Current JAMB Syllabus For English [+Free PDF]

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The JAMB English syllabus consists of 3 sections:

• SECTION A: Comprehension/Summary
• SECTION B: Lexis and Structure
• SECTION C: Oral Forms

How many questions are there in English for JAMB?

You will be asked to answer 60 JAMB ENGLISH QUESTIONS from each of these sections:

SECTION A: Comprehension/Summary

• 1 comprehension passage – 5 questions.
• 1 cloze passage – 10 questions.
• 1 reading text – 10 questions.

SECTION B: Lexis and Structure

• Sentence interpretation – 5 questions.
• Antonyms – 5 questions.
• Synonyms – 5 questions.
• Sentence completion – 10 questions.

SECTION C: Oral Forms

• 10 questions

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Comprehension/Summary

• Description
• Narration
• Exposition
• Argumentation/persuasion

Each of the two passages to be set (one will be a cloze test) will be about various disciplines and about 200 words long.

Questions on the passages will test the following:

• Comprehension of the whole or part of each passage.
• Comprehension of words, phrases, clauses, sentences, figures of speech and idioms as used in the passages.
• Coherence and logical reasoning (deductions, inferences, etc).
• Literature text (Novel)
• Synthesis of ideas from the passages.

Lexis and Structure

• 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.

All the idioms shall be those that are formal and expressed in standard British English.

Oral Forms

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

Source: JAMB IBASS

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