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National Senior Certificate Grade 12 with CASS

Congratulations! You are about to enter the last and final stage of an amazing journey. Success in your Grade 12 year will open up a myriad of new & exciting opportunities for you.
A certified, official Grade 11 National Senior Certificate report, which indicates promotion to Grade 12.

The academic year ends 31 December 2013. Learners are required to complete ALL their assessments within a calendar year. This means that you will start your studies in January / February and write your final examinations in October / November. Should you enrol AFTER 15 February you may not sit for the final examinations, write controlled tests or submit assessments tasks in the same year. You may however continue working through the study material, but ALL assessments may only be done the following year the year in which you will write your final examinations.

Subject Selection Process

Make sure that you select the same subjects that you selected in Grade 10 and 11. You are not allowed to have different subject selections for different Grades. Subjects are available in English only. 2 Languages from Group A must be chosen, one of which must be a Home Language. Mathematics OR Mathematics Literacy AND Life Orientation are compulsory. Mathematical Literacy may not be chosen with Physical Sciences and Agricultural Sciences. Mathematics must be chosen with Physical Sciences. We strongly recommend that you choose Mathematics if you choose Accounting.

Subject Selection

Continuous Assessment Task (CASS) / School Based Assessment (SBA)

Continuous Assessment is assessment that takes place throughout the year. It consists of various types of assessment tasks such as research projects, controlled tests, investigation tasks, written reports, etc. All continuous assessments for Grade 12, which includes the mock examinations, will be conducted by the College. Your CASS marks and your final examination marks will determine whether you will qualify as a candidate for the National Senior Certificate. You will be provided with a study schedule (which can be found in your study guide) AND an assessment timetable, which will be in the enrolment pack that you will receive after enrolment. The assessment timetable will also be available on the College website. If you enrol in the year preceding the start of your academic year, you must contact the College for a timetable that is applicable to the year in which you will be doing your assessments. All continuous assessment tasks have to be completed and submitted for marking within the timeframes prescribed by the College. The CASS mark contributes 25% towards your total mark and the final examination contributes 75% towards your total mark.

Controlled Tests

You must write controlled tests for all the subjects that you are studying. This will be in addition to the examinations that will also be written for each subject that you are studying. Controlled tests are tests that take place under supervised, examination conditions. It is a shorter version of an examination. The dates and times for controlled tests will be in the enrolment pack that you will receive after enrolment. It will also be posted on the College website. These dates and times are subject to change. You must consult the College website (www.dcc.edu.za) for the most up-to-date information. You must write your controlled tests and do other assessment tasks in the same year that you register to write the internal mock examination and final external examinations. The College will only provide controlled test venues in major centres in each province. Special arrangements cannot be made for learners who live on the outskirts of major centres. If you do not write your controlled tests internal examinations and do the other continuous assessment tasks for all the subjects that you are studying, your final mark will be incomplete, and you will not be resulted by the College for your internal mock examination, nor will you be resulted for the external examination that will be conducted by the Department of Basic Education. You will be provided with a study schedule, which can be found in your study guide.

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Life Orientation Oral Component for Languages

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One of the tasks that you have to complete for Life Orientation is a Physical Education Task (PET). This task comprises three sections. One section will be completed for each of the 3 terms. You have to attend face-to-face contact sessions throughout the year, with a Life Orientation educator, for the evaluation of your Physical Education Task (PET). Your study guide for Life Orientation will stipulate the number of compulsory contact sessions for each section of this task. The dates on which assessment for the PET task will take place will be in the Orientation Guide that will be included with your enrolment pack. The College will inform you if there are any changes to these dates. You must also check the College website regularly for the latest information available. Additional information for the completion of this task is available from the College. You will be required to do assessments for the Oral component of the languages that you are studying. These will be face-to-face contact sessions with qualified language educators. The assessment for the Oral component for languages is a formal examination that is compulsory. It will form part of your CASS mark and part of your final examination mark. The College will appoint a qualified language educator who will conduct the assessment for the oral component of the languages that you have chosen to study. The dates on which the oral examination will take place will be in the enrolment pack that you will receive after enrolment. These dates are subject to change. You must consult the College website (www.dcc.edu.za) for the latest information available. If you enrol in the year preceding the start of your academic year, you must contact the College for a timetable that is applicable to the year in which you will be doing your assessments. Venues at which oral examinations will take place will be provided by Damelin Correspondence College. Venues will be in major centres only. Special arrangements cannot be made for learners who live on the outskirts of major centres.

