AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES

Dear Grade 12 Agricultural Sciences learner Assessment

À Formal assessment tasks: 25% 100 marks
Agricultural Sciences seeks to develop your scientific knowledge À Final external examination 75% 300 marks
and approach to relevant agricultural concepts. In Grade During the year you will complete different formal assessment
12 the main content topics are Animal Studies, Agricultural tasks. All assessment tasks are extremely important and you
Management and Basic Agricultural Genetics. need to complete them to the best of your ability to ensure a
Subject requirements good year mark.
À Make sure that you have a textbook, exercise books, The following formal assessment tasks are compulsory:
calculator, ruler, eraser, pen and pencil. À One practical investigation or research task
À Two control tests
Content Checklist
À Trial examination. This examination consists of two papers
Below is a checklist you should use to ensure that you have
which have exactly the same content distribution and
covered the Grade 12 content in full.
format as the final examination papers.
1. Animal Studies:
The external examination papers are structured as follows:
Animal Nutrition
À The alimentary canals of farm animals: General structures Paper 1: Animal Sciences 150 marks
À Digestion and absorption of feeds in farm animals À Animal Nutrition 50 marks
À Components of a feed À Animal Production, Protection and Control 50 marks
À Digestibility of feeds À Animal Reproduction 50 marks
À Biological value of feeds Paper 2: Agricultural Management
À Energy value of feeds and Genetics 150 marks
À Supplements À Agricultural Marketing and Management 50 marks
À Types of feeds
À Production Factors and Management 50 marks
À Planning a feeding programme
À Basic Agricultural Genetics 50 marks
Animal Production, Protection and Control Tips for success
À Increasing production À Ask your teacher for the content framework for Grade
À Shelter 12. This will give you the detailed content. Paste it in your
À Handling of farm animals exercise book. Tick off every topic as it is taught in class and
À Behaviour of farm animals write the relevant textbook page numbers next to the topic.
À Diseases (viral, bacterial, protozoan and fungal)
À Make sure that you prepare the relevant and correct content
À Internal and external parasites
topics for each of the Agricultural Sciences papers on the
À Plant and heavy metal poisoning
day of the examination.
À The role of the state in animal protection
À Prepare yourself to draw and interpret graphs, do
Animal Reproduction calculations (e.g. the coefficient of digestibility or nutritive
À Reproductive organs (male and female) ratio), read case studies or scenarios very carefully, interpret
À Synchronisation of oestrus diagrams (also the labeling) and apply your knowledge.
À Artificial mating and breeding À Work through as many past Agricultural Sciences papers as
À Pregnancy and birth possible to prepare you for the examinations.
À Milk production

2. Agricultural Management:
Agricultural Management
and Marketing
À Agricultural marketing
À Market equilibrium
À Marketing systems
À Entrepreneurship and business
planning

Production Factors
À Land and labour
À Capital and management

3. Basic Agricultural
Genetics:
À Monohybrid and dihybrid
crossings
À Heredity
À Variation and mutations
À Selection
À Genetic modification and
engineering

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