Grade 10 Life Sciences past papers and memos

On this page. There are 37 Grade 10 Life Sciences past papers here, from 2015 to 2024, and they come with their memos. Some people call them exam papers or previous question papers. They are the same thing. Every one is a free PDF and none of them ask you to sign up.

Yes. The memo, which is the marking guideline the examiners use, sits on the same row as the paper it belongs to, so you download the two together rather than hunting for them separately.

The Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal and North West. Every paper here was set by an education department. Some departments put their papers online, and we take those from the department. Others do not, so we find their papers elsewhere and check each one against its cover before we add it. If you cannot find your province, a national paper is set to the same CAPS curriculum and is just as good to practise on.

Every term the department published one for. Term 4 is the November exams, Term 3 is the September exams, Term 2 is the May/June exams, Term 1 is the Feb/March exams. Each paper in the list is labelled both ways, so it does not matter whether your school talks in terms or in months.

Paper 1 is out of 150 marks and you get 2½ hours to write it. It covers 7 areas: Plant and animal tissues; Cells: the basic units of life; Support and transport systems in plants; Support systems in animals; Chemistry of life; Cell division: mitosis; Plant organs (the leaf). The marks for each one are set out above.

No. These are NSC papers, set by the Department of Basic Education and the provinces for the government curriculum, CAPS. If you are at an IEB school the content overlaps a great deal, but the papers are set separately and are not on this page.

The newest one. Start with 2024 and work backwards. The examiners who set the most recent papers are the ones setting yours, and how they word a question matters as much as what it is about.