Physical & Life Sciences Past Papers & Memos

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These link directly to the Department of Basic Education's own official pages, which list every subject, language and paper for that year. Always the current, correct file — DBE hosts and updates it themselves.

How to actually use these papers

• Physical Sciences Paper 1 is Physics, Paper 2 is Chemistry — they need separate revision plans, not one combined one.
• Data-based questions (graphs, tables) show up every year — practise reading and interpreting data, not just formulas.
• Life Sciences rewards precise terminology — memo markers often want the exact biological term, not a rough description.
• Redo diagrams from memory after each past paper; labelling mistakes are one of the most common easy marks lost.