Grade 11 Accounting Past Papers and Memos

The matric Accounting paper tests the whole Grade 12 year, plus these Grade 11 topics. The Department's exam guidelines say so. It is worth learning them properly now, because you write them again next year.

Paper 2

Reconciliations: bank, debtor and creditor. You prepare them this year, matric analyses and interprets them
Cost accounting ledger accounts, which matric turns into the Production Cost Statement
Preparing cash budgets and projected income statements, which matric analyses rather than prepares

The financial indicators keep stacking

Every grade keeps the ones before it and adds more.

Grade 10 examines four: gross profit on cost of sales, net profit on sales, operating expenses on sales, operating profit on sales
Grade 11 adds four more: stock turnover rate, stockholding period, average debtors' collection period, average creditors' payment period
Grade 12 keeps all eight and adds the break-even point

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Grade 11 Accounting past paper questions

Where can I download Grade 11 Accounting past papers and memos?

On this page. There are 79 Grade 11 Accounting past papers here, from 2013 to 2026, 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.

Do the papers come with memos?

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.

Which provinces are these Accounting papers from?

The Department of Basic Education, the Eastern Cape, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo 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.

Which term are these Accounting papers from?

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.

Are these IEB papers?

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.

Which paper should I start with?

The newest one. Start with 2026 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.

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Published 16 Apr 2026 · Updated 06 Oct 2026 by NavyBlue Editorial Team

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