integration joins a competitor at the same stage. Intensive strategies keep growing: market penetration sells more of the current product in the current market, market development takes the same product to new customers or a new place, and product development makes a new product for current customers. Defensive strategies shrink the business. Divestiture sells off a part, while liquidation closes the whole business and sells the assets.
Why 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.
03 / 07
Worked theory
Worked theory. A chicken takeaway in Mamelodi buys the small broiler farm that supplies its birds. That purchase is backward vertical integration, because the business moved back down the chain to its supplier. Opening a second takeaway two suburbs away, still selling the same quarter chicken and chips, is market penetration, not integration. The farm changes control of inputs. The second shop tries to sell more of the same meal in the same kind of market. If that second shop later fails and is sold while the first stays open, the sale is divestiture, not liquidation of the whole business.
Why 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.
04 / 07
Say it back
Backward integration buys the supplier, and a second shop selling the same meal is market penetration.
Why 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.
05 / 07
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.
06 / 07
Step F — Box the answer with its unit
Backward integration buys the supplier, and a second shop selling the same meal is market penetration.
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.
07 / 07
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
Backward integration buys the supplier, and a second shop selling the same meal is market penetration.
Copy onto your answer sheet — in this order
Answer: Backward integration buys the supplier, and a second shop selling the same meal is market penetration.
6. Check it like a marker
The answer names the situation, what changed, and the result. It does not stop at a heading.
7. A trap first-timers fall into
A common mix-up is calling a second branch vertical integration, when vertical means moving up or down the supply chain, not opening another outlet of the same shop.
6 · 8 Marks · Human rights, inclusivity and environment
Business Studies Grade 12. Use this case. Centurion chat role. A call centre in Centurion advertises that everyone is welcome, then refuses an interview to a deaf applicant for a support role done entirely on text chat. The job does not need a voice. Excluding her fails inclusivity and equal treatment. Human rights in this case sit in the hiring decision, not in a ramp. The advert said one thing and the interview list did another. In sentences, say what Human rights, inclusivity and environment is doing here, from the situation to the result.
Human rights, inclusivity and environment
Notes: Three concrete steps at an Alexandra clinic pharmacy stop a wheelchair at the bottom.
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: Business Studies Grade 12. Use this case. Centurion chat role. A call centre in Centurion advertises that everyone is welcome, then refuses an interview to a deaf applicant for a support role done entirely on text chat. The job does not need a voice. Excluding her fails inclusivity and equal treatment. Human rights in this case sit in the hiring decision, not in a ramp. The advert said one thing and the interview list did another. In sentences, say what Human rights, inclusivity and environment is doing here, from the situation to the result.
In other words — as if you have never seen this before
Human rights, inclusivity and environment. Human rights in a business setting include dignity, equality and access, so a person is not shut out because of disability, language or gender. Inclusivity means designing the service so more people can use it, not only saying they are welcome. Environmental responsibility means limiting the business's own dumping, waste and pollution even when a dirtier option is cheaper. A poster does not count if the building, the hiring or the waste pile contradicts it.
2. What do we already know?
Three concrete steps at an Alexandra clinic pharmacy stop a wheelchair at the bottom.
3. Which method — and why this one?
Human rights, inclusivity and environment. Human rights in a business setting include dignity, equality and access, so a person is not shut out because of disability, language or gender. Inclusivity means designing the service so more people can use it, not only saying they are welcome. Environmental responsibility means limiting the business's own dumping, waste and pollution even when a dirtier option is cheaper. A poster does not count if the building, the hiring or the waste pile contradicts it.
4. Step-by-step working
01 / 07
What it is
Businesses have to respect human rights, practise inclusivity, and take responsibility for environmental harm in how they actually operate.
Why 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.
02 / 07
How it works
Human rights in a business setting include dignity, equality and access, so a person is not shut out because of disability, language or gender. Inclusivity means designing the service so more people can use it, not only saying they are welcome. Environmental responsibility means limiting the business's own dumping, waste and pollution even when a dirtier option is cheaper. A poster does not count if the building, the hiring or the waste pile contradicts it.
Why 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.
03 / 07
Worked theory
Worked theory. A clinic pharmacy in Alexandra has a three-step entrance and no ramp. Dlamini, a wheelchair user, cannot collect his medicine himself and has to ask a stranger to climb the steps. The pharmacy serves the public, and the steps exclude him before any pharmacist speaks. Inclusivity and the right of access fail at the door. A portable ramp costing a few thousand rand would let him enter on his own. The right is not a poster about caring. It is a door he can use.
Why 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.
04 / 07
Say it back
Rights and inclusivity are tested at the door, the counter and the waste bin, not on a poster.
Why 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.
05 / 07
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.
06 / 07
Step F — Box the answer with its unit
Rights and inclusivity are tested at the door, the counter and the waste bin, not on a poster.
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.
07 / 07
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
Rights and inclusivity are tested at the door, the counter and the waste bin, not on a poster.
Copy onto your answer sheet — in this order
Answer: Rights and inclusivity are tested at the door, the counter and the waste bin, not on a poster.
6. Check it like a marker
The answer names the situation, what changed, and the result. It does not stop at a heading.
7. A trap first-timers fall into
A common mix-up is thinking environmental responsibility is only a weekend community project, when how the business dumps its own waste is already the duty.
7 · 4 Marks · Team performance and conflict
Business Studies Grade 12. Use this case. Durban Friday chip station. Three cooks on a Friday shift in Durban argue every week about who handles the chips. That argument is storming. The supervisor writes a norm: one person on chips, rotating each Friday, posted on the wall. Over the next three Fridays the argument shrinks and plates leave on time. They moved from storming through norming into performing, and the clash was not proof that a team cannot work. In sentences, say what Team performance and conflict is doing here, from the situation to the result.
Team performance and conflict
Notes: A Soweto classroom table holds one finished poster and a blank report the night before the work is due.
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: Business Studies Grade 12. Use this case. Durban Friday chip station. Three cooks on a Friday shift in Durban argue every week about who handles the chips. That argument is storming. The supervisor writes a norm: one person on chips, rotating each Friday, posted on the wall. Over the next three Fridays the argument shrinks and plates leave on time. They moved from storming through norming into performing, and the clash was not proof that a team cannot work. In sentences, say what Team performance and conflict is doing here, from the situation to the result.
In other words — as if you have never seen this before
Team performance and conflict. Forming is the polite start when roles are still unclear, and storming is the clash over who does what. Norming is the agreement on rules, and performing is the work actually getting done to those rules. A group can stick in storming if one person carries everything and another disappears. Conflict helps when it clarifies roles and harms when it becomes blame or silence, and without a norm performing does not start.
2. What do we already know?
A Soweto classroom table holds one finished poster and a blank report the night before the work is due.
3. Which method — and why this one?
Team performance and conflict. Forming is the polite start when roles are still unclear, and storming is the clash over who does what. Norming is the agreement on rules, and performing is the work actually getting done to those rules. A group can stick in storming if one person carries everything and another disappears. Conflict helps when it clarifies roles and harms when it becomes blame or silence, and without a norm performing does not start.
4. Step-by-step working
01 / 07
What it is
Teams often move through forming, storming, norming and performing, and unresolved conflict keeps them from getting the work done.
Why 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.
