JAMB

JAMB Use of English Syllabus

General Objectives

  • Communicate effectively in both written and spoken English; and
  • Use the English Language for learning at the tertiary level.

A. COMPREHENSION/SUMMARY

Comprehension Passages and Summary

Content:

  • •Description
  • •Narration
  • •Exposition
  • •Argumentation/persuasion
  • •Each of the two passages to be set (one will be a cloze test) should reflect various disciplines and be about 200 words long.
  • •Questions on the passages will test the following:
  • •(a) Comprehension of the whole or part of each passage.
  • •(b) Comprehension of words, phrases, clauses, sentences, figures of speech and idioms as used in the passages.
  • •(c) Coherence and logical reasoning (deductions, inferences, etc).
  • •(d) Approved Reading text (The Life Changer by Khadija Abubakar Jalli)
  • •(e) Synthesis of ideas from the passages.

B. LEXIS AND STRUCTURE

Lexical and Structural Elements

Content:

  • •Synonyms
  • •Antonyms
  • •Homonyms
  • •Clause and sentence patterns
  • •Word classes and their functions
  • •Mood, tense, aspect, number, agreement/concord, degree (positive, comparative and superlative) and question tags
  • •Punctuation and spelling
  • •Ordinary usage, figurative usage and idiomatic usage are to be tested.

C. ORAL FORMS

Phonological Elements

Content:

  • •Vowels (monophthongs and diphthongs)
  • •Consonants (including clusters)
  • •Rhymes (including homophones)
  • •Word stress (monosyllabic and polysyllabic)
  • •Intonation (words emphatic stress)

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