Life Orientation Grade 10 Practice Exam

The main idea here is understanding what risks come with unsafe sexual practices for teenagers and what factors help protect them. Unsafe sexual activity can lead to unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections, both of which carry health, social, and educational consequences for teens. To guard against these risks, two protective factors are especially important: access to contraception so teens can prevent pregnancy and reduce STI risk, and open communication with partners and trusted adults or health professionals, which supports informed, safer decisions and timely access to testing or care. The combination of pregnancy and STIs as consequences with contraception access and open communication as protective factors reflects real risks and practical protections teens can use. The other options mix unrelated outcomes (like improved grades or stable relationships) and non-protective ideas (peer pressure, abstinence-only) that don’t describe effective ways to reduce risk.