02 / 07
How it works
Forming is the polite start when roles are still unclear, and storming is the clash over who does what. Norming is the agreement on rules, and performing is the work actually getting done to those rules. A group can stick in storming if one person carries everything and another disappears. Conflict helps when it clarifies roles and harms when it becomes blame or silence, and without a norm performing does not start.
Why 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.
03 / 07
Worked theory
Worked theory. A Grade 12 Business Studies group at a high school in Soweto must hand in a poster and a written report on Friday. In forming they smile and say the work will be shared. In storming, Ayanda does the whole poster and Sipho stops answering messages. There is no norm about who writes, who draws, and what happens if someone vanishes. By Thursday the report is still blank, so they are not performing. A rule set on day one, that each person sends a section by Wednesday, would have caught the conflict while time remained.
Why 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.
04 / 07
Say it back
Forming, storming, norming, performing: without a shared rule the group stays stuck in the clash.
Why 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.
05 / 07
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.
06 / 07
Step F — Box the answer with its unit
Forming, storming, norming, performing: without a shared rule the group stays stuck in the clash.
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.
07 / 07
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
Forming, storming, norming, performing: without a shared rule the group stays stuck in the clash.
Copy onto your answer sheet — in this order
Answer: Forming, storming, norming, performing: without a shared rule the group stays stuck in the clash.
6. Check it like a marker
The answer names the situation, what changed, and the result. It does not stop at a heading.
7. A trap first-timers fall into
A common mix-up is thinking storming means the group has failed, when storming is a normal clash that norming is meant to settle.
8 · 4 Marks · Quality of performance
Business Studies Grade 12. Use this case. Mthatha file sheet. A clinic in Mthatha keeps finding that patient files are missing at the consultation room. Reception plans a rule that every file is logged out on a sheet, and the staff do it. After ten days the check shows files still vanish at lunch, when the sheet is ignored. They act by asking the security guard to hold the sheet over lunch. Quality of performance here is in administration, not in the pharmacy, and the standard only counted once someone checked whether it was kept. In sentences, say what Quality of performance is doing here, from the situation to the result.
Quality of performance
Notes: A Knysna guesthouse bathroom has a signed checklist hanging on the back of the door.
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: Business Studies Grade 12. Use this case. Mthatha file sheet. A clinic in Mthatha keeps finding that patient files are missing at the consultation room. Reception plans a rule that every file is logged out on a sheet, and the staff do it. After ten days the check shows files still vanish at lunch, when the sheet is ignored. They act by asking the security guard to hold the sheet over lunch. Quality of performance here is in administration, not in the pharmacy, and the standard only counted once someone checked whether it was kept. In sentences, say what Quality of performance is doing here, from the situation to the result.
In other words — as if you have never seen this before
Quality of performance. Total quality management treats quality as everyone's job, not only a glance at the end. PDCA is plan, do, check, act: plan sets the standard and the way to meet it, do carries the work out, check compares results with the standard, and act changes the process so the same fault does not repeat. A checklist nobody uses is not quality management. A checklist that is signed, reviewed after complaints, and then rewritten is PDCA.
2. What do we already know?
A Knysna guesthouse bathroom has a signed checklist hanging on the back of the door.
3. Which method — and why this one?
Quality of performance. Total quality management treats quality as everyone's job, not only a glance at the end. PDCA is plan, do, check, act: plan sets the standard and the way to meet it, do carries the work out, check compares results with the standard, and act changes the process so the same fault does not repeat. A checklist nobody uses is not quality management. A checklist that is signed, reviewed after complaints, and then rewritten is PDCA.
4. Step-by-step working
01 / 07
What it is
Quality of performance means each business function works to a standard, and total quality management uses the PDCA cycle to keep raising that standard.
Why 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.
02 / 07
How it works
Total quality management treats quality as everyone's job, not only a glance at the end. PDCA is plan, do, check, act: plan sets the standard and the way to meet it, do carries the work out, check compares results with the standard, and act changes the process so the same fault does not repeat. A checklist nobody uses is not quality management. A checklist that is signed, reviewed after complaints, and then rewritten is PDCA.
Why 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.
03 / 07
Worked theory
Worked theory. A guesthouse in Knysna receives three complaints about dirty bathrooms in one month. The standard was clean before arrival, but nobody checked it. The owner plans a checklist of basin, floor, towels and bin, signed by the housekeeper and glanced at by the manager. They do this for two weeks. The check shows one complaint instead of three, and the missed item was the bin. They act by moving the bin to the top of the list. That loop is PDCA, and quality of performance here sits in housekeeping, not in a speech at the front desk.
Why 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.
04 / 07
Say it back
PDCA means plan the standard, do the work, check the result, and act on what failed.
Why 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.
05 / 07
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.
06 / 07
Step F — Box the answer with its unit
PDCA means plan the standard, do the work, check the result, and act on what failed.
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.
07 / 07
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
PDCA means plan the standard, do the work, check the result, and act on what failed.
Copy onto your answer sheet — in this order
Answer: PDCA means plan the standard, do the work, check the result, and act on what failed.
6. Check it like a marker
The answer names the situation, what changed, and the result. It does not stop at a heading.
7. A trap first-timers fall into
A common mix-up is thinking quality is only a final inspection of a product, when total quality management asks every function to perform to a standard.
9 · 2 Marks · Legislation
What is the answer to keep for Legislation?
Legislation
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: What is the answer to keep for Legislation?
In other words — as if you have never seen this before
The BCEA sets hours and overtime, and the other Acts cover dismissal, equity, training, injury, buyers and credit.
2. What do we already know?
Copy these onto the left of your page, one per line, with units: every number and its unit in the sentence. Mixing cm with m, or minutes with seconds, loses a method mark.
3. Which method — and why this one?
The BCEA sets hours and overtime, and the other Acts cover dismissal, equity, training, injury, buyers and credit.
4. Step-by-step working
01 / 07
Step A — Read the question twice
Slow down. Circle the word that names the unknown. Underline every number and its unit. Do not grab a formula yet — first decide what the paper is actually asking.
Why this step: If you can say the method in a sentence, you will pick the right formula. First-timers skip this and grab the first equation they remember.
02 / 07
Step B — Write the given in a column
Copy these onto the left of your page, one per line, with units: every number and its unit in the sentence. Mixing cm with m, or minutes with seconds, loses a method mark.
Why this step: A column with units stops you mixing cm with m, or minutes with seconds. Markers can also see you started correctly.
03 / 07
Step C — Name the method in words
The BCEA sets hours and overtime, and the other Acts cover dismissal, equity, training, injury, buyers and credit.
Why this step: If you can say the method in a sentence, you will pick the right formula. First-timers skip this and grab the first equation they remember.
04 / 07
Working
The BCEA sets hours and overtime, and the other Acts cover dismissal, equity, training, injury, buyers and credit.
Why 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.
05 / 07
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.
06 / 07
Step F — Box the answer with its unit
The BCEA sets hours and overtime, and the other Acts cover dismissal, equity, training, injury, buyers and credit.
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.
07 / 07
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
The BCEA sets hours and overtime, and the other Acts cover dismissal, equity, training, injury, buyers and credit.
Copy onto your answer sheet — in this order
Answer: The BCEA sets hours and overtime, and the other Acts cover dismissal, equity, training, injury, buyers and credit.
6. Check it like a marker
Does your answer appear as one of the options? Do the units match what was asked (m, N, J, °)? If you put the number back into the original equation, does it still hold? Estimate: is the size sensible?
