Your final-month Matric Maths revision plan
Prioritise high-mark topics, practise timed NSC questions, mark immediately and use Snap2Learn when a worked step is unclear.
The CAPS Grade 12 Mathematics syllabus is fixed — every topic is examinable, and the mark weights barely move from year to year. A topic-by-topic revision plan that follows those weights is the fastest path from a 50% to a 70%.
Paper 1 topics and weights
- Algebra and Equations — 25 marks. Drill quadratic equations, inequalities, simultaneous equations, surds.
- Sequences and Series — 25 marks. Master Tn and Sn formulas for both arithmetic and geometric.
- Functions and Graphs — 35 marks. Sketch, interpret transformations, find inverses.
- Finance, Growth and Decay — 15 marks. Future value, present value, sinking funds, effective vs nominal rate.
- Differential Calculus — 35 marks. First-principles, rules, tangents, optimisation, cubic graphs.
- Probability — 15 marks. Venn diagrams, tree diagrams, fundamental counting principle.
Paper 2 topics and weights
- Statistics — 20 marks. Ogives, standard deviation, regression line, correlation.
- Analytical Geometry — 40 marks. Circle equations, tangents, inclination angles.
- Trigonometry — 50 marks. Identities, general solutions, sine/cosine/area rules, 3D problems.
- Euclidean Geometry — 40 marks. Circle theorems, similarity, proportion theorems.
What to memorise (not on the information sheet)
- Exponent laws and surd rules.
- The derivative rules: the sheet gives only the first-principles definition.
- Reduction formulas, special-angle values, tan θ = sin θ / cos θ and sin²θ + cos²θ = 1.
- The Euclidean geometry theorems, with the reasons accepted in the memo.
A 4-week CAPS revision plan
- Week 1 — Algebra, Sequences, Finance (Paper 1 easy marks).
- Week 2 — Functions and Differential Calculus.
- Week 3 — Trigonometry (identities → general solutions → 2D/3D).
- Week 4 — Euclidean Geometry and Analytical Geometry, then a full timed Paper 1 + Paper 2.
How to revise a topic in one session
- 10 minutes: write the key formulas and methods from memory, then check them.
- 30 minutes: past-paper questions on the topic, marked with the memo.
- 5 minutes: log every mistake and the reason for it.
Exam-day timing
Each paper is 3 hours for 150 marks, which is about 1.2 minutes per mark. Read through the paper first, start with the questions you are surest of, and if a question runs well over its time, move on and come back to it at the end.
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