Category: Academic and quantitative literacy (AQL)

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Already planning for 2022

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Well oiled schools schedule their school’s activities well in advance. Many have already approached LCaT and Purple Pepper Maths for workshop slots for 2022.

What are your plans 2022? Contact us for private preparation for the National Benchmark Tests or NBTs. Helping you to achieve your best possible result remains our passion. Like all experts we enjoy doing what we do, working with high school pupils, helping them to complete the National Benchmark Tests with confidence.

What are the NBTs?

Introduced in 2005, the National Benchmark Tests were commissioned by Universities South Africa with the main task of assessing the academic readiness of first year university students. The National Benchmark Tests have two components:

  • Academic and quantitative literacy (AQL)
  • Mathematics

Below is our timetable. Contact albert@lcat.design (082 77 33787) to arrange for a slot.

DateWorkshopsTime
5 FebAlma International School (Krugersdorp) 
Maths bridge course for Cambridge students
12 FebAlma International School (Krugersdorp)
Maths and AQL (online)
4 MarchLinden H/S (Johannesburg)
AQL/AKG		14:30-17:30
5 March Crawford College (Pretoria)
AQL		9:00-12:00
5 MarchAanlyn/Online
AQL/AKG
Maths/Wiskunde		14:30-17:30
12 MarchLinden H/S (Johannesburg)
Maths/Wiskunde 		Afternoon
16 March/
17 March		AHM (Pretoria)
AKG 		Afternoon
19 MarchBloemfontein
AKG/AQL
Wiskunde/Maths
21 MarchCradock
AQL/AKG
Maths/Wiskunde 		Morning
Afternoon
26 MarchCape Town
AQL/AKG
Maths/Wiskunde
28 MarchHermanus
AQL/AKG
Maths/Wiskunde
16 AprilPolokwane
AQL/AKG (online)
Maths/Wiskunde
22 April
Skole Ondersteuningsentrum (SOS)
AKG
Wiskunde
Pretoria
23 AprilSkole Ondersteuningsentrum (SOS
(online/aanlyn)
AQL/AKG
Maths/Wiskunde
Pretoria
7 MayNelspruit/Mbombela (online/aanlyn)
AQL/AKG
Maths/Wiskunde
14 MaySekunda
AQL/AKG
Maths/Wiskunde
21 MayAHM Pretoria
Wiskunde
28 MayPretoria (online/aanlyn)
AQL/AKG
Maths/Wiskunde
4 JunePretoria (online/aanlyn)
AQL/AKG
Maths/Wiskunde
2 JulyPretoria (online/aanlyn)
AQL/AKG
Maths/Wiskunde
6 AugPretoria (online/aanlyn)
AQL/AKG
Maths/Wiskunde
24 SepSkole Ondersteuningsentrum (SOS)
Graad 11 Inleiding tot die NNT
PLEASE NOTE: Dates and venues are subject to change on short notice.

Essential reading

Why prepare? Read NBT AQL preparation: yes or no?
What can I expect from the LCaT Academic Literacy Workshop?
Who is Albert Weideman?

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It’s not about the NBT’s! It’s about being prepared for university

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Our Grade 12’s deserve to reach university prepared

“It seems to me,” the mother of a Grade 12 recently wrote to me, “that tertiary institutions no longer expect children to take the NBT’s (for MANY of the programmes)”.

“Is it true?” she asks.

Continue reading “It’s not about the NBT’s! It’s about being prepared for university” →
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2021 Academic literacy workshops for pupils from all over

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What do Grade 12 learners from Sentraal and Oranje Meisies in Bloemfontein, from Curro in Nelspruit, from Alma Mater in Krugersdorp, from Waterkloof High and Afrikaans Hoër Meisies in Pretoria, and from Linden High in Johannesburg have in common with Crawford College and Hoërskool Zwartkop in Pretoria, learners from Middelburg, Hermanus and Vrede?

Continue reading “2021 Academic literacy workshops for pupils from all over” →

The book really helped and showed how they [the NBTs] would ask questions, so I knew what to expect, especially after doing all five of the tests. I think that everyone should do some work to prepare as it is a test unlike any normal test at school.

Alexander McDonald
Johannesburg Grade 12 learner

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Your book helped a lot – it gave me a lot of confidence. The AQL paper went well yesterday …  I’ll be sure to recommend it to other students.

Malu Beekman
Cape Town

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Slim Lindeniete nou nog slimmer

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‘n Klompie vriendelike matrieks het vandag in die saal van die Hoërskool Linden vergader om voor te berei vir die akademiese en kwantitatiewe geletterdheidskomponent van die Nasionale Normtoetse. Hierdie toetse, beter bekend as die NBT’s of National Benchmark Tests, word toenemend deel van universiteitstoelatingsveresistes. En Lindeniete vat nie kanse nie — as so ‘n toets geskryf moet word, wil hulle weet wat om te verwag. Dit was ‘n kwessie van: “Wys ons die hekkie en ons spring oor hom”. Continue reading “Slim Lindeniete nou nog slimmer” →

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NBT AQL preparation: yes or no?

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Can you prepare?

Can or should you prepare for the Academic and Quantitative Literacy (AQL) component of the National Benchmark Tests? Of course you can. Why would you not prepare? Why would you not seek to become familiar with the unusual format of such tests? Why would you not grasp the opportunity to gain an understanding of what academic literacy means? If you do an example test and check the correct answers, you will certainly develop your ability to use academic language. And that ability is exactly what the AQL component tests! Continue reading “NBT AQL preparation: yes or no?” →