Past matric exam papers: English Second Additional Language (SAL)

*Updated April 2019

English is one of the key exam papers that matric learners write. Here's a collection of past English Second Additional Language (SAL) papers plus memos to help you prepare for the matric finals. The Department hasn't released many of these papers, so we apologise that it's so sparse. Hopefully we can add more soon.

We'd also like to tell you about our new free Grade 12 study guides. We have free English First Additional Language study guides, as well as other languages, maths, science and many other subjects.

Before we get to the past papers, here are some more links we hope you'll find useful:

• Bookmark this page: Matrics 2019! All you need to know
• The Parent24 index page with all past papers
• For the NSC 2019 timetable, click here

All the best of luck!

The Parent24 team.

2014 November:

2014 English Paper 1 November

2014 English Paper 1 Memorandum November

2014 English Paper 2 November

2014 English Paper 2 Memorandum November

2014 English Paper 3 November* 

2014 English Paper 3 Memorandum November*   

2014 Feb/March:

2014 English Paper 1 Feb/March  

2014 English Paper 1 Memorandum Feb/March  

2014 English Paper 2 Feb/March  

2014 English Paper 2 Memorandum Feb/March  

2014 English Paper 3 Feb/March*   

2014 English Paper 3 Memorandum Feb/March*   

2012 November: