HOW TO START PREPARING FOR GRADE 12
Summary
TLDRThis educational video targets high school students, particularly those in grade 12, offering crucial tips for academic success. The speaker emphasizes the importance of early preparation, highlighting the significance of consistent effort throughout the year. Specific advice is given for language subjects, suggesting strategies like reading extensively and creating writing templates. The video also touches on life orientation, advising students to stay informed about current events and to engage with their textbooks actively. For mathematics, the speaker recommends solidifying grade 11 concepts before advancing. Overall tips include gathering resources, understanding the academic calendar, and considering tutoring for additional support.
Takeaways
- 📚 Start preparing for grade 12 as soon as possible, as it is a crucial year for higher education applications.
- 🔑 Don't underestimate the importance of languages; they can significantly impact your academic results.
- 📖 Reading regularly is essential for improving vocabulary, comprehension, grammar, and writing skills in language subjects.
- 📘 For literature, start reading the required novels and short stories early and create summaries to aid understanding.
- ✍️ Develop templates for transactional writing to ensure you have a structured approach to different types of writing tasks.
- 🧭 Life Orientation, like languages, is often overlooked but can be a key determinant of your final grade.
- 📈 If you struggled with math in grade 11, revisit those concepts before moving on to grade 12 material.
- 📈 Mathematics in grade 12 builds on grade 11 knowledge, so mastering the previous year's work is vital.
- 📆 Familiarize yourself with your academic calendar to plan your study schedule effectively.
- 📝 Obtain a teacher's guide to stay ahead and be prepared for assignments, tests, and practicals.
- 👨🏫 Consider finding a tutor or attending extra classes to reinforce learning and get additional support.
Q & A
Why is grade 12 considered the most important in academic life?
-Grade 12 is considered the most important because it is a deciding grade that determines whether you get accepted to higher institutions and study the career of your choice.
Why should students start preparing for grade 12 immediately after finishing grade 11?
-Students should start preparing immediately because grade 12 is the shortest and starts in January, ending in July, giving them little time to prepare. Also, March and June results are as crucial as September and final results for college applications.
What is the significance of reading in improving language skills according to the video?
-Reading is significant for improving vocabulary, comprehension skills, grammar, and writing skills. It also helps in understanding new words and their meanings, which can be beneficial during exams.
How does the video suggest students prepare for paper two of English language exams?
-The video suggests starting to read the novels and short stories that will be covered in grade 12 as early as possible, making summaries to have background knowledge, and using study guides for literature with summaries and practice questions.
What is the recommended approach to paper three of language exams, according to the video?
-The recommended approach is to create templates for each type of writing, such as formal letters, informal letters, CVs, agendas, and minutes, and to use and refine these templates through practice and feedback.
Why is life orientation a subject that should not be ignored in grade 12?
-Life orientation should not be ignored because it is one of the subjects most likely to betray students in terms of grades. It has no final exam, and the trial exam is the final mark, making class marks, assignments, and class tests very important.
How does the video suggest students approach mathematics in grade 12?
-The video suggests that students should master grade 11 mathematics before moving on to grade 12, as the challenges and content are similar. It also advises revisiting grade 11 challenges if not understood.
What overall tips does the video provide for preparing for grade 12?
-The video provides tips such as gathering resources, knowing the academic calendar, getting a teacher's guide, and finding a tutor. It also emphasizes the importance of not having free time and utilizing every opportunity to study and prepare.
Why is it beneficial to have a teacher's guide according to the video?
-A teacher's guide is beneficial because it provides information about the academic year, including when class tests and assignments are due, what content they cover, and when practicals and other assessments will take place.
What is the advice given in the video regarding finding a tutor for grade 12?
-The advice is to find a private tutor or attend extra classes as much as possible, even if it means not having free weekends or holidays, to ensure thorough preparation for grade 12.
Outlines
📚 Preparing for Grade 12: Importance and Strategies
This paragraph emphasizes the critical nature of Grade 12, being the most important academic year that determines higher education opportunities. The speaker suggests starting preparations early, as Grade 12 is also the shortest, running from January to July. The speaker shares personal success in securing admission to medical school based on mid-year results, highlighting the significance of consistent academic performance. The paragraph concludes with advice to start preparing immediately, especially in languages, which are often underestimated but can significantly impact academic outcomes.
📖 Language Studies: Tips for English Exam Success
The speaker provides detailed advice on how to excel in English language exams, which are divided into three papers: comprehension and language structures, literature, and writing. For paper one, the focus is on understanding context, tenses, idioms, and sentence construction, with the recommendation to use an English handbook. Reading is stressed as essential for vocabulary, comprehension, grammar, and writing skills. For paper two, literature, the speaker advises starting early with novels and short stories, making summaries for better understanding. Study guides are recommended for literature. Paper three, writing, is considered the easiest if one has a structured approach to different types of writing, suggesting the creation and refinement of templates for various writing tasks.
