Alex Science Department

Guidelines document

• THIS you need to study for all assessments. CLICK HERE

Bursary news 

• Gr. 11 marks are of paramount importance for any application in your gr. 12 year. 
• Work hard this year to get those marks as high as possible!

Videos from Mr Oosthuizen

ΔH / Enthalpy change

• ΔH methods
• ΔH example

Electricity

• Current electricity - the basics
• Ohm's law
• Circuit problem (simple)
• Circuit problem (medium)
• Circuit problem (difficult) - no Internal resistance

Gases

• Gas laws and thermal properties

Electrostatics

• General notes 
• Coulomb's law
• Resultant force for charges in a line
• Resultant force for charges not in a straight line
• Resultant E-field

Scientific notation

• Explaining prefixes and the use of the calculator

Downloadable study material from your teacher(s):

(if the file is a Powerpoint file - press F5 in order to start the show) 

• CAPS document Exam Guidelines MINING: Exploiting the  Lithosphere

• Gravitation examples (Mrs Hough)

• Vectors (Mr McEwan)

• Vectors Tutorial (Mr McEwan)

• Term 1 Class notes for Molecular structure (Mr Oosthuizen)

• Additional exercises for Molecular structure, bonding, polarity, bonding energy, etc. (Mr Oosthuizen) 

• Scientific Notation

• Covalent bonding (Mr Oosthuizen)

• Electrostatics (Mr McEwan)

• Magnetism & Electrostatics (Mr McEwan)

• Gr. 8 & 9  NS Chemistry notes (VERY important Chemistry pre-knowledge)

Revision booklets

• Electricity and Memo

• E-Fields,Coulomb, Faraday and Memo

• Gases, Gas laws, Energy and Memo

Downloadable past papers:

CAPS Papers: 2013-current

• March 2013 and Memo
• June 2013 and Memo
• September 2013 and Memo
• Exemplar Paper 1 and Memo
• Exemplar Paper 2 and Memo
• November 2013 Paper 1 and Memo
• November 2013 Paper 2 and Memo
• March 2014 and Memo
• June 2014 and Memo
• September 2014 and Memo
• November 2014 Paper 1 and Memo
• November 2014 Paper 2 and Memo
• March 2015 and Memo
• June 2015 and Memo
• September 2015 and Memo
• November 2015 Paper 1 and Memo
• November 2015 Paper 2 and Memo
• November 2015 Paper 1 Exemplar (no Memo)
• November 2015 Paper 2 Exemplar (no Memo)
• March 2016 and Memo
• June 2016 and Memo
• June 2016 Paper 1 (Departmental) and Memo  
• June 2016 Paper 2 (Departmental) and Memo  
• September 2016 and Memo
• September 2016 (Departmental) and Memo 
• November 2016 Paper 1 and Memo
• November 2016 Paper 2 and Memo 
• March 2017 and Memo
• June 2017 and Memo
• September 2017 and Memo
• November 2017 Paper 1 and Memo
• November 2017 Paper 2 and Memo
• Feb 2018 Test and Memo
• March 2018 Test and Memo
• June 2018 Paper 1 and Memo
• June 2018 Paper 2 and Memo
• September 2018 and Memo
• November 2018 Paper 1 and Memo
• November 2018 Paper 2 and Memo
• February 2019 test and Memo
• March 2019 test and Memo
• June 2019 Paper 1 and Memo
• June 2019 Paper 2 and Memo
• September 2019 test and Memo
• November 2019 Paper 1 and Memo
• November 2019 Paper 2 and Memo
• February 2020 test and Memo
• March 2020 test and Memo
• October 2020 test (Blue) and Memo 
• October 2020 test (Green) and Memo
• November 2020 Exam and Memo
• Term 1 2021 Test 1  and Memo
• Term 1 2021 Test 2  and Memo
• Term 2 2021 Test 1  and Memo
• June 2021 and Memo
• September 2021 and Memo
• November 2021 Paper 1 and Memo
• November 2021 Paper 2 and Memo
• June 2022 P1 and Memo
• June 2022 P2 and Memo

Pre-CAPS Papers: 2007-2012

• November 2007 Exemplar Paper 1 and Memo
• November 2007 Exemplar Paper 2 and Memo
• November 2008 Paper 1 and Memo 
• November 2008 Paper 2 and Memo 
• March 2009 and Memo 
• June 2009 Paper 1 (Book 1) and Memo
• June 2009 Paper 2 (Book 2) and Memo
• September 2009 Grade Test and Memo
• Nov 2009 Departmental Paper 1 and Memo 
• Nov 2009 Departmental Paper 2 and Memo 
• March 2010 Grade test and Memo
• May/June 2010 Internal Paper and Memo
• September 2010 Internal Paper and Memo
• November 2010 Paper 1 and Memo
• November 2010 Paper 2 and Memo
• March 2011 paper and Memo
• June 2011 and Memo
• September 2011 and Memo
• November 2011 Paper 1 and Memo
• November 2011 Paper 2 and Memo
• March 2012 and Memo
• June 2012 and Memo
• Sept 2012 and Memo
• November 2012 paper 1 and Memo
• November 2012 paper 2 and Memo

Link to another useful site:

• Department of Education site