Toolkits
Deep dives on the ideas that show up everywhere. Each one starts with why the idea exists at all — the problem it was invented to solve, what it actually does, and where it turns up outside a classroom — and then goes through it properly: the full explanation, the table you actually need, worked examples, and the mistakes that cost marks.
Reading
Answering a reading question
Know what the stem is asking, go back to the lines, cross out what the passage cannot support, and pick the answer that accounts for the most.
Open the toolkit
Writing
Sentences that do more
Sentence variety, correct joins, specific words and a steady voice — what the Sentence Structure and Vocabulary categories reward, with a flat paragraph revised.
Open the toolkit
How to use these
- Wondering why any of this is a thing? Read the opening section. It is the part a textbook usually skips.
- Stuck on a question type? Open the toolkit for that idea and find the worked example closest to it.
- Revising? Read the tables and try the checks, then go to practice questions to see whether it stuck.
- Getting ready for the achievement test? Every Grade 9 student writes it in June. The printable worksheets and a mixed quiz are the closest thing here to sitting it.