Matric past papers, sorted by topic
Every question from the Grade 12 NSC mathematics papers set by the DBE, cut out of the papers and gathered into one booklet per topic — 169 questions, 2 400 marks across 10 booklets, each with the board’s own marking guideline and each in English and Afrikaans. Free to download.
A past paper makes you jump between topics the way the exam does, which is the right practice in October and the wrong practice in April. These are the same questions rearranged: all the calculus together, all the trigonometry together, so you can finish a topic before you move on.
DBE (CAPS)
The Department of Basic Education sets the NSC papers written by every public school and most independent ones. If your school is not an IEB school, this is the paper you write.
169 questions · 2 400 marks · 10 booklets, each in English and Afrikaans
| Topic | Paper | Questions | Marks |
|---|---|---|---|
| Algebra and equations | Paper 1 | 8 | 201 |
| Patterns, sequences and series | Paper 1 | 17 | 205 |
| Functions and graphs | Paper 1 | 22 | 277 |
| Finance, growth and decay | Paper 1 | 8 | 114 |
| Differential calculus | Paper 1 | 22 | 283 |
| Probability | Paper 1 | 10 | 120 |
| Statistics | Paper 2 | 16 | 163 |
| Analytical geometry | Paper 2 | 16 | 319 |
| Trigonometry | Paper 2 | 28 | 385 |
| Euclidean geometry | Paper 2 | 22 | 333 |
How the questions were sorted
Every question was classified from the official marking guideline rather than from the question, because the guideline names the method. Each question appears in exactly one booklet, and the booklets for a paper add up to that paper’s full mark total — which is checked on every build, and is what caught a proof going missing out of one paper.
The pages themselves are clips of the original papers. Nothing has been retyped or redrawn, so what you practise on is what the board printed.