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.
Every unit
Whose voice is this?
Every PAT question hangs off a source. Five questions to ask before the options, fact versus opinion, what a cartoon's exaggeration claims, and why the right answer is the one the source supports.
Open the toolkit
Economics and politics
How much should government do?
One question sits under market and mixed economies, social programs, party platforms and rights. A line rather than two boxes, the tools government can use, and how to place any speaker on it.
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.