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    New WAEC Mathematics Syllabus (For GCE too)

    Would you like to get WAEC | GCE Maths syllabus to know what to study for Maths in SSCE or GCE exam?

    In this library,

    You will see the latest WAEC Mathematics syllabus this year with a free PDF copy to know the topics where all your Maths questions in WAEC or GCE will be asked from.

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    Take note.

    WAEC conducts two exams: SSCE (internal) for school candidates & SSCE external (formerly, GCE) for private candidates.

    WAEC SSCE (internal) and WAEC GCE Maths syllabus are the same.

    Because all the topics where your Maths questions will be asked from in SSCE (internal) are also found in the WAEC GCE Maths syllabus.

    How many questions are asked in WAEC Maths exam?

    Whether it is WAEC internal or GCE Maths, you’ll answer a total of 60 questions in two different but compulsory Maths papers.

    • PAPER 1: will have 50 objective questions to be answered in 1½ hours. 
    • PAPER 2: will have 13 theory questions in two sections (A – B) for you to answer ONLY 10 in 2½ hours.
      • SECTION A – will have 5 compulsory questions.
      • SECTION B – will have 8 questions for you to answer any 5 aside the one(s) that are not for candidates in your country.

    Expect about 63 questions to answer 60 in your WAEC Maths exam from different topics under these main areas of concentration:

    See available GCE / WAEC Mathematics syllabus

    The PDF version of this syllabus is included at the bottom of this post for your FREE and unlimited download.

    1. Number and Numeration

    • NUMBER BASES.
    • MODULAR ARITHMETICS.
    • FRACTION, DECIMAL AND APPROXIMATION.
    • INDICES.
    • LOGARITHM.
    • SEQUENCE AND SERIES.
    • SETS.
    • LOGICAL REASONING.
    • RATIONAL NUMBERS: POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE INTEGERS.
    • SURDS.
    • MATRICES AND DETERMINANTS.
    • RATIO, PROPORTION AND RATES.
    • VARIATION.
    • FINANCIAL ARITHMETIC.
    • PERCENTAGES.

    2. Algebraic Processes

    • ALGEBRAIC EXPRESSION.
    • SIMPLE OPERATIONS ON ALGEBRAIC EXPRESSION.
    • SOLUTION OF LINEAR EQUATIONS.
    • CHANGE OF SUBJECT OF A FORMULA.
    • QUADRATIC EQUATIONS.
    • GRAPHS OF LINEAR AND QUADRATIC FUNCTIONS.
    • LINEAR INEQUALITIES.
    • ALGEBRAIC FRACTIONS.
    • FUNCTIONS AND RELATIONS.

    3. Mensuration

    • LENGTHS AND PERIMETERS.
    • AREAS.
    • VOLUMES.

    4. Plane geometry

    • ANGLES AT A POINT.
    • ANGLES AND INTERCEPTS ON PARALLEL LINES.
    • TRIANGLES AND OTHER POLYGONS.
    • CIRCLES.
    • CONSTRUCTION.
    • LOCI.

    5. Coordinate Geometry of Straight Lines

    • CONCEPT OF X-Y PLANE.
    • COORDINATES OF POINTS ON THE X-Y PLANE.

    6. Trigonometry

    • SINE, COSINE AND TANGENT OF AN ANGLE.
    • ANGLES OF ELEVATION AND DEPRESSION.
    • BEARINGS.

    7. Introductory Calculus

    • DIFFERENTIATION OF ALGEBRAIC FUNCTIONS.
    • INTEGRATION OF SIMPLE ALGEBRAIC FUNCTIONS.

    8. Statistics and Probability

    • STATISTICS.
    • PROBABILITY.

    9. Vectors and Transformations

    • VECTORS IN A PLANE.
    • TRANSFORMATION IN THE CARTESIAN COORDINATE PLANE.

    Source: WAEC website.

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