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…”
10 · 2 Marks · Team performance and conflict
What is the answer to keep for Team performance and conflict?
Team performance and conflict
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: What is the answer to keep for Team performance and conflict?
In other words — as if you have never seen this before
Forming, storming, norming, performing: without a shared rule the group stays stuck in the clash.
2. What do we already know?
Copy these onto the left of your page, one per line, with units: every number and its unit in the sentence. Mixing cm with m, or minutes with seconds, loses a method mark.
3. Which method — and why this one?
Forming, storming, norming, performing: without a shared rule the group stays stuck in the clash.
4. Step-by-step working
01 / 07
Step A — Read the question twice
Slow down. Circle the word that names the unknown. Underline every number and its unit. Do not grab a formula yet — first decide what the paper is actually asking.
Why this step: If you can say the method in a sentence, you will pick the right formula. First-timers skip this and grab the first equation they remember.
02 / 07
Step B — Write the given in a column
Copy these onto the left of your page, one per line, with units: every number and its unit in the sentence. Mixing cm with m, or minutes with seconds, loses a method mark.
Why this step: A column with units stops you mixing cm with m, or minutes with seconds. Markers can also see you started correctly.
03 / 07
Step C — Name the method in words
Forming, storming, norming, performing: without a shared rule the group stays stuck in the clash.
Why this step: If you can say the method in a sentence, you will pick the right formula. First-timers skip this and grab the first equation they remember.
04 / 07
Working
Forming, storming, norming, performing: without a shared rule the group stays stuck in the clash.
Why 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.
05 / 07
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.
06 / 07
Step F — Box the answer with its unit
Forming, storming, norming, performing: without a shared rule the group stays stuck in the clash.
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.
07 / 07
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
Forming, storming, norming, performing: without a shared rule the group stays stuck in the clash.
Copy onto your answer sheet — in this order
Answer: Forming, storming, norming, performing: without a shared rule the group stays stuck in the clash.
6. Check it like a marker
Does your answer appear as one of the options? Do the units match what was asked (m, N, J, °)? If you put the number back into the original equation, does it still hold? Estimate: is the size sensible?
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…”
11 · 2 Marks · Quality of performance
Worked theory. A guesthouse in Knysna receives three complaints about dirty bathrooms in one month. The standard was clean before arrival, but nobody checked it. The owner plans a checklist of basin, floor, towels and bin, signed by the housekeeper and glanced at by the manager. They do this for two weeks. The check shows one complaint instead of three, and the missed item was the bin. They act by moving the bin to the top of the list. That loop is PDCA, and quality of performance here sits in housekeeping, not in a speech at the front desk. What does this case show about Quality of performance?
Quality of performance
Notes: Quality of performance means each business function works to a standard, and total quality management uses the PDCA cycle to keep raising that standard.
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: Worked theory. A guesthouse in Knysna receives three complaints about dirty bathrooms in one month. The standard was clean before arrival, but nobody checked it. The owner plans a checklist of basin, floor, towels and bin, signed by the housekeeper and glanced at by the manager. They do this for two weeks. The check shows one complaint instead of three, and the missed item was the bin. They act by moving the bin to the top of the list. That loop is PDCA, and quality of performance here sits in housekeeping, not in a speech at the front desk. What does this case show about Quality of performance?
In other words — as if you have never seen this before
PDCA means plan the standard, do the work, check the result, and act on what failed.
2. What do we already know?
Quality of performance means each business function works to a standard, and total quality management uses the PDCA cycle to keep raising that standard.
3. Which method — and why this one?
PDCA means plan the standard, do the work, check the result, and act on what failed.
4. Step-by-step working
01 / 07
Step A — Read the question twice
Slow down. Circle the word that names the unknown. Underline every number and its unit. Do not grab a formula yet — first decide what the paper is actually asking.
Why this step: If you can say the method in a sentence, you will pick the right formula. First-timers skip this and grab the first equation they remember.
02 / 07
Step B — Write the given in a column
Quality of performance means each business function works to a standard, and total quality management uses the PDCA cycle to keep raising that standard.
Why this step: A column with units stops you mixing cm with m, or minutes with seconds. Markers can also see you started correctly.
03 / 07
Step C — Name the method in words
PDCA means plan the standard, do the work, check the result, and act on what failed.
Why this step: If you can say the method in a sentence, you will pick the right formula. First-timers skip this and grab the first equation they remember.
04 / 07
Working
Total quality management treats quality as everyone's job, not only a glance at the end. PDCA is plan, do, check, act: plan sets the standard and the way to meet it, do carries the work out, check compares results with the standard, and act changes the process so the same fault does not repeat. A checklist nobody uses is not quality management. A checklist that is signed, reviewed after complaints, and then rewritten is PDCA.
Why 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.
05 / 07
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.
06 / 07
Step F — Box the answer with its unit
PDCA means plan the standard, do the work, check the result, and act on what failed.
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.
07 / 07
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
PDCA means plan the standard, do the work, check the result, and act on what failed.
Copy onto your answer sheet — in this order
Answer: PDCA means plan the standard, do the work, check the result, and act on what failed.
6. Check it like a marker
Does your answer appear as one of the options? Do the units match what was asked (m, N, J, °)? If you put the number back into the original equation, does it still hold? Estimate: is the size sensible?
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…”
12 · 2 Marks · Business strategies
Worked theory. A chicken takeaway in Mamelodi buys the small broiler farm that supplies its birds. That purchase is backward vertical integration, because the business moved back down the chain to its supplier. Opening a second takeaway two suburbs away, still selling the same quarter chicken and chips, is market penetration, not integration. The farm changes control of inputs. The second shop tries to sell more of the same meal in the same kind of market. If that second shop later fails and is sold while the first stays open, the sale is divestiture, not liquidation of the whole business. What does this case show about Business strategies?
Business strategies
Notes: Strategy choices include integration, intensive growth and defensive moves: buying along the chain, selling more or something new, or cutting back.
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: Worked theory. A chicken takeaway in Mamelodi buys the small broiler farm that supplies its birds. That purchase is backward vertical integration, because the business moved back down the chain to its supplier. Opening a second takeaway two suburbs away, still selling the same quarter chicken and chips, is market penetration, not integration. The farm changes control of inputs. The second shop tries to sell more of the same meal in the same kind of market. If that second shop later fails and is sold while the first stays open, the sale is divestiture, not liquidation of the whole business. What does this case show about Business strategies?
In other words — as if you have never seen this before
Backward integration buys the supplier, and a second shop selling the same meal is market penetration.
2. What do we already know?
Strategy choices include integration, intensive growth and defensive moves: buying along the chain, selling more or something new, or cutting back.
3. Which method — and why this one?
Backward integration buys the supplier, and a second shop selling the same meal is market penetration.
4. Step-by-step working
01 / 07
Step A — Read the question twice
Slow down. Circle the word that names the unknown. Underline every number and its unit. Do not grab a formula yet — first decide what the paper is actually asking.
Why this step: If you can say the method in a sentence, you will pick the right formula. First-timers skip this and grab the first equation they remember.
02 / 07
Step B — Write the given in a column
Strategy choices include integration, intensive growth and defensive moves: buying along the chain, selling more or something new, or cutting back.
Why this step: A column with units stops you mixing cm with m, or minutes with seconds. Markers can also see you started correctly.
