Agriculture is not a list of farm words. It is the business of deciding what to grow, how to look after the land and the animals, and why.The GOAT Notes™
CAPS prescribes one written paper of 200 marks with a suggested time of 3 hours. Section A is Question 1, 50 marks of short questions on every topic. Section B is 150 marks of longer questions; the annual teaching plan sets them as Questions 2 to 4 of 50 marks each, so four questions in all. 50 + 150 = 200. Every question is compulsory: there is no choice.
No Grade 10 paper from 2022 on could be obtained. So the question forms, topic order and marks of each topic are not read from a paper. The marks below share the 200 across the seven topics in proportion to CAPS hours. Every figure carries a tilde (~) because it is a plan, not a printed mark.
CAPS names four formats for Section A, each worth one or two marks:
Section B asks longer questions on the production enterprises, split into sub-questions: short answers (even one word), longer answers (a sentence to paragraphs) and drawing graphs, tables and diagrams. Which topic sits in which question is not published.
The annual teaching plan prints 40% knowledge, 40% comprehension and application, and 20% analysis, evaluation and synthesis. CAPS prints about 30, 30, 30 and 10. This guide follows the newer 40/40/20.
No Grade 10 memo was obtained, so this is how the senior-certificate memos read, as a guide only. You earn one tick for each mark. Multiple-choice and matching items carry two ticks. “(Any 2)” fixes how many points from a list count. The mark in brackets is the number of points to give. A school memo may differ.
This heading gives three kinds of mark: a definition, a reason and a benefit. CAPS lists all three, and the last two are easy to swap. A definition is worth two ticks: the resources that are used, and the goals that are reached.
“Running the farm” alone earns nothing. Name the resources and the goals, one tick each.
Three different benefits, one tick each. Two wordings of one idea earn one mark.
These two come up as define, give the correct term and change the underlined word, which CAPS lists among its command words. The answer is usually one word or one sentence, so the clue word decides the mark.
Checking and correcting is control. Planning is the one written in the plan before the work.
One tick a step. The order matters: you cannot compare before you have measured.
Matching is the quickest form here. Read the description, find the verb and match it to the principle: fitting together is co-ordination, and giving a reason to work well is motivation.
Two different ways, one tick each. Do not give “pay” twice in different words.
Communication has a sender, a message and a receiver, and it is complete only when the receiver has understood. A “describe communication” question is four ticks: the three parts and the understanding.
Sending a message nobody understands is not communication.
A scenario question is a short farm story. Do the same five things every time and the marks follow.
Ms Fourie farms sheep. (A) On Monday she told the shearers in Afrikaans and Sesotho that Tuesday’s start was moved to 05:00, and asked two of them to repeat it. (B) For the early start she gave every shearer a lunch voucher.
One tick for each principle and one for each clue. A principle without a clue earns one mark.
Mr Pillay told the planting team on Friday that planting starts on Monday. On Monday the team stood idle because the seed was still at the supplier.
Do not call this communication: the workers were told. The failure was fitting seed, tractor and team together.
Planning writes the target. Control reads the result against it. Same farm, different verb.
A Section A question says: “Give ONE reason why a farm needs management.” Which answer earns the mark?
A question asks for ONE benefit of good management. Which answer earns the mark?
Two statements are written in a memo. (i) “Farming is risky because weather and prices change.” (ii) “The farm makes less waste.” Which sorting is correct?
A farmer sets a yield target each season and checks every month whether the farm is on its way to it. Which reason for management does this show?
Mr Zwane says: “I need management because my capital is limited, and so my maize yield rose by a fifth.” Which statement about his sentence is correct?
Ms Dube reads the week’s jobs aloud in isiZulu and asks each worker to repeat them. Which principle does this show?
Before winter, Mr Bester works out how many bales of hay his ewes will need and writes the order list. Which principle does this show?
A vineyard owner pays the pickers every Friday, thanks them in front of the team and adds a bonus for the cleanest bunches. Which principle does this show?
A farmer weighs ten steers, finds them below the target in her notebook, and adds a protein lick to the feed. Which principle does this show?
The foreman phoned the dairy and the vet to confirm Thursday. On Thursday the vet, the milkers and the clean crates were all there at six. Which principle is best shown by everyone being ready at six?
Which question does control answer?
“Change the underlined word to make the statement TRUE: Planning is checking whether the results match the plan and correcting the gap.” Which word replaces the underlined word?
A farmer’s record shows that lambs gained 3 kg less than the plan said. In the steps of control, what is the 3 kg?
Which learner’s answer separates planning from control correctly?
A farmer has no written plan for the season, but she checks her tomato rows every Monday and fixes anything that looks wrong. What is the weakness of her management?
Which is a way of motivating farm workers?
Which sentence defines co-ordination?
A learner must give ONE example of co-ordination in animal production. Which answer earns the mark?
Which action is MOST likely to raise the motivation of workers on a poultry farm?
Which pairing of a problem with the principle that failed is correct?
When is communication on a farm complete?
Which is an example of communication in crop production?
The notices on a farm are only in English, but the workers speak isiXhosa and Afrikaans. What is the most likely result?
Which list names the three parts of communication?
A manager tells the milkers that a new feed starts on Friday, but the feed lorry arrives on Saturday. Which statement is correct?
Which is an example of planning in animal production?
Which is an example of control in crop production?
Which example shows motivation in crop production, and not in animal production?
“The foreman tells the dairy workers the feeding times and explains them in their own language.” A learner writes: “communication in crop production.” What is wrong?
Which example is correct in BOTH the principle and the type of production named?
Define management. Then give ONE benefit of good management about the harvest or income and ONE about workers or waste. (4)
Management is using the resources of the farm, such as land, labour and capital, in the best possible way to reach the goals of the farm. A benefit for the harvest or income is a higher yield or a bigger profit. A benefit for workers or waste is fewer mistakes, because workers know their jobs, or less waste.
Ms Fourie farms sheep. On Monday she told the shearers in Afrikaans and Sesotho that Tuesday’s start was moved to 05:00 and asked two of them to repeat it. For the early start she gave every shearer a lunch voucher. Name TWO management principles shown and quote a clue for each. (4)
Communication. Clue: “told the shearers in Afrikaans and Sesotho … and asked two of them to repeat it”. Motivation. Clue: “gave every shearer a lunch voucher” for the early start.
A learner writes: “Co-ordination means telling the workers what to do.” (a) Is the learner right? (b) Name the principle the learner has described. (c) State what co-ordination really is. (d) Give ONE example of co-ordination in animal production. (4)
No, the learner is not right. That describes communication, which passes information on. Co-ordination is fitting people, tasks and resources together in time so that jobs happen in the right order. For example, the shearers, the wool bales and the lorry are all ready on the same Monday.
Explain to a Grade 9 learner the difference between a reason for management and a benefit of management, with one example of each.
Explain to a friend how to tell planning, control and co-ordination apart in a farm story, using the verb in the story.
Explain to someone new on a farm why a message must be understood before it counts as communication, and what motivation adds.
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