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syllabus.
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2017syllabus for you.
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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 Economics.
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ECONOMICS
GENERAL OBJECTIVES
The
aim of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) syllabus in
Economics is to prepare the candidates for the Board’s examination. It is
designed to test their achievement of the course objectives, which are to:
1.
Demonstrate
sufficient knowledge and understanding of the basic concepts, tools and their
general applications to economic analysis;
2.
Identify
and explain the basic structures, operations and roles of the various economic
units and institutions (national and international);
3.
Describe
major economic activities – production, distribution and consumption;
4.
Identify
and appraise the basic and current economic problems of society;
5.
Develop
the competence to proffer solutions to economic problems identified.
DETAILED SYLLABUS
TOPICS/CONTENTS/NOTES
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OBJECTIVES
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Candidates should be able to:
(i)
distinguish
between the various forms of reasoning;
(ii)
apply these
forms of reasoning to real life situations;
(iii)
use the tools
to interpret economic data;
(iv)
analyse
economic data using the tools;
(v)
Assess the
merits and demerits of the tools.
Candidates should be able to:
(i)
identify the
factors determining demand;
(ii)
interpret demand
curves from demand schedules;
(iii)
differentiate
between change in quantity demanded and change in demand;
(iv)
compare the
various types of demand and their interrelationships;
(v)
relate the
determinants to the nature of elasticity;
(vi)
compute
elasticities;
(vii)
interpret
elasticity coefficients in relation to real life situations.
Candidates should be able to:
(i)
explain the
various utility concepts;
(ii)
apply the law
of demand using the marginal utility analysis;
(iii)
use
indifference curve and marginal analyses to determine consumer equilibrium;
(iv)
relate the
income and substitution effects;
(v)
apply consumer
surplus to real life situations.
Candidates should be able to:
(i)
identify the
factors determining supply;
(ii)
interpret
supply curves from supply schedules;
(iii)
differentiate
between change in quantity supplied and change in supply;
(iv)
compare the
various types of supply and their interrelationships;
(v)
relate the
determinants to the nature of elasticity;
(vi)
compute elasticity
coefficients;
(vii)
Interpret the
coefficients in relation to real live situations.
Candidates should be able to:
(i)
explain the
concepts of market and price;
(ii)
examine the
functions of the price system;
(iii)
evaluate the
effects of government interference with the price system;
(iv)
differentiate
between minimum and maximum price legislation;
(v)
Interpret the
effects of changes in supply and demand on equilibrium price and quantity.
Candidates should be able to:
(i)
relate TP, AP
and MP with the law of variable proportion;
(ii)
compare
internal and external economies of scale in production and their effects;
(iii)
identify the
types of production functions
(iv)
compare the
different types of returns to the scale and their implications;
(v)
Determine the
firm’s equilibrium position using the isoquant-isocost and marginal analyses.
(vi)
Identify the
factors affecting productivity.
Candidates should be able to:
(i)
explain the
various cost concepts
(ii)
differentiate
between accountants’ and economists’ notions of costs
(iii)
interpret the
short-run and long-run costs curves
(iv)
Establish the
relationship between marginal cost and supply curve.
(v)
Explain the
various revenue concepts.
Candidates should be able to:
(i)
analyse the
assumptions and characteristics of a perfectly competitive market;
(ii)
differentiate
between short-run and long-run equilibrium of a perfectly competitive firm;
(iii)
analyse the
assumptions and characteristics of imperfect markets;
(iv)
differentiate
between the short-run and long-run equilibria of imperfectly competitive
firms;
(v)
Establish the
conditions for the break- even/shut down of firms.
Candidates should be able to:
(i)
identify the
major concepts in national income;
(ii)
compare the
different ways of measuring national income;
(iii)
examine their
problems;
(iv)
assess the uses
and limitations of national income estimates;
(v)
interpret the
circular flow of income using the two and three-sector models;
(vi)
calculate the
various multipliers;
(vii)
evaluate their
effects on equilibrium national income;
(viii)Explain the concepts of consumption, investment and savings.
Candidates should be able to:
(i)
explain between
the types, characteristics and functions of money;
(ii)
identify the
factors affecting the demand for and the supply of money;
(iii)
examine the
relationship between the value of money and the price level;
(iv)
identify the
components in the quantity theory of money;
(v)
examine the
causes and effects of inflation;
(vi)
calculate the
consumer price index;
(vii)
interpret the
consumer price index;
(viii)Examine ways of controlling inflation.
