In each of your 3 years of CAT, you will complete a Practical Assessment Task — or PAT. When you first receive your copy of the Learner Guide — a…

Previous step: Capturing full source details for your PAT The source information captured in the previous step must now be added as sources in Word on the References menu tab.…

Previous step: Learner Declaration of Authenticity The 2022 CAT PAT topic for Matric learners was announced during the first week of the 1st term and the Grade 10 topic in…

You must create a summary for each of your 10 (or more) sources. Summarise the web page, do not answer the question. Ensure that your summaries will enable you to…

Remember that the goal when collecting information is to collect valid, accurate information. In the same way that we can add validation to Access tables and Forms, Google Forms offers…

Previous post: Phase 2 Excel analysis Each year small changes are made to the PATs. Some of these changes create a small amount of confusion, often partly because the changes…

Previous step: Phase 1 Report Outline Your Phase 1 Report must contain a Learner Declaration of Authenticity — this can be completed when creating your Phase 1 report outline. There…

The 2021 CAT PAT topics have been announced and I am busy brainstorming ideas with my Learners. I think the choice of topics is relevant and the complexity of the…

« Previous step: Creating your sources Select the Bibliography placeholder heading and insert the bibliography (the bibliography heading will be replaced by the Bibliography field which includes the appropriate heading).…

Grade 10, 11 and 12 PAT’s must all include as much evidence of research (and planning) as possible. For this purpose, you must create a Research Material folder in your…

This post is specifically aimed at completing the HTML website section of the DBE PAT. As such, the HTML is in line with the curriculum and is not necessarily best-practice…