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…

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…

There are a few super-handy timesaving tricks in Microsoft Excel for when your data is not quite the way you need it to be. The Text to Columns and the…

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…

Previous post: Research Questions You are now required to record the full bibliographical details for 3 of the sources you have identified. Two of these sources must be websites and…

This function is really straightforward: it simply converts an amount from one unit of measurement to another. In the example below the amount of ice-cream consumed annually is expressed in…

Previous step: Phase 2 Excel Charts The Grade 11 & Grade 12 PAT requires you to create a database using Microsoft Access. You have already captured your questionnaire data in Excel. Rather than re-type…

Previous step: Phase 2 Questionnaire Once you have administered your PAT questionnaire (25 responses for Grade 12), you must capture and analyze the data. You can create the Microsoft Excel…

Previous step: Task Definition You must become an expert on your PAT topic! You must have all the knowledge that will be required to answer/solve the question posed in your…