The paper sat on Ms. Dlamini’s desk, a pristine stack of thirty-four stapled booklets. The front page read, in bold Times New Roman:
She whispered, “Bottom chord: tension. Top chord: compression. Diagonals: depends on load direction. But you got the triangle part right, right?” technology grade 9 term 2 question paper
With thirty minutes left, Thabo went back to the questions he’d skipped. He reread the bridge structural member one. Transfer loads. Yes. He filled it in. He checked his gear train diagram and added a label for the idler gear. He counted his marks: if he got half of Section A, half of B, most of C, a few in D, and full marks in E, he might just scrape 55%. A pass. The paper sat on Ms
“You may begin,” Ms. Dlamini said, her voice calm but firm. Top chord: compression
was a mixture of short answers and diagrams. Question 2 showed a cross-section of a simple hydraulic press with two cylinders—a small master cylinder and a larger slave cylinder. The diagram was unlabeled, and the question read: “Identify parts A, B, and C and explain how force is multiplied in this system.”