Grade 7 English Home Language tests and exam questions

Grade 7 English Home Language exam practice tests

Free Grade 7 English tests for South African learners, written from real CAPS papers. Every test runs in the browser, needs no sign-up and shows an explanation with each answer, so a child can practise alone and still learn from a wrong choice. There are 21 topics and 536 questions, and the numbers change each time, which makes these useful for revision as well as a first run. Grade 7 English exam papers and memoranda in PDF are on the way.

In the Senior Phase reading becomes interpretation. The passages rarely state their point outright — the meaning sits in a contrast, a short sentence standing alone, or something deliberately left unsaid.

On the language side the three hard ones are reported speech, the difference between a phrase and a clause, and the conditionals: if it rains, we will stay in against if I were rich, I would travel.