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There are specific guidelines for the setting of tasks and examinations stipulated in the CAPS specifically for grade 12 that can be applied to grade 10 and 11 as well. These guidelines are there to uphold the standards of setting and marking learners' assessment tasks, tests and exams in preparation for the National Senior Certificate (NSC) examinations in grade 12.

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Assessment plans and programs of assessment aid teachers in spacing out the suited tasks that need to be completed both yearly and quarterly. They help standardise when everyone needs to be completed with certain learning content and tasks. They also standardise the weighting and mark allocations of these tasks.

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Moderation is the revision/evaluation of examination papers/tests. It is done to ensure that teachers are making consistent judgments about standards

1. Pre-moderation: done before an examination takes place (test's questions and memorandum)

2. Post-moderation: done after an examination takes place (learners' answers)

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When setting assessment tasks, the questions must be on varying levels of difficulty.

1. Bloom's: Remember, understand, apply, analyse, evaluate, create

2. Barrett's: Literal Comprehension, Reorganisation, Inferential Comprehension, Evaluation, Appreciation

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1. Checklists

2. Rubrics

3. Memorandums

4. Peer assessment

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1. Formative: continuous; feedback is given to learners; aims to gauge what learners know and contribute to their learning

2. Summative: provides numeric value of performance; determines whether a learner can be promoted to the following term/grade/module