03 / 07
Step C — Name the method in words
Backward integration buys the supplier, and a second shop selling the same meal is market penetration.
Why this step: If you can say the method in a sentence, you will pick the right formula. First-timers skip this and grab the first equation they remember.
04 / 07
Working
Backward vertical integration buys a supplier, forward vertical integration buys a distributor or shop, and horizontal integration joins a competitor at the same stage. Intensive strategies keep growing: market penetration sells more of the current product in the current market, market development takes the same product to new customers or a new place, and product development makes a new product for current customers. Defensive strategies shrink the business. Divestiture sells off a part, while liquidation closes the whole business and sells the assets.
Why 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.
05 / 07
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.
06 / 07
Step F — Box the answer with its unit
Backward integration buys the supplier, and a second shop selling the same meal is market penetration.
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.
07 / 07
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
Backward integration buys the supplier, and a second shop selling the same meal is market penetration.
Copy onto your answer sheet — in this order
Answer: Backward integration buys the supplier, and a second shop selling the same meal is market penetration.
6. Check it like a marker
Does your answer appear as one of the options? Do the units match what was asked (m, N, J, °)? If you put the number back into the original equation, does it still hold? Estimate: is the size sensible?
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…”
13 · 2 Marks · Creative thinking
What is the answer to keep for Creative thinking?
Creative thinking
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: What is the answer to keep for Creative thinking?
In other words — as if you have never seen this before
Force-field weighs drivers against resistors, while Delphi, nominal group and brainstorming gather ideas in different ways.
2. What do we already know?
Copy these onto the left of your page, one per line, with units: every number and its unit in the sentence. Mixing cm with m, or minutes with seconds, loses a method mark.
3. Which method — and why this one?
Force-field weighs drivers against resistors, while Delphi, nominal group and brainstorming gather ideas in different ways.
4. Step-by-step working
01 / 07
Step A — Read the question twice
Slow down. Circle the word that names the unknown. Underline every number and its unit. Do not grab a formula yet — first decide what the paper is actually asking.
Why this step: If you can say the method in a sentence, you will pick the right formula. First-timers skip this and grab the first equation they remember.
02 / 07
Step B — Write the given in a column
Copy these onto the left of your page, one per line, with units: every number and its unit in the sentence. Mixing cm with m, or minutes with seconds, loses a method mark.
Why this step: A column with units stops you mixing cm with m, or minutes with seconds. Markers can also see you started correctly.
03 / 07
Step C — Name the method in words
Force-field weighs drivers against resistors, while Delphi, nominal group and brainstorming gather ideas in different ways.
Why this step: If you can say the method in a sentence, you will pick the right formula. First-timers skip this and grab the first equation they remember.
04 / 07
Working
Force-field weighs drivers against resistors, while Delphi, nominal group and brainstorming gather ideas in different ways.
Why 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.
05 / 07
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.
06 / 07
Step F — Box the answer with its unit
Force-field weighs drivers against resistors, while Delphi, nominal group and brainstorming gather ideas in different ways.
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.
07 / 07
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
Force-field weighs drivers against resistors, while Delphi, nominal group and brainstorming gather ideas in different ways.
Copy onto your answer sheet — in this order
Answer: Force-field weighs drivers against resistors, while Delphi, nominal group and brainstorming gather ideas in different ways.
6. Check it like a marker
Does your answer appear as one of the options? Do the units match what was asked (m, N, J, °)? If you put the number back into the original equation, does it still hold? Estimate: is the size sensible?
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…”
14 · 2 Marks · Creative thinking
Worked theory. A hotel in Hazyview is deciding whether to add a shuttle to the Kruger gate, and it uses force-field analysis rather than a slogan. Drivers include guest requests, a rival lodge that already fetches people, and about R8 000 a month in extra room nights if guests stay because of the lift. Resistors include the cost of a minibus, a driver's wage of about R6 000, and insurance. The manager strengthens a driver by sharing the shuttle with a neighbouring lodge, which weakens the cost resistor. They run the shuttle three mornings a week. Brainstorming would only have produced the word shuttle, while force-field showed whether the drivers beat the resistors. What does this case show about Creative thinking?
Creative thinking
Notes: Force-field analysis, the Delphi technique, the nominal group technique and brainstorming are structured ways to think, not motivational slogans.
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: Worked theory. A hotel in Hazyview is deciding whether to add a shuttle to the Kruger gate, and it uses force-field analysis rather than a slogan. Drivers include guest requests, a rival lodge that already fetches people, and about R8 000 a month in extra room nights if guests stay because of the lift. Resistors include the cost of a minibus, a driver's wage of about R6 000, and insurance. The manager strengthens a driver by sharing the shuttle with a neighbouring lodge, which weakens the cost resistor. They run the shuttle three mornings a week. Brainstorming would only have produced the word shuttle, while force-field showed whether the drivers beat the resistors. What does this case show about Creative thinking?
Before any working — hunt first
Given
Numbers and units already in the sentence: R8 · 000 a · R6 · 000. Copy each one into a column. A name without a number is not given.
Missing
After you copy the given, the letter that still has no number is missing. The paper is pointing at: which weakens the cost resistor. Circle that word — that is the missing variable.
Find
We are required to find: which weakens the cost resistor. Write that as a symbol on the left, with a question mark, before you touch a formula.
Calculate
What we need to calculate: Force-field weighs drivers against resistors, while Delphi, nominal group and brainstorming gather ideas in different ways. Then substitute the given, one line at a time, to get which weakens the cost resistor.
In other words — as if you have never seen this before
Force-field weighs drivers against resistors, while Delphi, nominal group and brainstorming gather ideas in different ways.
2. What do we already know?
Force-field analysis, the Delphi technique, the nominal group technique and brainstorming are structured ways to think, not motivational slogans.
3. Which method — and why this one?
Force-field weighs drivers against resistors, while Delphi, nominal group and brainstorming gather ideas in different ways.
4. Step-by-step working
01 / 08
Step A — Read the question twice
Slow down. Circle the word that names the unknown. Underline every number and its unit. Do not grab a formula yet — first decide what the paper is actually asking.
Why this step: If you can say the method in a sentence, you will pick the right formula. First-timers skip this and grab the first equation they remember.
02 / 08
Step A2 — Hunt: Given, Missing, Find, Calculate
Given: Numbers and units already in the sentence: R8 · 000 a · R6 · 000. Copy each one into a column. A name without a number is not given.
Missing: After you copy the given, the letter that still has no number is missing. The paper is pointing at: which weakens the cost resistor. Circle that word — that is the missing variable.
Find: We are required to find: which weakens the cost resistor. Write that as a symbol on the left, with a question mark, before you touch a formula.
Calculate: What we need to calculate: Force-field weighs drivers against resistors, while Delphi, nominal group and brainstorming gather ideas in different ways. Then substitute the given, one line at a time, to get which weakens the cost resistor.
Why this step: Do not name the letters yet. First hunt: what already has a number (Given), what has no number (Missing), the word the paper wants (Find), and which formula still contains the missing letter (Calculate).
03 / 08
Step B — Write the given in a column
Force-field analysis, the Delphi technique, the nominal group technique and brainstorming are structured ways to think, not motivational slogans.
Why this step: A column with units stops you mixing cm with m, or minutes with seconds. Markers can also see you started correctly.
