(1) Whether provincial education departments have been instructed to complete the curricula for grades participating in the Annual National Assessments (ANAs) by August of each year, in preparation for the ANAs; if so, how is the teaching of a curriculum designed to be taught over a school year achieved within less than eight months without compromising effective learning; (2) (a) why the cycle of the ANAs is timed to take place during a school year, rather than at the start or at the end of a year and (b) how she plans to minimise the disruption to schooling precipitated by the writing of the ANAs; (3) whether she has considered replacing the ANAs with the independently administered systemic testing utilised in the Western Cape; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details; (4) whether all (a) teachers and (b) subject advisors active in the grades participating in the ANAs will be required to write the examinations administered to learners during 2014; if not, why not, in each case; if so, what are the relevant details in each case?