Northern Cape past papers and memos

On this page. There are 8 Northern Cape papers here, 2017 to 2026, free to download as PDFs with their memos. They were set by the Northern Cape Department of Education for the schools it runs.

The list above shows every subject we hold Northern Cape papers for and how many there are. Tap a subject to open its full archive, which carries the Northern Cape papers alongside the national ones and the other provinces, so you can work through more than one version of the same paper.

The ones here are May/June (Term 2), September (Term 3). A province sets the papers its own schools write through the year, including the September preparatory exams that Grade 12 writes as a rehearsal for the finals.

Yes. Every province teaches the same CAPS curriculum and every matric writes the same national paper in November, so a Northern Cape paper tests the same content yours will. It is worth writing whichever papers you can get, and we do not hold papers for every province because not every department publishes them online.