04 / 08
Step C — Name the method in words
Force-field weighs drivers against resistors, while Delphi, nominal group and brainstorming gather ideas in different ways.
Why this step: If you can say the method in a sentence, you will pick the right formula. First-timers skip this and grab the first equation they remember.
05 / 08
Working
Brainstorming collects many ideas and holds judgment back at the start, while nominal group technique has each person write ideas alone before the group scores them, so the loudest voice does not automatically win. Delphi asks experts in rounds, often without names, and feeds summaries back until the views settle. Force-field analysis lists drivers that push a change and resistors that block it, then asks which forces can be strengthened or weakened. The technique has to match the job, because a list of forces is not the same as a free shout of ideas.
Why 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.
06 / 08
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.
07 / 08
Step F — Box the answer with its unit
Force-field weighs drivers against resistors, while Delphi, nominal group and brainstorming gather ideas in different ways.
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.
08 / 08
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
Force-field weighs drivers against resistors, while Delphi, nominal group and brainstorming gather ideas in different ways.
Copy onto your answer sheet — in this order
Answer: Force-field weighs drivers against resistors, while Delphi, nominal group and brainstorming gather ideas in different ways.
6. Check it like a marker
Does your answer appear as one of the options? Do the units match what was asked (m, N, J, °)? If you put the number back into the original equation, does it still hold? Estimate: is the size sensible?
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…”
15 · 2 Marks · Legislation
Worked theory. Palesa, a cashier at a supermarket in Bloemfontein, works 48 hours in one week. The ordinary week under the BCEA is 45 hours, so the extra 3 hours are weekday overtime. She is paid only her normal rate. If her rate is R30 an hour, those 3 hours at one and a half times should add R135, not R90. Asking for the extra hours can be lawful. Not paying the overtime rate is a breach of the BCEA, and if the employer will not fix the payslip she can take the dispute along the LRA path to the CCMA. What does this case show about Legislation?
Legislation
Notes: Labour and consumer laws, including the BCEA, LRA, Employment Equity Act, skills-development law, COIDA, CPA and NCA, set duties a business must meet.
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: Worked theory. Palesa, a cashier at a supermarket in Bloemfontein, works 48 hours in one week. The ordinary week under the BCEA is 45 hours, so the extra 3 hours are weekday overtime. She is paid only her normal rate. If her rate is R30 an hour, those 3 hours at one and a half times should add R135, not R90. Asking for the extra hours can be lawful. Not paying the overtime rate is a breach of the BCEA, and if the employer will not fix the payslip she can take the dispute along the LRA path to the CCMA. What does this case show about Legislation?
In other words — as if you have never seen this before
The BCEA sets hours and overtime, and the other Acts cover dismissal, equity, training, injury, buyers and credit.
2. What do we already know?
Labour and consumer laws, including the BCEA, LRA, Employment Equity Act, skills-development law, COIDA, CPA and NCA, set duties a business must meet.
3. Which method — and why this one?
The BCEA sets hours and overtime, and the other Acts cover dismissal, equity, training, injury, buyers and credit.
4. Step-by-step working
01 / 07
Step A — Read the question twice
Slow down. Circle the word that names the unknown. Underline every number and its unit. Do not grab a formula yet — first decide what the paper is actually asking.
Why this step: If you can say the method in a sentence, you will pick the right formula. First-timers skip this and grab the first equation they remember.
02 / 07
Step B — Write the given in a column
Labour and consumer laws, including the BCEA, LRA, Employment Equity Act, skills-development law, COIDA, CPA and NCA, set duties a business must meet.
Why this step: A column with units stops you mixing cm with m, or minutes with seconds. Markers can also see you started correctly.
03 / 07
Step C — Name the method in words
The BCEA sets hours and overtime, and the other Acts cover dismissal, equity, training, injury, buyers and credit.
Why this step: If you can say the method in a sentence, you will pick the right formula. First-timers skip this and grab the first equation they remember.
04 / 07
Working
The BCEA sets basic conditions such as the ordinary 45-hour week, overtime pay and leave. The LRA covers fair dismissal, unions and disputes, the Employment Equity Act covers fair treatment and redress at work, and skills-development law supports training through levies and learnerships. COIDA deals with compensation when a worker is injured on the job. The CPA protects buyers against unfair or faulty sales, and the NCA protects borrowers, including a duty to show the full cost of credit.
Why 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.
05 / 07
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.
06 / 07
Step F — Box the answer with its unit
The BCEA sets hours and overtime, and the other Acts cover dismissal, equity, training, injury, buyers and credit.
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.
07 / 07
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
The BCEA sets hours and overtime, and the other Acts cover dismissal, equity, training, injury, buyers and credit.
Copy onto your answer sheet — in this order
Answer: The BCEA sets hours and overtime, and the other Acts cover dismissal, equity, training, injury, buyers and credit.
6. Check it like a marker
Does your answer appear as one of the options? Do the units match what was asked (m, N, J, °)? If you put the number back into the original equation, does it still hold? Estimate: is the size sensible?
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…”
16 · 2 Marks · Business strategies
What is the answer to keep for Business strategies?
Business strategies
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: What is the answer to keep for Business strategies?
In other words — as if you have never seen this before
Backward integration buys the supplier, and a second shop selling the same meal is market penetration.
2. What do we already know?
Copy these onto the left of your page, one per line, with units: every number and its unit in the sentence. Mixing cm with m, or minutes with seconds, loses a method mark.
3. Which method — and why this one?
Backward integration buys the supplier, and a second shop selling the same meal is market penetration.
4. Step-by-step working
01 / 07
Step A — Read the question twice
Slow down. Circle the word that names the unknown. Underline every number and its unit. Do not grab a formula yet — first decide what the paper is actually asking.
Why this step: If you can say the method in a sentence, you will pick the right formula. First-timers skip this and grab the first equation they remember.
02 / 07
Step B — Write the given in a column
Copy these onto the left of your page, one per line, with units: every number and its unit in the sentence. Mixing cm with m, or minutes with seconds, loses a method mark.
Why this step: A column with units stops you mixing cm with m, or minutes with seconds. Markers can also see you started correctly.
03 / 07
Step C — Name the method in words
Backward integration buys the supplier, and a second shop selling the same meal is market penetration.
Why this step: If you can say the method in a sentence, you will pick the right formula. First-timers skip this and grab the first equation they remember.
04 / 07
Working
Backward integration buys the supplier, and a second shop selling the same meal is market penetration.
Why 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.
05 / 07
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.
06 / 07
Step F — Box the answer with its unit
Backward integration buys the supplier, and a second shop selling the same meal is market penetration.
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.
07 / 07
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
Backward integration buys the supplier, and a second shop selling the same meal is market penetration.
Copy onto your answer sheet — in this order
Answer: Backward integration buys the supplier, and a second shop selling the same meal is market penetration.
6. Check it like a marker
Does your answer appear as one of the options? Do the units match what was asked (m, N, J, °)? If you put the number back into the original equation, does it still hold? Estimate: is the size sensible?
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…”
17 · 2 Marks · Ethics and professionalism
Worked theory. A buyer for a hospital canteen in Tshwane must choose a meat supplier. One supplier leaves a hamper worth about R1 500 at her house in the week of the decision and asks her to remember who looks after her. She awards that supplier the monthly contract even though another quote was R3 a kilogram cheaper. The hamper is a bribe, which a code of ethics forbids. A colleague who reports it on the hospital hotline is whistle-blowing, not gossip. Taking the hamper is unethical, not merely a clumsy way of working. What does this case show about Ethics and professionalism?