🧭 General Academic Tips for Grade 12 Success
The final paragraph offers general tips for academic success in Grade 12. It starts with advice on mastering Grade 11 work to prepare for Grade 12, especially in mathematics, where the content is largely similar. The speaker also suggests gathering resources, understanding the academic calendar, obtaining a teacher's guide for a structured study plan, and considering tutoring or extra classes. The paragraph concludes with a reminder to subscribe for future videos on study timetables and skills, encouraging students to make the most of their Grade 12 year.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Grade 12
💡Academic Year
💡Comprehension
💡Vocabulary
💡Literature
💡Templates
💡Life Orientation
💡Mathematics
💡Study Guides
💡Teacher's Guide
💡Tutor
Highlights
The video focuses on preparing for grade 12, which is crucial for higher education and career choices.
It's advised to start preparing for the next academic year early, especially for grade 12.
Grade 12 is the shortest academic year, running from January to July.
March and June results are as important as September and final results for university applications.
The speaker was accepted to medical schools with March and June results alone.
Languages are often underestimated but can significantly impact academic performance.
Reading is essential for improving vocabulary, comprehension, grammar, and writing skills in languages.
For literature, starting to read the required novels early can give a significant advantage.
Having templates for transactional writing can improve structure and scores in language exams.
Life orientation, despite being overlooked, can betray students if not studied.
Reading and summarizing life orientation notes can help accumulate good class marks.
Students should know their academic calendar and teacher's guide to prepare for assignments and tests.
Mastering grade 11 math is key to succeeding in grade 12 math.
Past papers show that grade 11 and grade 12 math questions are very similar.
Gathering resources, knowing the academic calendar, and having a teacher's guide are essential for grade 12 preparation.
Finding a tutor or attending extra classes can provide additional learning opportunities.
The speaker will return in January to discuss study timetables and study skills.
Transcripts
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so this video will mainly focus on grade
12 but these tips are very useful to
anyone in high school proceeding to the
next grade the next academic year is in
less than a month so it is definitely
not too early to start preparing for
your next grade especially grade 12.
before we proceed with the video I would
like to ask you just for one thing
please click the Subscribe button and
like this video in return for the
wonderful tips that I'm about to give
you that made me get the best marks in
grade 12. grade 12 is probably the most
most important grade in your academic
life because it is a deciding grade
whether you get accepted to higher
institutions and you get to study the
career of your choice so the sooner you
start preparing for it the better while
it is the most important grade it is
also the shortest grade of them all
because it starts in January and ends in
July so you do not really have enough
time
after finishing grade 11 I knew that I
had to start preparing for grade 12
immediately because I needed these
results to apply your March and June
results are as important as your
September and final results because if
you get bad results in March and June
and get rejected they won't even get to
consider your brilliant final results so
you need to start working hard from the
beginning just to share my brief
experience I got accepted to events and
Stellenbosch for Medicine by just
submitting my March and June results as
as I always say failing to prepare is
preparing to fail so I'm going to be
sharing with you how to start preparing
for your grade half so you need to take
a pen and a paper for this one so let's
start with the languages I know that
most students don't pay that much
attention to languages because we are
thinking those are the easy subjects we
are more worried about math and physical
sciences and life sciences and I'm
telling you languages are the most
likely to betray you when it comes to
your report or your final statements so
these tips apply to any languages
whether you're doing first additional
second additional home language I'm just
going to give you the tips in general
so in English you have three papers
paper one is for languages in context
which consists of comprehension summary
and language structures paper two is
literature which consists of novels
dramas short stories and poetry and
paper three is writing which is your
essays and your transactional writing
let's talk about paper one
so paper one is mostly about you
understanding the comprehension and be
able to answer the questions and you
also have to know your tenses your
idioms how to construct your sentences
and all of that and for that you need
your English handbook I used this book
throughout my metric and it helped me a
lot but let me tell you something I wish
I had done more and that is reading you
need to read you need to pick up a book
and read as a young person either you're
reading short stories from a magazine
you're reading your novels it is so
important because when you're reading
you're gonna come across this word that
you don't understand and you pick your
dictionary and find the meaning and it
might happen that you find the exact
word in your exam reading is good for
improving your vocabulary improving your
comprehension skills it improves your
grammar and it also improves your
writing skills coming to paper two this
was the most challenging paper for me
because I didn't get enough time to
prepare and this is going to be a
difficult paper for you as well if you
do not start preparing today
the short stories and the novel that
you're going to be reading in grade 12
is already available for you why don't
you start reading start reading your
novel today while you still have time
make a summary so that it is easier for
you when you are reading it in class
that you already have background
knowledge and you can start asking
questions about it so I've linked
different study guides to help you with
your literature in the description box
it is available for all the languages
that are done in high school it
interprets the literature gives you the
summary and their practice questions for
you to do coming to paper three this has
to be the easiest paper of your
languages because you already know what
to expect when it comes to it it's a you
know that you will write either your
narrative is say descriptive is a
reflective essay or argumentative essay
there is no surprise and when it comes
to your short transactional writing you
know that it is either your formal
letter application letter friendly
letter your CV agenda and minutes
advertisement newspaper article
Etc so you get into the exam already
having a scope of what to expect but the
