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PAPER

QUESTION AND REPORT COMMENT

2013/3

5 (a) Learners could not write down the equation, and (b) many learners had no idea on how to solve a factored out quadratic equation.

2014/3

7 (b) (iv) Poorly answered 8 (c). Surprisingly, this part was fairly answered (changing the subject of the formula).

2015/3

10 (b)-(d) Poorly answered, most learners couldn’t substitute correctly, change the subject of the formula, and could not factorize

2016/3

8 The question of algebra seemed very challenging to many learners. Learners struggled to collect like terms

2017

4 (b)-(c) Poorly answered 4 (b) learners could not substitute properly and make N the subject of the formula; 4 (c) Learners could not remove the brackets correctly.