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Your exams. Your future. One app.

Study from real past papers, practise with tests that tell you why you lost marks, and plan your way into varsity or college, with your APS, the courses you meet, NSFAS and bursaries. Free, on your phone.

TRY's Home screen
A Practice question
The whole journey

From Grade 8 to your first day at varsity or college.

TRY isn’t just practice. It walks with you all the way, whether you’re top of the class, struggling with a subject, or applying again next year.

  1. 01

    Study

    Past papers with memos, guides, textbooks, formula sheets, offline.

  2. 02

    Practise

    Tests and whole exam papers that mark you and name your mistakes.

  3. 03

    Know your marks

    My marks per term, and your APS worked out for you.

  4. 04

    Choose

    Courses you already meet, and the mark you need for the rest.

  5. 05

    Apply

    All 26 public universities and 47 TVET colleges: courses, how to apply, closing dates.

  6. 06

    Fund it

    NSFAS and bursaries that fit you, step by step, with closing dates.

How it works

Three steps. Then it’s yours.

  1. 1

    Sign up

    Pick your grade and your subjects. It takes a minute and it’s free.

  2. 2

    Study and practise

    Open a past paper, or make a test on any chapter. TRY marks it and shows your mistakes.

  3. 3

    Plan what’s next

    Add your marks. See your APS, the courses you qualify for, and the bursaries that fit.

Study it

Real papers. Real memos.
On your phone.

Every past paper with its memo, sorted by exam and year. Study guides, textbooks, exam guidelines and the formula and data sheets you get in the exam room. Save them once, read them with no signal.

  • Past papers and memos for your subjects
  • Study guides, textbooks and exam guidelines
  • Formula and data sheets, like in the exam
  • A reader built in: no other app needed
Study material by type
A paper open in TRY's reader
Practise it

Know exactly why
you lost the mark.

Choose a chapter and how hard. TRY makes a test that’s new every time, marks it the moment you hand in, and names your mistake, so you fix the habit, not just the answer.

  • Tests on every chapter of your subjects
  • Easy, exam level or hard, 3 to 40 questions
  • The memo for every question, step by step
  • One tap: a new test on your weak spots
My subjects and their chapters in Practice
Results with each mistake named
TRY questions

Write a full exam paper
before the real one.

Choose Paper 1 or Paper 2, full or half. TRY makes a brand-new paper for your grade, set like your real exam, with a memo that opens once you’ve finished writing.

  • A new paper every time
  • Full (3 hours) or half
  • The memo with every mark shown
  • Saved as a PDF in My TRY papers
TRY questions: subject, paper and length
Plan what’s next

Varsity, college,
and the money to get there.

TRY works out your APS from your marks and shows the courses you already meet, and the mark you need for the ones you want, at every public university and TVET college. Then it helps you pay for it: NSFAS and bursaries, step by step, before they close.

  • Your APS from My marks
  • Courses you meet, side by side
  • 26 public universities and 47 TVET colleges: courses, how to apply, prospectus
  • NSFAS and bursaries that fit you, with closing dates
  • A reminder before applications close
  • Struggling or applying next year? See every route your marks can take
Future Finder
A university page
Play and tools

Warm up. Keep track.
Calculate.

Quick brain games and a daily challenge to wake your brain up, and the tools you need every day: My marks, the exam planner, a study timer and a full scientific calculator.

  • Brain games and the daily challenge
  • Leaderboards with your friends (if you want)
  • Exam planner and study timer
  • Scientific calculator
The toolkit
The scientific calculator
Aton

Stuck? Ask Aton.

Aton is TRY’s AI helper. Ask in your own words: it explains a topic, finds a past paper and its memo, makes you a test or a whole TRY paper, and finds bursaries and closing dates.

  • “Give me a practice test on trig”
  • “Find 2024 maths paper 1 with the memo”
  • “When does NSFAS close?”
  • Aton is an AI: it guides you; you do the thinking
Aton's Study mode
Aton making a practice test
Try. Learn. Grow.

Small steps today.
Big results tomorrow.

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