Matric past papers · DBE (CAPS) · Paper 2
DBE Grade 12 Statistics
Every statistics question from the DBE NSC Paper 2 papers of November 2021–2024 and May/June 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025, in one booklet — 16 questions, 163 marks, with the official marking guideline for every one of them. Free to download, in English and Afrikaans.
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- Questions (English) 24 pages, 1.0 MB
- Solutions (English) 19 pages, 1.5 MB
- Vrae (Afrikaans) 24 pages, 1.0 MB
- Oplossings (Afrikaans) 19 pages, 1.5 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
16 questions in 3 chapters, ordered so you can work through one skill at a time.
| # | Question | Skills | Marks | From |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Glasses of water a day, from a frequency table | Mean, median and mode, Grouped data and the estimated mean | 8 | November 2023 Q2 |
| 2 | Fifteen insurance premiums: the mean, then the spread | Mean, median and mode, Standard deviation, Outliers | 9 | May/June 2025 Q1 |
| 3 | Loaves of bread over 18 days, and the values that sit far out | Mean, median and mode, Standard deviation, Outliers | 10 | November 2021 Q1 |
| 4 | Fifteen days of mobile data: the mean, then the standard deviation | Mean, median and mode, Standard deviation, Outliers, Quartiles and the five-number summary | 14 | May/June 2021 Q1 |
| 5 | An ogive of what employees spend on fuel | Cumulative frequency curves (ogives), Grouped data and the estimated mean, Mean, median and mode | 8 | November 2022 Q2 |
| 6 | Days absent, grouped: the modal class and an estimated mean | Grouped data and the estimated mean, Modal and median class, Mean, median and mode | 9 | May/June 2021 Q2 |
| 7 | Sixty travel times on one ogive, then a rule about working from home | Cumulative frequency curves (ogives), Quartiles and the five-number summary, Grouped data and the estimated mean | 10 | November 2024 Q2 |
| 8 | How far fifty athletes travel to reach a training facility | Grouped data and the estimated mean, Cumulative frequency curves (ogives), Mean, median and mode | 11 | May/June 2024 Q2 |
| 9 | Eighty school bags: build the cumulative column, then the ogive | Grouped data and the estimated mean, Modal and median class, Cumulative frequency curves (ogives) | 12 | May/June 2022 Q1 |
| 10 | Diamonds: size against price, with the line already drawn | Scatter plots, The least squares regression line, Predicting from the line | 8 | May/June 2022 Q2 |
| 11 | Milk: the price against how many containers sell | Scatter plots, The least squares regression line, Predicting from the line | 10 | November 2021 Q2 |
| 12 | Pages against weight for ten books | Scatter plots, The least squares regression line, The correlation coefficient | 10 | May/June 2024 Q1 |
| 13 | Rugby players: weight against push-ups in a minute | Scatter plots, The least squares regression line, The correlation coefficient | 10 | November 2024 Q1 |
| 14 | Online orders against the time taken to pack them | Scatter plots, The least squares regression line, The correlation coefficient, Predicting from the line | 10 | May/June 2025 Q2 |
| 15 | IQ against votes received - and whether that means anything | Scatter plots, The correlation coefficient, The least squares regression line | 12 | November 2022 Q1 |
| 16 | How far a truck driver travels against how long he rests | Scatter plots, The least squares regression line, The correlation coefficient, Predicting from the line | 12 | November 2023 Q1 |