Ochuwa Weac Sylabus
Ochuwa Weac Sylabus
(ii) Basic rules of logarithms e.g. log10(pq) = log10p + log10q log10(p/q) = log10p –
log10q log10p n = nlog10p.
Financial partnerships, rates of work, costs, taxes, foreign exchange, density (e.g.
population), mass, distance, time, and speed.13PERCENTAGESSimple interest,
commission, discount, depreciation, profit and loss, compound interest, hire
purchase, and percentage error.14FINANCIAL ARITHMETIC(i) Depreciation/
Amortization
(ii) Annuities
(ii ) Factorization
(ii) The exterior angle of a triangle equals the sum of the two interior opposite
angles.
(ix) Parallelograms on the same base and between the same parallels are equal in
area.
30CIRCLES(i) Chords.
(ii) The angle which an arc of a circle subtends at the centre of the circle is twice
that which it subtends at any point on the remaining part of the circumference.
(iii) Any angle subtended at the circumference by a diameter is a right angle. (iv)
Angles in the same segment are equal.
(vii)If a tangent is drawn to a circle and from the point of contact a chord is drawn,
each angle which this chord makes with the tangent is equal to the angle in the
alternate segment.31CONSTRUCTION(i) Bisectors of angles and line segments
(ii) Line parallel or perpendicular to a given line.
(iii )Angles e.g. 90°, 60°, 45°, 30°, and an angle equal to a given angle.
(iii) Multiplication of probabilities for independent events. PART VIII: VECTORS &
TRANSFORMATION43VECTORS IN A PLANE(i) Vectors as a directed line segment.
(iii) Magnitude of a vector, equal vectors, addition and subtraction of vectors, zero
vector, parallel vectors, multiplication of a vector by scalar.44TRANSFORMATION IN
THE CARTESIAN PLANE(i) Reflection of points and shapes in the Cartesian Plane.
9 POSITIVE & NEGATIVE INTEGERS, The four basic operations on rational numbers.
RATIONAL NUMBERS
(ii) Annuities
(ii) Substitution
( ii ) Binomial denominators
29 TRIANGLES AND POLYGONS (i) The sum of the angles of a triangle is 2 right
angles.
34 SINE, COSINE AND TANGENT OF AN (i) Sine, Cosine and Tangent of acute angles.
ANGLE
vii. Orbitals
viii. Solutions
x. Standard solutions.
iii. Diffusion
iv. Gases
a) Characteristics and nature of gases
b) The gas laws
c) Laboratory preparation and properties of
some gases.
v. Liquids
vii. Solids
a) Characteristics and nature
b) Types and structures
c) Properties of solids.
v. Concept of pH
vi. Salts
a) Laboratory and industrial preparation of
salts
b) Uses
c) Hydrolysis of salt.
ii. Equilibrium:
a) General Principle
b) Le Chatelier’s principle
REDOX REACTIONS i. Oxidation and reduction process.
v. Electrolysis
a) Electrolytic cells
b) Principles of electrolysis
c) Factors influencing discharge of species;
d) Faraday’s laws
e) Practical application
f) Corrosion of metals
CHEMISTRY OF CARBON COMPOUNDS i. Classification
a) Homologous series
b) Isomerism.
vii. Alkanes
a) Sources, properties
b) Uses.
viii. Alkenes
a) Sources and properties
b) Uses
c) Laboratory detection.
ix. Alkynes
a) Sources, characteristic properties and uses
b) Chemical reactions.
x. Benzene
a) Structure and physical properties;
b) Chemical properties
xi. Alkanols
a) Sources, nomenclature and structure;
b) Classification
c) Physical properties
d) Chemical properties
e) Laboratory test
f) Uses.
iii. Biotechnology
BASIC BIOCHEMISTRY & SYNTHETIC i. Proteins:
POLYMERS
a) Sources and properties
b) Uses of protein
iii. Fats/oils
a) Sources and properties;
b) The general structure of fats/oils
c) Preparation of soap
d) Uses of fats/oils.
iv. Carbohydrates
a) Sources and nomenclature;
b) Properties
c) Carbohydrates as examples of polymers;
d) Uses
v. Synthetic polymers:
a) Properties;
b) Uses of polymers
WAEC CHEMISTRY PRACTICALS
2. Redox Titrations
Titrations of the following systems to solve
analytical problems:
Acidic MnO4– with Fe2+;
Acidic MnO4– with C2O42-;
I2 in KI versus S2O32-.
QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS No formal scheme of analysis is required.
WAEC
Biology
SYLLABU
S
SN TOPICS OBJECTIVES
PART A
1 CONCEPT OF LIVING i. Living and non-living things
(a) Nutrition
(i) Autotrophic (photosynthesis)
(ii) Heterotrophic (holozoic)
5 CELLULAR RESPIRATION Definition and processes of:
i. aerobic respiration
vii. Movement
b) Cyclosis
8 REPRODUCTION Types of reproduction.
ii. Liver
a) Eye
b) Ear
18 THE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM OF
MAMMALS i. The reproductive system of mammals
v. Pollination in Plants
a) Types of pollination
b) Features of cross-pollinated and self-
pollinated flowers
c) Agents of Pollination
vi. Process of development of zygote in
flowering plants
a) Fertilization
b) Types of fruits (classification).
c) Structure of fruits
i. Photosynthesis:
Evidence of photosynthesis
2. Animal Nutrition
a) Autotrophic: Photosynthesis,
v. Energy flow
a) Food/Energy relationship in the aquatic
and terrestrial environment.
b) Pyramid of energy and the Pyramid of
numbers.
x. Ecology of population
a) Ecological succession
v. Law of flotation
7 MOTION i. Types of motion: Random, rectilinear,
translational, Rotational, circular, orbital,
spin, Oscillatory.
7 MOTION
a) Contact force
v. Solid friction
(ii) Annuities
(ii ) Factorization
(ii) Substitution
20 QUADRATIC EQUATIONS (i) Solution of quadratic equations
( ii ) Binomial denominators
24 FUNCTIONS AND RELATIONS Types of Functions
PART III: MENSURATION
25 LENGTHS & PERIMETERS (i) Use of Pythagoras theorem, sine and
cosine rules to determine lengths and
distances.