The team at matric.co.za knows that just starting your matric year at school is nerve wracking, so having to write exams and prepare for them are even worse! Therefore, you need all the help you can get. There are a couple of things you can do to get help with studying for your matric exam:

- Hire a private tutor. Many students nowadays go for extra lessons with tutors who specialise in a specific subject, such as economics or mathematics. Usually, these tutors are university students who study in those fields or former educators who used to teach in those fields. Find a tutor at:

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- Buy study guides from reputable booksellers such as Exclusive Books, Wordsworth, and Van Schaik Bookstores. Study guides are available for most of the more popular and compulsory subjects, such as first and second languages, Mathematics and mathematic literacy, accounting, biology, geography, and physical and life science. The following study guides are available from most good booksellers:

1. The Answer Series
2. X-Kits
3. Study and Master / Ken en Verstaan
4. The Guidelines Series
5. The Pythagoras Series (Mathematics)

- Start a study group with friends. Make sure that you include people in your study group who understand the work well and who can serve as peer teachers. This way you won’t be shy to ask questions when you don’t understand something.