PHYSICAL SCIENCES
GRADE 12
PAPER 2
NSC PAST PAPERS AND MEMOS
SEPTEMBER 2017
The Physical Sciences P2 Grade 12 September was written on Monday, 06 September 2017. During the course of marking a number of corrections and additions that needed to be affected was brought to our attention. In order to ensure that a standardised approach to marking is adopted across the Province and ensure that learners are not disadvantaged the examiner and moderator were asked to prepare an errata which should address all the concerns raised.
QUEST. | MARKS | ||
4.2.2 | Bonds shifted during the printing process with regard to the table – candidates will not be able to answer 4.2.2. | Mark out of 149 and scale up to 150 | |
4.2.3 | 24 dm3 used for Vm in place of 22.4 dm3 | n(O2) = V/Vm = 96/22.4 = 4.29 mol | |
7.2.3 | Concentration used is 0.2 mol.dm-3 in place of 0.1 mol.dm-3 | n = cV = 0.1 x 20/1000 | |
7.2.4 | n(H2X) = ½ x (0.002) = 0.001 mol |