That CD contains (among other things) JAMB’s 2017 syllabus.
But there is a problem: It’s not working on computer.
Moreover, not everybody has a laptop (or desktop). That’s what most people (including our group members) are complaining about.
So I’ve broken into the CD and extracted the JAMB 2017syllabus for you.
In all, they are 25 subjects.
But I wanted our group members to get access to the ones that concern them as quickly as possible.
So, I decided to get them online one-by-one.
To know which ones to work on first, I asked them. Based on their reply, I’m working on their subjects of choice and getting them online one-by-one.
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My OBSERVATION: 2017 JAMB syllabus is practically the same with that of last year. Nothing changed.
In fact, in Use of English, for example, they still wrote, “The Last Days at Forcados High School” as the recommended text.
Below is JAMB syllabus for English.
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USE OF ENGLISH
1. GENERAL OBJECTIVES
The aim of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation
Examination (UTME) syllabus in Use of English is to guide the candidates in
their preparation for the Board’s exam is designed to evaluate the candidates’
ability to:
(i) Communicate
effectively in both written and spoken English; and
(ii) Use the English Language for learning at the
tertiary level.
2. The syllabus
consists of three sections:
SECTION A: Comprehension/Summary
SECTION B: Lexis and Structure, and
SECTION C: Oral Forms
3. DETAILED
SYLLABUS/CONTENTS
TOPICS/CONTENTS/NOTES
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OBJECTIVES
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A.
Comprehension/Summary
(a) description
(b) narration
(c) exposition
(d) argumentation/persuasion
(i) Each of the three passages to be set (one will be
a cloze test)
should reflect various disciplines
and be about 200 words long.
(ii) Questions on the passages will test the following:
(a)
(a)Comprehension of the whole
or Part of each passage.
(b)
Comprehension of words,
phrases, clauses, sentences, figures of
(c)
Speech and idioms as used in
the passages.
(d)
Coherence and logical
reasoning (deductions, inferences, etc).
(e)
The Last Days at Forcados
High School, A. H. Mohammed.
(f)
(e) Synthesis of
ideas from the passages.
NOTE:
By
synthesis of ideas
is meant the
art of combining distinct
or separate pieces
of information to form a complete whole.
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Candidates should be able to:
(i) Identify main points/topic sentences
in passages;
(ii) Determine implied meaning;
(iii) Identify the grammatical
functions of words, phrases, clauses
and figurative/idiomatic expressions;
(iv) Deduce or infer intentions including the mood, attitude
to the subject matter and opinion.
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B. Lexis and
Structure
(a) synonyms
(b) antonyms
(c) homonyms
(d) clause and sentence patterns
(e) word classes and their functions
(f)
mood, tense, aspect, number, agreement/concord, degree (positive, comparative and
superlative) and question tags
(g) punctuation and spelling
(h) Usage, figurative usage
and Idiomatic usage is to be tested.
NOTE:
Idioms to be tested shall be those
that are formal and expressed in standard British English.
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Candidates should be able to:
(i)
identify words
and expressions in
their ordinary, figurative and
idiomatic contexts;
(ii) determine similar and opposite meaning of words;
(iii) differentiate
between correct and
incorrect punctuation and spelling;
(iv) identify various grammatical patterns in use;
(v) Interpret information conveyed in sentences.
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C. Oral Forms
(a) Vowels (monophthongs and diphthongs
(b) Consonants (including clusters)
(c) Rhymes (including homophones)
(d) Word stress (monosyllabic and polysyllabic)
(e) Intonation (words emphatic stress)
NOTE:
Emphatic stress involves the
placement of normal stress on words in an utterance for the purpose of emphasis.
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Candidates should be able to:
(i) make distinctions between vowel types;
(ii) differentiate between consonant types;
(iii) Identify correct accentuation in individual words and connected
speech.
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D. THE STRUCTURE OF THE EXAMINATION
SECTION
A: Comprehension/Summary
(a) 2
comprehension passages –10 questions, 3 marks each =
30 marks
(b) I
cloze passage –10 questions, 2 marks each = 20 marks
(c) 1
reading text –15 questions, 1 mark each = 15 marks
=
65 marks
SECTION
B: Lexis Structure
(a) Sentence
interpretation –10 questions, 2 marks each = 20 marks
(b) Antonyms
–10 questions, 2 marks each =
20 marks
(c) Synonyms
–10 questions, 1 mark each =
10 marks
(d) Sentence
completion –20 questions, 1 mark each = 20 marks
=
70 marks
SECTION
C: Oral Forms
15 questions, 1 mark each =
15 marks
Total: 100 questions 65 + 70 + 15 =
150 marks
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