In developing the booklet the team of teachers have used the following as points of departure:

1. The lower-order questions asked for by the guidelines on examination setting in the Subject Assessment Guidelines should be clearly visible to students writing the examinations. You will find that:
• Both of the Mathematics papers (paper 1 and Paper 2) have as Question 1 a collection of short knowledge and basic application questions covering the full curriculum - all students should as a minimum be able to answer all of these questions.
• The Grade 11 and Grade 12 Mathematical Literacy Paper 1 have a clearly marked Section A which consists of the knowledge and basic application questions that all students should find accessible.
• The early questions in the Grade 10 Mathematical Literacy examination paper are all knowledge and basic application questions.
2. The use of language in developing context - especially in Mathematical Literacy - should be kept to a minimum so that students do not spend more time reading than they do answering the examination questions.