(ix)
Examine the
causes, measurement, effects and control of deflation.
Candidates should be able to:
(i)
Identify the
types and functions of financial institutions;
(ii)
Explain the
roles of financial institutions in economic development;
(iii)
Distinguish
between the money and capital markets;
(iv)
Identify the
various financial sector regulators and their functions;
(v)
Explain the
money creation process and its challenges;
(vi)
Examine the
various monetary policy instruments and their effects;
(vii)
Appraise the
challenges facing the financial institutions in Nigeria.
Candidates should be able to:
(i)
identify the
objectives of public finance;
(ii)
explain fiscal
policy and its instruments;
(iii)
compare the
various sources of government revenue
(iv)
analyse the
principles of taxation;
(v)
analyse the
incidence of taxation and its effects;
(vi)
examine the
effects of public expenditure on the economy;
(vii)
examine the
types and effects of budgets;
(viii)
highlight the
criteria for revenue allocation in Nigeria and their impact.
Candidates should be able to:
(i)
distinguish
between economic growth and development;
(ii)
highlight the
indicators of growth and development;
(iii)
identify the
factors affecting growth and development;
(iv)
examine the
problems of development in Nigeria;
(v)
examine the
role of planning in development;
Candidates should be able to:
(i)
identify the
types and features of agriculture;
(ii)
examine the
characteristics and problems of agriculture;
(iii)
assess the role
of agriculture in economic development;
(iv)
appraise agricultural
policies in Nigeria;
(v)
evaluate the
causes and effects of instability in agricultural incomes.
Candidates should be able to:
(i)
differentiate
between location and localization of industry;
(ii)
identify the
factors influencing the location and localization of industry;
(iii)examine the problems of industrialization;
(iv)appraise some industrialization strategies;
(v) examine the role of industry in economic
development.
Candidates should be able to:
(i)
trace the
development of the major natural resources in Nigeria;
(ii)
assess the
contribution of the oil and the non-oil sectors to the Nigerian economy;
(iii)
establish the
linkages between the natural resources and other sectors;
(iv)
analyse the
environmental effects of exploitation activities in Nigeria;
(v)
distinguish
between the upstream and downstream activities in the oil sector ;
(vi)
examine the
roles of NNPC and OPEC in the oil sector;
(vii) suggest ways of controlling the effects of natural
resources exploitation.
Candidates should be able to:
(i)
compare the
types and basic features of private business organization;
(ii)
assess the
financing and management problems of business organizations;
(iii)
identify the
features of public enterprises;
(iv)
identify the
factors determining the size of firms;
(v)
differentiate
between privatization and commercialization;
(vi)
compare the
advantages and disadvantages of privatization and commercialization;
Candidates should be able to:
(i)
analyse some
population theories:
(ii)
examine the
relevance of the theories to Nigeria;
(iii)
examine the
uses and limitations of census data;
(iv)
identify
determinants of the size, composition and growth of population;
(v)
analyse the
structure and distribution of population;
(vi)
appraise
government population policy in Nigeria.
Candidates should be able to:
(i)
examine the
basis for international trade.
(ii)
differentiate
between absolute and comparative advantages;
(iii)
distinguish
between balance of trade and balance of payments and their corrective
measures;
(iv)
highlight the
problems of balance of payments and their corrective measures;
(v)
examine the
composition and direction of Nigeria’s foreign trade;
(vi)
identify the
types of exchange rates;
(vii)
examine how
exchange rates are determined.
Candidates should be able to:
(i)
identify the
various economic organizations and their functions;
(ii)
evaluate their
relevance to the Nigerian economy
Candidates should be able to:
(i)
identify the
types; features and rewards of factors;
(ii)
analyse the
determination of wages, interest and profits;
(iii)
interpret the
marginal productivity of liquidity preference theories
(iv)
examine factors
mobility and efficiency;
(v)
examine the
types and causes of unemployment in Nigeria;
(vi)
suggest
solutions to unemployment in Nigeria.
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J. (1997) Oxford Dictionary of Economics. Oxford: Oxford University Press
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A.B. et al (1997) Round-up Economics, Lagos: Longman
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A. (1979) Modern Microeconomics, London: Macmillan
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