Ethics and professionalism
Notes: A code of ethics forbids bribery and protects genuine whistle-blowing, and unethical conduct is not the same thing as merely unprofessional conduct.
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: Worked theory. A buyer for a hospital canteen in Tshwane must choose a meat supplier. One supplier leaves a hamper worth about R1 500 at her house in the week of the decision and asks her to remember who looks after her. She awards that supplier the monthly contract even though another quote was R3 a kilogram cheaper. The hamper is a bribe, which a code of ethics forbids. A colleague who reports it on the hospital hotline is whistle-blowing, not gossip. Taking the hamper is unethical, not merely a clumsy way of working. What does this case show about Ethics and professionalism?
Before any working — hunt first
Given
Numbers and units already in the sentence: R1 · 500 at · R3 a. Copy each one into a column. A name without a number is not given.
Missing
After you copy the given, the letter that still has no number is missing. The paper is pointing at: which a code of ethics forbids. Circle that word — that is the missing variable.
Find
We are required to find: which a code of ethics forbids. Write that as a symbol on the left, with a question mark, before you touch a formula.
Calculate
What we need to calculate: A bribe buys an unfair decision, and reporting it through the right channel is whistle-blowing. Then substitute the given, one line at a time, to get which a code of ethics forbids.
In other words — as if you have never seen this before
A bribe buys an unfair decision, and reporting it through the right channel is whistle-blowing.
2. What do we already know?
A code of ethics forbids bribery and protects genuine whistle-blowing, and unethical conduct is not the same thing as merely unprofessional conduct.
3. Which method — and why this one?
A bribe buys an unfair decision, and reporting it through the right channel is whistle-blowing.
4. Step-by-step working
01 / 08
Step A — Read the question twice
Slow down. Circle the word that names the unknown. Underline every number and its unit. Do not grab a formula yet — first decide what the paper is actually asking.
Why this step: If you can say the method in a sentence, you will pick the right formula. First-timers skip this and grab the first equation they remember.
02 / 08
Step A2 — Hunt: Given, Missing, Find, Calculate
Given: Numbers and units already in the sentence: R1 · 500 at · R3 a. Copy each one into a column. A name without a number is not given.
Missing: After you copy the given, the letter that still has no number is missing. The paper is pointing at: which a code of ethics forbids. Circle that word — that is the missing variable.
Find: We are required to find: which a code of ethics forbids. Write that as a symbol on the left, with a question mark, before you touch a formula.
Calculate: What we need to calculate: A bribe buys an unfair decision, and reporting it through the right channel is whistle-blowing. Then substitute the given, one line at a time, to get which a code of ethics forbids.
Why this step: Do not name the letters yet. First hunt: what already has a number (Given), what has no number (Missing), the word the paper wants (Find), and which formula still contains the missing letter (Calculate).
03 / 08
Step B — Write the given in a column
A code of ethics forbids bribery and protects genuine whistle-blowing, and unethical conduct is not the same thing as merely unprofessional conduct.
Why this step: A column with units stops you mixing cm with m, or minutes with seconds. Markers can also see you started correctly.
04 / 08
Step C — Name the method in words
A bribe buys an unfair decision, and reporting it through the right channel is whistle-blowing.
Why this step: If you can say the method in a sentence, you will pick the right formula. First-timers skip this and grab the first equation they remember.
05 / 08
Working
The code states what the business counts as right, including gifts, honesty and conflicts of interest. Bribery is money or a gift given so that someone with power chooses unfairly. Whistle-blowing is reporting that wrongdoing through a proper channel, and the law protects a genuine whistle-blower from being punished for the report. Unprofessional behaviour is a poor work standard, such as a late return, while unethical behaviour is morally wrong, such as taking a bribe, so a person can be sloppy without being corrupt and a polished person can still be unethical.
Why 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.
06 / 08
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.
07 / 08
Step F — Box the answer with its unit
A bribe buys an unfair decision, and reporting it through the right channel is whistle-blowing.
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.
08 / 08
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
A bribe buys an unfair decision, and reporting it through the right channel is whistle-blowing.
Copy onto your answer sheet — in this order
Answer: A bribe buys an unfair decision, and reporting it through the right channel is whistle-blowing.
6. Check it like a marker
Does your answer appear as one of the options? Do the units match what was asked (m, N, J, °)? If you put the number back into the original equation, does it still hold? Estimate: is the size sensible?
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…”
18 · 2 Marks · Human rights, inclusivity and environment
What is the answer to keep for Human rights, inclusivity and environment?
Human rights, inclusivity and environment
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: What is the answer to keep for Human rights, inclusivity and environment?
In other words — as if you have never seen this before
Rights and inclusivity are tested at the door, the counter and the waste bin, not on a poster.
2. What do we already know?
Copy these onto the left of your page, one per line, with units: every number and its unit in the sentence. Mixing cm with m, or minutes with seconds, loses a method mark.
3. Which method — and why this one?
Rights and inclusivity are tested at the door, the counter and the waste bin, not on a poster.
4. Step-by-step working
01 / 07
Step A — Read the question twice
Slow down. Circle the word that names the unknown. Underline every number and its unit. Do not grab a formula yet — first decide what the paper is actually asking.
Why this step: If you can say the method in a sentence, you will pick the right formula. First-timers skip this and grab the first equation they remember.
02 / 07
Step B — Write the given in a column
Copy these onto the left of your page, one per line, with units: every number and its unit in the sentence. Mixing cm with m, or minutes with seconds, loses a method mark.
Why this step: A column with units stops you mixing cm with m, or minutes with seconds. Markers can also see you started correctly.
03 / 07
Step C — Name the method in words
Rights and inclusivity are tested at the door, the counter and the waste bin, not on a poster.
Why this step: If you can say the method in a sentence, you will pick the right formula. First-timers skip this and grab the first equation they remember.
04 / 07
Working
Rights and inclusivity are tested at the door, the counter and the waste bin, not on a poster.
Why 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.
05 / 07
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.
06 / 07
Step F — Box the answer with its unit
Rights and inclusivity are tested at the door, the counter and the waste bin, not on a poster.
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.
07 / 07
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
Rights and inclusivity are tested at the door, the counter and the waste bin, not on a poster.
Copy onto your answer sheet — in this order
Answer: Rights and inclusivity are tested at the door, the counter and the waste bin, not on a poster.
6. Check it like a marker
Does your answer appear as one of the options? Do the units match what was asked (m, N, J, °)? If you put the number back into the original equation, does it still hold? Estimate: is the size sensible?
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…”
19 · 2 Marks · Ethics and professionalism
What is the answer to keep for Ethics and professionalism?
Ethics and professionalism
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: What is the answer to keep for Ethics and professionalism?
In other words — as if you have never seen this before
A bribe buys an unfair decision, and reporting it through the right channel is whistle-blowing.
2. What do we already know?
Copy these onto the left of your page, one per line, with units: every number and its unit in the sentence. Mixing cm with m, or minutes with seconds, loses a method mark.
3. Which method — and why this one?
A bribe buys an unfair decision, and reporting it through the right channel is whistle-blowing.