Learner Evidence of Performance File / Portfolio

You must, as part of your studies, compile a portfolio for each subject. A portfolio for a particular subject will contain all the required continuous assessment tasks/assignments that you have completed (and that have been marked) for each subject. You must keep your portfolio for each subject neatly filed in a safe place for the duration of your studies (and at least 6 months after the final external examinations have been written), because the College may, at any time, request that you submit it for moderation. Your portfolio will be internally moderated by the College AND externally moderated by the Department of Education.

Examinations

Grade 12 learners will write 2 full scale examinations: a final external examination administered by the Department of Basic Education, and an internal mock examination administered by the College. All examination fees are excluded from the enrolment fees.

External Examinations

External Grade 12 examinations are conducted by the Department of Basic Education. You must be registered for these examinations by 15 March of the year in which you want to write the October / November final external examinations. Contact a Student Consultant for information on how to register for the final external examinations. The examination fees for the final external examination will be determined by the examination venue at which you will write. You will be examined on prescribed literature for all languages that you select. Prescribed textbooks and additional study aids for prescribed literature are NOT included in the course. You will have to source and purchase prescribed literature textbooks and additional study aids from external suppliers and publishers. UMALUSI will issue you with a National Senior Certificate after it has been determined that you meet the minimum pass requirements for the National Senior Certificate.

Internal Examination

You must write the internal mock examination in the same year that you register to write the final external examinations. If you do not register for the mock examination, register for other controlled assessments and complete other assessment tasks, your final mark will be incomplete, and you will not be resulted. The internal mock examination is administered by Damelin Correspondence College in August/September. The registration closing date for the mock examination will be 20 February 2013. You may visit the Colleges website (www.dcc.edu.za) or you may contact a Student Consultant to confirm the closing date. Examination venues will be provided in major centres in each province. Special arrangements cannot be made for learners who live on the outskirts of major centres. Examination fees for the mock examinations are excluded from your enrolment fees. These examination fees are R450 per subject and are subject to change. Examination fees are payable upon registration for the Mock Examination before or on 20 February 2013. You will be examined and assessed on prescribed literature for all languages that you select. Prescribed textbooks and additional study aids for prescribed literature are NOT included in the course. You will have to source and purchase prescribed literature textbooks and additional study aids from external suppliers and publishers. The College will issue you with a progress report for the mock examinations.

NB: Registration with the College for internal examinations and registration with the Department of Basic Education for external national
examinations are two SEPERATE processes.

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Minimum pass requirements You need to complete all the assessment requirements for 7 subjects, 4 of which are compulsory subjects, and are called fundamentals. The other 3 subjects are called electives. The Fundamentals are: a Home Language, a First Additional Language, Life Orientation, Mathematics or Mathematical Literacy. You need to obtain 40% for 3 subjects, one of which must be a Home Language. The other 2 can be any other 2 subjects. You will be required to obtain 30% for 3 other subjects. In summary: You need to pass 3 subjects with 40% (of which one must be a Home Language) and 3 with 30%. You may obtain less than 30% for the 7th subject, but all assessments, including all Continuous Assessment Tasks (CASS) and examinations, must have been written for the 7th subject. Higher Certificate The minimum admission requirement is a National Senior Certificate with a minimum of 30% in the language of learning and teaching of the Higher Education institution at which you wish to pursue your studies. The Higher Education Institution may have requirements in addition to the minimum requirements for the National Senior Certificate,that you may have to fulfil for the field study that you wish to pursue. You may have to have a certain combination of recognised NSC subjects, and levels of achievement in those subjects, as determined by the Higher Education institution of your choice, before being considered for further studies at a Higher Education institution.