reason why you are not getting the best
Mark in this paper it is because you do
not prepare properly and you do not have
a structure when it comes to your
writing even though having good vocab is
important for this paper but the most
important thing is following a structure
so the best way to prepare for this
paper is having in templates have a
specific template for each and every
kind of writing that you will follow so
write a template of your formal letter
your informal letter your CV your agenda
and minutes your review and all the
possible transactional writing that they
might ask you and ask your teacher to
help you with the editing or review use
the same templates for your match exams
and when you get feedback update that
template and use it for your Junior exam
after you get the feedback use that same
template for your September exam I
promise you when it comes to your final
exam you will have perfect templates and
you will send a high chance of scoring a
hundred percent and please make sure you
share this video with your classmates
because I am definitely sure that they
will also like to hear these tips
moving on to life orientation this
subject is similar to languages most
people ignore it and it is one of the
most likely subjects to betray you
so as we all know that there is no final
exam for Life orientation your final
exam is your trial exam which means you
do not have enough time so when it comes
to life orientation your class Mark is
probably the most important I'm talking
about your assignments and your class
tests because these are the marks that
are gonna accumulate and make your final
Mark I know most students always tell
themselves that life orientation is all
about general knowledge that do not
really need to study it I promise you in
grade 12 you need to study your life
orientation even though it is general
knowledge but the only way for you to
get the general knowledge is by reading
not by just hearsays so when it comes to
life orientation they are most likely to
ask you about the current situations
that are happening in our country so
honestly watching news might be boring
but trust me it might help you in your
exam I suggest to you that you take your
textbook today and start reading and
writing summaries imagine starting your
grade 12 with all the life orientation
notes summarized find study guides
online or buy yourself a study guide and
start summarizing your notes today
did you know that as a student you do
have the right to know when they're
gonna give you an assignment when
they're gonna give you a test it doesn't
have to be a surprise you do not really
need to wait for a teacher to tell you
on the day that you have an assignment
that is due in three days so what you
can do is ask for a teacher's guide that
has all the information about your
Academic Year when are you gonna write
that class test and what content does it
consist of when are you gonna write that
assignment what is the assignment about
and when is it due now let's talk about
mathematics a if you know that you
didn't do well in grade 11 when it comes
to maths please don't even bother
yourself with starting with grade 12's
work because the work is similar the
challenges you are facing in grade 11
are the challenges that you're going to
be facing in grade 12 if there are
Concepts that you didn't understand in
Creative living you still won't be able
to understand them in grade 12 if you do
not go over them so the best way to
prepare for your grade 12 maths is to
First make sure that you've mastered
your grade 11 work if you've mastered
your grade 11 work I promise you you can
write a grade 12 final paper and get at
least 70 percent because when it comes
to grade 12 in each and every topic they
add maybe a certain rule or a certain
formula but most of the content is
similar to grade 11. let's take a look
at the past papers for example one of
them is grade 11 and one of the them is
great health they are both final exam
papers can you tell the difference
the questions look so similar here's
another example from another paper this
is a grade 11 and a grade 12 paper they
all look similar it's the same topic
same graphs they are asking more or less
the same questions so my point is if you
want to prepare for maths grade 12 make
sure that you've mastered grade 11. if
you still had challenges in grade 11 go
back to those challenges right now
coming to those who have mastered their
grade 11 work and they've been getting
good results as I've said grade 11 and
grade 12 work is very similar do not be
afraid to take that grade 12 paper and
start tackling it do not be afraid to
start watching very tough YouTube videos
to take that grade 12 study guide and
start working so now I'm Gonna Give You
overall tips that are going to help you
to prepare for your grade 12. number one
gather your resources now buy your study
guides get your textbooks
search for YouTube channels that teach
the subjects you are studying the best
because you will need those the second
thing is know your academic calendar I
know most people don't really pay
attention to this but it can really help
you to know when is your term ending and
when are you writing your exams so that
you can prepare yourself ahead of time
the third thing is get that teacher's
guide get that teacher's guide it tells
you what topics are you going to be
studying for each term and how long you
should spend time on each topic so that
you can be able to check yourself
whether you are remaining behind or not
another thing it does tell you when are
you getting your assignments and what
topics your assignment when are you
getting practicals and what is the
Practical gonna be about and all the
class tests that are gonna happen also
you get to know the waiting for each
practical assignment and test
some of the teacher's guides are
available online that you can download
but I think the most accurate one is the
one you get from your teacher from your
school the last important tip that I'm
about to give you is find a tutor
even though at school I knew that I
didn't have problem with learning the
content understanding it and getting
good marks but I felt the need to find a
tutor because you can never learn enough
so if there is a possibility find a
private tutor or go to extra classes as
much as possible in grade 12 do not ever
have a free weekend do not ever be free
on holidays if your school doesn't offer
extra classes go find a school that
offers extra classes I know for those
who go to private schools it is rare
that they offer extra classes for free
but there is probably a public school
that you know about that won't have
problems with you joining them for extra
classes so please arrange all of that in
time so we've come to the end of the
video I'm gonna see you again in January
when we are drafting those study
timetables when we are learning more
study skills so be sure to subscribe to
my channel and share this video with
your classmates I'll see you again on
another video bye for now
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