4. Step-by-step working
01 / 07
Step A — Read the question twice
Slow down. Circle the word that names the unknown. Underline every number and its unit. Do not grab a formula yet — first decide what the paper is actually asking.
Why this step: If you can say the method in a sentence, you will pick the right formula. First-timers skip this and grab the first equation they remember.
02 / 07
Step B — Write the given in a column
Copy these onto the left of your page, one per line, with units: every number and its unit in the sentence. Mixing cm with m, or minutes with seconds, loses a method mark.
Why this step: A column with units stops you mixing cm with m, or minutes with seconds. Markers can also see you started correctly.
03 / 07
Step C — Name the method in words
A bribe buys an unfair decision, and reporting it through the right channel is whistle-blowing.
Why this step: If you can say the method in a sentence, you will pick the right formula. First-timers skip this and grab the first equation they remember.
04 / 07
Working
A bribe buys an unfair decision, and reporting it through the right channel is whistle-blowing.
Why 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.
05 / 07
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.
06 / 07
Step F — Box the answer with its unit
A bribe buys an unfair decision, and reporting it through the right channel is whistle-blowing.
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.
07 / 07
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
A bribe buys an unfair decision, and reporting it through the right channel is whistle-blowing.
Copy onto your answer sheet — in this order
Answer: A bribe buys an unfair decision, and reporting it through the right channel is whistle-blowing.
6. Check it like a marker
Does your answer appear as one of the options? Do the units match what was asked (m, N, J, °)? If you put the number back into the original equation, does it still hold? Estimate: is the size sensible?
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…”
20 · 2 Marks · Team performance and conflict
Worked theory. A Grade 12 Business Studies group at a high school in Soweto must hand in a poster and a written report on Friday. In forming they smile and say the work will be shared. In storming, Ayanda does the whole poster and Sipho stops answering messages. There is no norm about who writes, who draws, and what happens if someone vanishes. By Thursday the report is still blank, so they are not performing. A rule set on day one, that each person sends a section by Wednesday, would have caught the conflict while time remained. What does this case show about Team performance and conflict?
Team performance and conflict
Notes: Teams often move through forming, storming, norming and performing, and unresolved conflict keeps them from getting the work done.
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: Worked theory. A Grade 12 Business Studies group at a high school in Soweto must hand in a poster and a written report on Friday. In forming they smile and say the work will be shared. In storming, Ayanda does the whole poster and Sipho stops answering messages. There is no norm about who writes, who draws, and what happens if someone vanishes. By Thursday the report is still blank, so they are not performing. A rule set on day one, that each person sends a section by Wednesday, would have caught the conflict while time remained. What does this case show about Team performance and conflict?
In other words — as if you have never seen this before
Forming, storming, norming, performing: without a shared rule the group stays stuck in the clash.
2. What do we already know?
Teams often move through forming, storming, norming and performing, and unresolved conflict keeps them from getting the work done.
3. Which method — and why this one?
Forming, storming, norming, performing: without a shared rule the group stays stuck in the clash.
4. Step-by-step working
01 / 07
Step A — Read the question twice
Slow down. Circle the word that names the unknown. Underline every number and its unit. Do not grab a formula yet — first decide what the paper is actually asking.
Why this step: If you can say the method in a sentence, you will pick the right formula. First-timers skip this and grab the first equation they remember.
02 / 07
Step B — Write the given in a column
Teams often move through forming, storming, norming and performing, and unresolved conflict keeps them from getting the work done.
Why this step: A column with units stops you mixing cm with m, or minutes with seconds. Markers can also see you started correctly.
03 / 07
Step C — Name the method in words
Forming, storming, norming, performing: without a shared rule the group stays stuck in the clash.
Why this step: If you can say the method in a sentence, you will pick the right formula. First-timers skip this and grab the first equation they remember.
04 / 07
Working
Forming is the polite start when roles are still unclear, and storming is the clash over who does what. Norming is the agreement on rules, and performing is the work actually getting done to those rules. A group can stick in storming if one person carries everything and another disappears. Conflict helps when it clarifies roles and harms when it becomes blame or silence, and without a norm performing does not start.
Why 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.
05 / 07
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.
06 / 07
Step F — Box the answer with its unit
Forming, storming, norming, performing: without a shared rule the group stays stuck in the clash.
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.
07 / 07
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
Forming, storming, norming, performing: without a shared rule the group stays stuck in the clash.
Copy onto your answer sheet — in this order
Answer: Forming, storming, norming, performing: without a shared rule the group stays stuck in the clash.
6. Check it like a marker
Does your answer appear as one of the options? Do the units match what was asked (m, N, J, °)? If you put the number back into the original equation, does it still hold? Estimate: is the size sensible?
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…”
21 · 2 Marks · Quality of performance
What is the answer to keep for Quality of performance?
Quality of performance
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: What is the answer to keep for Quality of performance?
In other words — as if you have never seen this before
PDCA means plan the standard, do the work, check the result, and act on what failed.
2. What do we already know?
Copy these onto the left of your page, one per line, with units: every number and its unit in the sentence. Mixing cm with m, or minutes with seconds, loses a method mark.
3. Which method — and why this one?
PDCA means plan the standard, do the work, check the result, and act on what failed.
4. Step-by-step working
01 / 07
Step A — Read the question twice
Slow down. Circle the word that names the unknown. Underline every number and its unit. Do not grab a formula yet — first decide what the paper is actually asking.
Why this step: If you can say the method in a sentence, you will pick the right formula. First-timers skip this and grab the first equation they remember.
02 / 07
Step B — Write the given in a column
Copy these onto the left of your page, one per line, with units: every number and its unit in the sentence. Mixing cm with m, or minutes with seconds, loses a method mark.
Why this step: A column with units stops you mixing cm with m, or minutes with seconds. Markers can also see you started correctly.
03 / 07
Step C — Name the method in words
PDCA means plan the standard, do the work, check the result, and act on what failed.
Why this step: If you can say the method in a sentence, you will pick the right formula. First-timers skip this and grab the first equation they remember.
04 / 07
Working
PDCA means plan the standard, do the work, check the result, and act on what failed.
Why 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.
05 / 07
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.
06 / 07
Step F — Box the answer with its unit
PDCA means plan the standard, do the work, check the result, and act on what failed.
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.
07 / 07
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
PDCA means plan the standard, do the work, check the result, and act on what failed.
Copy onto your answer sheet — in this order
Answer: PDCA means plan the standard, do the work, check the result, and act on what failed.
6. Check it like a marker
Does your answer appear as one of the options? Do the units match what was asked (m, N, J, °)? If you put the number back into the original equation, does it still hold? Estimate: is the size sensible?
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…”
22 · 2 Marks · Human rights, inclusivity and environment
Worked theory. A clinic pharmacy in Alexandra has a three-step entrance and no ramp. Dlamini, a wheelchair user, cannot collect his medicine himself and has to ask a stranger to climb the steps. The pharmacy serves the public, and the steps exclude him before any pharmacist speaks. Inclusivity and the right of access fail at the door. A portable ramp costing a few thousand rand would let him enter on his own. The right is not a poster about caring. It is a door he can use. What does this case show about Human rights, inclusivity and environment?
Human rights, inclusivity and environment
Notes: Businesses have to respect human rights, practise inclusivity, and take responsibility for environmental harm in how they actually operate.