Diploma

The minimum admission requirement is a National Senior Certificate with a minimum of 30% in the language of learning and teaching of the Higher Education institution at which you wish to pursue your studies. This must be coupled with an achievement rating of 3 (Moderate Achievement, 40-49%) or better, in four recognised NSC 20-credit subjects. NB: One of the minimum requirements for obtaining a National Senior Certificate is a minimum achievement rating of 3 (Moderate achievement, 40-49%) in a Home Language. The Higher Education institution may have requirements in addition to the minimum requirements for the National Senior Certificate, that you may have to fulfil for the field of study that you wish to pursue. You may have to have a certain combination of recognised NSC subjects, and levels of achievement in those subjects, as determined by the Higher Education institution of your choice, before being considered for further studies at a Higher Education institution.

Bachelors Degree

The minimum admission requirement is a National Senior Certificate with a minimum of 30% in the language of learning and teaching of the Higher Education institution at which you wish to pursue your studies. This must be coupled with an achievement rating of 4 (Adequate Achievement, 50-59%) or better, in four subjects chosen from the recognised 20-credit NSC subject designated list below. 20-credit NSC Subject list (** Subjects not offered at Damelin Correspondence College) Accounting / Information Technology ** / Agricultural Sciences / Languages / Business Studies / Life Sciences / Consumer Studies ** / Mathematics / Dramatic Arts ** / Mathematical Literacy / Economics / Music ** / Engineering Graphic & Design ** / Physical Sciences / Geography / Religion Studies ** / History / Visual Arts ** The Higher Education institution may have requirements in addition to the minimum requirements for the National Senior Certificate, which you may have to fulfil for the field of study that you wish to pursue. You may have to have a certain combination of recognised NSC subjects, and levels of achievement in those subjects, as determined by the Higher Education institution of your choice, before being considered for further studies at a Higher Education institution.

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Subjects Grouping: Group A
English Home Language (First Language) English First Additional Language (Second Language) Afrikaans Huis Taal (Eerste Taal) Afrikaans Eerste Addisionele Taal (Tweede Taal) Mathematics OR Mathematical Literacy AND Life Orientation

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Please choose your subjects from the appropriate group below: SUBJECTS ARE NOT OFFERED IN AFRIKAANS ON THE NATIONAL SENIOR CERTIFICATE. SUBJECTS ARE IN ENGLISH ONLY. COMPULSORY SUBJECTS: LANGUAGES Two languages need to be chosen. At least one language must be a Home language. Prescribed literature textbooks are not provided by the College and will have to be purchased. Choose either Mathematics OR Mathematical Literacy. You will require a scientific non-programmable calculator for Mathematics and Mathematical Literacy.

Group B

BUSINESS, COMMERCE MANAGEMENT STUDIES AND SERVICES Accounting Economics Business Studies HUMAN AND SOCIAL STUDIES AND LANGUAGES Choose a language from this group only if it is not already chosen from Group A. Geography History English Home Language (First Language) English First Additional Language (Second Language) Afrikaans Huis Taal (Eerste Taal) Afrikaans Eerste Addisionele Taal (Tweede Taal) PHYSICAL, LIFE AND AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES Agricultural Sciences Physical Sciences Life Sciences

Umalusi Accreditation
Damelin Correspondence College (Pty) Ltd has been awarded provisional accreditation by Umalusi. Umalusi is the Council for Quality Assurance in General and Further Education and Training in South Africa - see www.umalusi.org.za Employers are legally permitted to claim from the Skills Levy Fund for investing in their employees education, and are required to quote the following Provisional Accreditation No.: FET 00475 PA.

DHET Registration
Damelin Correspondence College (Pty) Ltd has been granted provisional registration by the Department of Higher Education and Training as a private FET College, until 31 December 2014. Provisional registration No. 2008/FE0/037 - see www.dhet.gov.za. For further information please refer to our website: www.dcc.edu.za Damelin Correspondence College (Pty) Ltd is committed to meeting legislative requirements regarding accreditation and registration of private education and training providers in South Africa.

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