Tips for Success:
>Teaching time is 4 hours per week. Ensure that you exploit it optimally to learn!
~Be ahead always. Research, read and calculate to know the content and the experiment before the lesson is taught on a daily basis.
~ The building blocks of science knowledge are definitions, laws, principles and concepts. Know and understand them first before you try to remember and apply them.
~ The subject Physical Sciences uses mathematical functions, concepts, operations and calculus in its definitions, laws and principles. Ensure that you know the relevant functions in trigonometry, logarithms, indices, exponents, the straight line, the hyperbola and the parabola. Ensure that you know the basic operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and factorisation in order to work with numbers and variables. Know calculus and proportion also.
~ In Physical Sciences you are expected to do science investigations and experiments. You need to know and understand what independent, dependent and control variables are before you apply them. You also need to know and understand what an investigative question and a hypothesis are before you can formulate them yourself.