Grade 11 LIFE ORIENTATION

June Exam Outline 2016

Dear Grade 11's

Duration of paper: 2 hours

Mark allocation: 80 marks

Please study the following content for your exam:

UNIT 1: DEVELOPMENT OF SELF IN SOCIETY

Plan and achieve life goals
 Types of goals
 Steps in planning and goal-setting
 Problem solving skills
 Perseverance and persistence
 Important goals and prioritizing
 The relationship between personal values, choices and goal-setting
Relationships and their influence on your well-being
 Well-being and relationships
 Relationship types with different people or groups and their changing nature
 Social and cultural views that influence and affect relationships
 Qualities in relationships
 Individuality in relationships
 Impact of the media on values and beliefs about relationships
UNIT 2: PHYSICAL EDUCATION
Safety in physical fitness activities
 Warm up and cool down
 Spacing during physical activities
 Clothing
 Footwear
 Drink enough water
 Use sun protection
 Know when to stop exercising
 Be careful when you use weights
 Avoid performance enhancing drugs
Improve your physical fitness and health
 Assess your physical fitness and health
 Measure your cardiorespiratory endurance
 Measure your flexibility
 Measure your muscular strength and endurance
Improve your physical fitness and health
 Aerobic exercise
 Aerobic dance
 Jump rope
 Running and sprinting
 Power walking
 Strength training
 Fitness circuit
UNIT 3: CAREER AND CAREER CHOICES
Requirements for admission to additional and higher education
 Types of qualifications
 Requirements for admission to additional courses: FET colleges
  Admission points score
 NSC subjects
 Minimum requirements for admission to study for a higher certificate, diploma
or bachelor’s degree
 Admission requirements for specific programmes or courses
Options for financial assistance
 Types of financial assistance
UNIT 4: DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Principles, processes and procedures for democratic participation
 Public participation
 Public participation and the petition process
 Law making process
 Rule of law
 Transparency
 Representation
 Accountability
 Political structures
 Local community structures
 Principles and functions of democratic structures
 Processes for participating in the structures and in the governance and law-
making process of the country
The role of sport in nation building: Participant and spectator behavior in sport
 Incidence of particular behavior
 Exposure to positive behavior programme
 The impact of behavior on participants
 How sport can support or detract from nation building
UNIT 5: STUDY SKILLS
Apply study skills, study styles and study strategies
 Examine how learning takes place and reflect on effectiveness
 Study styles as a preferred way of approaching tasks
 Study strategy as a way to approach a specific task in light of perceived
demands
 Left and right brain dominance
Examination writing skills and process of assessment
 Exam writing skills
 Preparing for an examination
 How to answer different types of questions
 Common exam errors
 Understand key words
 Process of assessment: Analyse performances in assessment tasks
Time management skills and annual study plan
 Time management skills
 When do you study the best
 Manage your time
 Draw up an annual study plan
Goal setting skills: Personal development goals regarding study, health and fitness
 Personal development goals: Study
 Personal development goals: Health and fitness