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: Worked theory. A clinic pharmacy in Alexandra has a three-step entrance and no ramp. Dlamini, a wheelchair user, cannot collect his medicine himself and has to ask a stranger to climb the steps. The pharmacy serves the public, and the steps exclude him before any pharmacist speaks. Inclusivity and the right of access fail at the door. A portable ramp costing a few thousand rand would let him enter on his own. The right is not a poster about caring. It is a door he can use. What does this case show about Human rights, inclusivity and environment?
In other words — as if you have never seen this before
Rights and inclusivity are tested at the door, the counter and the waste bin, not on a poster.
2. What do we already know?
Businesses have to respect human rights, practise inclusivity, and take responsibility for environmental harm in how they actually operate.
3. Which method — and why this one?
Rights and inclusivity are tested at the door, the counter and the waste bin, not on a poster.
4. Step-by-step working
01 / 07
Step A — Read the question twice
Slow down. Circle the word that names the unknown. Underline every number and its unit. Do not grab a formula yet — first decide what the paper is actually asking.
Why this step: If you can say the method in a sentence, you will pick the right formula. First-timers skip this and grab the first equation they remember.
02 / 07
Step B — Write the given in a column
Businesses have to respect human rights, practise inclusivity, and take responsibility for environmental harm in how they actually operate.
Why this step: A column with units stops you mixing cm with m, or minutes with seconds. Markers can also see you started correctly.
03 / 07
Step C — Name the method in words
Rights and inclusivity are tested at the door, the counter and the waste bin, not on a poster.
Why this step: If you can say the method in a sentence, you will pick the right formula. First-timers skip this and grab the first equation they remember.
04 / 07
Working
Human rights in a business setting include dignity, equality and access, so a person is not shut out because of disability, language or gender. Inclusivity means designing the service so more people can use it, not only saying they are welcome. Environmental responsibility means limiting the business's own dumping, waste and pollution even when a dirtier option is cheaper. A poster does not count if the building, the hiring or the waste pile contradicts it.
Why 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.
05 / 07
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.
06 / 07
Step F — Box the answer with its unit
Rights and inclusivity are tested at the door, the counter and the waste bin, not on a poster.
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.
07 / 07
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
Rights and inclusivity are tested at the door, the counter and the waste bin, not on a poster.
Copy onto your answer sheet — in this order
Answer: Rights and inclusivity are tested at the door, the counter and the waste bin, not on a poster.
6. Check it like a marker
Does your answer appear as one of the options? Do the units match what was asked (m, N, J, °)? If you put the number back into the original equation, does it still hold? Estimate: is the size sensible?
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…”
23 · 2 Marks · Human resources function
What is the answer to keep for Human resources function?
Human resources function
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: What is the answer to keep for Human resources function?
In other words — as if you have never seen this before
Hiring is not finished until induction, placement and a clear contract have all happened.
2. What do we already know?
Copy these onto the left of your page, one per line, with units: every number and its unit in the sentence. Mixing cm with m, or minutes with seconds, loses a method mark.
3. Which method — and why this one?
Hiring is not finished until induction, placement and a clear contract have all happened.
4. Step-by-step working
01 / 07
Step A — Read the question twice
Slow down. Circle the word that names the unknown. Underline every number and its unit. Do not grab a formula yet — first decide what the paper is actually asking.
Why this step: If you can say the method in a sentence, you will pick the right formula. First-timers skip this and grab the first equation they remember.
02 / 07
Step B — Write the given in a column
Copy these onto the left of your page, one per line, with units: every number and its unit in the sentence. Mixing cm with m, or minutes with seconds, loses a method mark.
Why this step: A column with units stops you mixing cm with m, or minutes with seconds. Markers can also see you started correctly.
03 / 07
Step C — Name the method in words
Hiring is not finished until induction, placement and a clear contract have all happened.
Why this step: If you can say the method in a sentence, you will pick the right formula. First-timers skip this and grab the first equation they remember.
04 / 07
Working
Hiring is not finished until induction, placement and a clear contract have all happened.
Why 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.
05 / 07
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.
06 / 07
Step F — Box the answer with its unit
Hiring is not finished until induction, placement and a clear contract have all happened.
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.
07 / 07
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
Hiring is not finished until induction, placement and a clear contract have all happened.
Copy onto your answer sheet — in this order
Answer: Hiring is not finished until induction, placement and a clear contract have all happened.
6. Check it like a marker
Does your answer appear as one of the options? Do the units match what was asked (m, N, J, °)? If you put the number back into the original equation, does it still hold? Estimate: is the size sensible?
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…”
24 · 2 Marks · Human resources function
Worked theory. A hardware store in Polokwane hires Lerato as a cashier on a Monday. She signs a contract for R6 500 a month and 45 hours a week, so recruitment, selection and the contract have happened. Nobody shows her the till, the returns book, or who to call when the float is short. On Tuesday she rings a R900 sale as R90. The gap is induction and proper placement, not the decision to hire. An hour on the till with a supervisor beside her for the first shift is the missing human-resources step. What does this case show about Human resources function?
Human resources function
Notes: Human resources brings people in through recruitment and selection, then settles them with induction, placement and an employment contract.
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: Worked theory. A hardware store in Polokwane hires Lerato as a cashier on a Monday. She signs a contract for R6 500 a month and 45 hours a week, so recruitment, selection and the contract have happened. Nobody shows her the till, the returns book, or who to call when the float is short. On Tuesday she rings a R900 sale as R90. The gap is induction and proper placement, not the decision to hire. An hour on the till with a supervisor beside her for the first shift is the missing human-resources step. What does this case show about Human resources function?
In other words — as if you have never seen this before
Hiring is not finished until induction, placement and a clear contract have all happened.
2. What do we already know?
Human resources brings people in through recruitment and selection, then settles them with induction, placement and an employment contract.
3. Which method — and why this one?
Hiring is not finished until induction, placement and a clear contract have all happened.
4. Step-by-step working
01 / 07
Step A — Read the question twice
Slow down. Circle the word that names the unknown. Underline every number and its unit. Do not grab a formula yet — first decide what the paper is actually asking.
Why this step: If you can say the method in a sentence, you will pick the right formula. First-timers skip this and grab the first equation they remember.
02 / 07
Step B — Write the given in a column
Human resources brings people in through recruitment and selection, then settles them with induction, placement and an employment contract.
Why this step: A column with units stops you mixing cm with m, or minutes with seconds. Markers can also see you started correctly.
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Step C — Name the method in words
Hiring is not finished until induction, placement and a clear contract have all happened.
Why this step: If you can say the method in a sentence, you will pick the right formula. First-timers skip this and grab the first equation they remember.
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Working
Recruitment finds applicants, and selection chooses among them using criteria that match the real job. Induction teaches the new person the rules, the people and the tasks before they are left alone. Placement puts them in the role they were hired for, with the tools and a supervisor. The employment contract records pay, hours and duties so both sides share one version of the deal, but a signature without induction still leaves a person who cannot do the work.
Why 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
Hiring is not finished until induction, placement and a clear contract have all happened.
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
Hiring is not finished until induction, placement and a clear contract have all happened.
Copy onto your answer sheet — in this order
Answer: Hiring is not finished until induction, placement and a clear contract have all happened.
6. Check it like a marker
Does your answer appear as one of the options? Do the units match what was asked (m, N, J, °)? If you put the number back into the original equation, does it still hold? Estimate: is the size sensible?
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…”