Matric past papers · DBE (CAPS) · Paper 1
DBE Grade 12 Finance, growth and decay
Every finance, growth and decay question from the DBE NSC Paper 1 papers of November 2021–2024 and May/June 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025, in one booklet — 8 questions, 114 marks, with the official marking guideline for every one of them. Free to download, in English and Afrikaans.
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- Questions (English) 11 pages, 0.4 MB
- Solutions (English) 13 pages, 1.6 MB
- Vrae (Afrikaans) 10 pages, 0.4 MB
- Oplossings (Afrikaans) 13 pages, 1.6 MB
Each question is a clip of the original DBE page: the wording, the mark allocations and the diagrams are exactly as they were printed. Only the blank answer space has been removed, so work in a separate book. The solutions booklet is the board’s own marking guideline, not a rewritten one.
What is in it
8 questions in 1 chapters, ordered so you can work through one skill at a time.
| # | Question | Skills | Marks | From |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Find the rate from four years' growth, then a monthly savings plan | Solving for the interest rate, Compound interest, Future value: saving with regular payments | 13 | May/June 2021 Q7 |
| 2 | A phone's depreciation rate, then two people saving for one holiday | Depreciation on the reducing balance, Solving for the interest rate, Future value: saving with regular payments | 13 | May/June 2024 Q7 |
| 3 | The effective rate, then drawing an income back out of an investment | Nominal and effective interest rates, Compound interest, Present value: loans, and drawing money out | 13 | May/June 2025 Q7 |
| 4 | The rate from 24 months' growth, then a run of monthly deposits | Solving for the interest rate, Compound interest, Future value: saving with regular payments | 14 | November 2022 Q6 |
| 5 | Sixteen years of compound growth, then the rate that halves a value | Compound interest, Depreciation on the reducing balance, Solving for the interest rate | 14 | November 2024 Q7 |
| 6 | How long an investment takes to double, then machinery losing its value | Solving for n - how long it takes, Compound interest, Depreciation on the reducing balance | 15 | May/June 2022 Q7 |
| 7 | A tractor's book value, then how long R75 000 takes to grow | Depreciation on the reducing balance, Solving for n - how long it takes, Future value: saving with regular payments | 16 | November 2021 Q8 |
| 8 | r and the effective rate from six months, then replacing a laptop | Solving for the interest rate, Nominal and effective interest rates, Replacing an asset, Future value: saving with regular payments | 16 | November 2023 Q6 |