JAMB syllabus

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• Accounts (Principles of Accounts)19 topics · 312 questions

  1. 1.Nature and purpose of accounting15 · Practise
  2. 2.Accounting concepts and conventions18 · Practise
  3. 3.Source documents and books of original entry16 · Practise
  4. 4.Double entry and the ledger19 · Practise
  5. 5.The trial balance and errors19 · Practise
  6. 6.The cash book and discounts17 · Practise
  7. 7.Bank reconciliation statements15 · Practise
  8. 8.Petty cash and the imprest system12 · Practise
  9. 9.Final accounts of a sole trader20 · Practise
  10. 10.Accruals, prepayments and provisions17 · Practise
  11. 11.Depreciation of non-current assets17 · Practise
  12. 12.Control accounts15 · Practise
  13. 13.Incomplete records16 · Practise
  14. 14.Partnership accounts19 · Practise
  15. 15.Company accounts18 · Practise
  16. 16.Accounts of not-for-profit organisations15 · Practise
  17. 17.Manufacturing accounts15 · Practise
  18. 18.Branch and departmental accounts13 · Practise
  19. 19.Public sector accounting16 · Practise
• Agricultural Science16 topics · 306 questions

  1. 1.Meaning and importance of agriculture19 · Practise
  2. 2.Soil formation and properties21 · Practise
  3. 3.Soil fertility, manures and fertilisers24 · Practise
  4. 4.Farm tools and mechanisation17 · Practise
  5. 5.Crop classification and propagation18 · Practise
  6. 6.Husbandry of field crops22 · Practise
  7. 7.Crop pests and diseases20 · Practise
  8. 8.Weeds and weed control15 · Practise
  9. 9.Forestry15 · Practise
  10. 10.Classification and anatomy of farm animals19 · Practise
  11. 11.Animal reproduction and nutrition20 · Practise
  12. 12.Livestock management19 · Practise
  13. 13.Animal pests and diseases20 · Practise
  14. 14.Fisheries and aquaculture17 · Practise
  15. 15.Agricultural economics and extension22 · Practise
  16. 16.Irrigation and drainage18 · Practise
• Biology14 topics · 438 questions

  1. 1.Variety of organisms32 · Practise
  2. 2.Evolution27 · Practise
  3. 3.Cell structure and organisation30 · Practise
  4. 4.Cellular activities32 · Practise
  5. 5.Nutrition34 · Practise
  6. 6.Transport30 · Practise
  7. 7.Respiration30 · Practise
  8. 8.Excretion30 · Practise
  9. 9.Support and movement28 · Practise
  10. 10.Reproduction33 · Practise
  11. 11.Growth27 · Practise
  12. 12.Co-ordination and control31 · Practise
  13. 13.Ecology38 · Practise
  14. 14.Heredity and variation36 · Practise
• Chemistry18 topics · 443 questions

  1. 1.Separation of mixtures and purification24 · Practise
  2. 2.Chemical combination31 · Practise
  3. 3.Kinetic theory of matter and gas laws27 · Practise
  4. 4.Atomic structure and bonding33 · Practise
  5. 5.Air21 · Practise
  6. 6.Water21 · Practise
  7. 7.Solubility20 · Practise
  8. 8.Environmental pollution17 · Practise
  9. 9.Acids, bases and salts32 · Practise
  10. 10.Oxidation and reduction22 · Practise
  11. 11.Electrolysis22 · Practise
  12. 12.Energy changes22 · Practise
  13. 13.Rates of chemical reaction22 · Practise
  14. 14.Chemical equilibrium21 · Practise
  15. 15.Non-metals and their compounds23 · Practise
  16. 16.Metals and their compounds24 · Practise
  17. 17.Organic compounds43 · Practise
  18. 18.Chemistry and industry18 · Practise
• Christian Religious Studies12 topics · 308 questions

  1. 1.Creation and the Fall22 · Practise
  2. 2.God's covenant with Noah, Abraham and Israel22 · Practise
  3. 3.Joseph, Moses and the Exodus25 · Practise
  4. 4.Leadership: Joshua, the Judges and Samuel25 · Practise
  5. 5.Saul, David and Solomon26 · Practise
  6. 6.The divided kingdom and the prophets31 · Practise
  7. 7.Exile and return22 · Practise
  8. 8.Birth and early life of Jesus21 · Practise
  9. 9.Ministry, miracles and parables of Jesus32 · Practise
  10. 10.Trial, death and resurrection of Jesus25 · Practise
  11. 11.The early church in Acts29 · Practise
  12. 12.Teachings of the epistles28 · Practise
• Commerce18 topics · 307 questions

  1. 1.Commerce and its scope15 · Practise
  2. 2.Occupation and production16 · Practise
  3. 3.Home trade: retail and wholesale21 · Practise
  4. 4.Foreign trade21 · Practise
  5. 5.Transport17 · Practise
  6. 6.Communication16 · Practise
  7. 7.Advertising and marketing16 · Practise
  8. 8.Insurance21 · Practise
  9. 9.Money and banking21 · Practise
  10. 10.Warehousing13 · Practise
  11. 11.Forms of business organisation21 · Practise
  12. 12.Financing a business16 · Practise
  13. 13.Documents used in trade16 · Practise
  14. 14.The stock exchange17 · Practise
  15. 15.Consumer protection14 · Practise
  16. 16.Elements of commercial law15 · Practise
  17. 17.Computers and ICT in business14 · Practise
  18. 18.Business management and environment17 · Practise
• Computer Studies13 topics · 257 questions

  1. 1.Evolution of computing19 · Practise
  2. 2.Computer hardware and the CPU20 · Practise
  3. 3.Memory and storage devices21 · Practise
  4. 4.Input and output devices18 · Practise
  5. 5.Software and operating systems20 · Practise
  6. 6.Number systems and data representation23 · Practise
  7. 7.Logic gates and Boolean algebra18 · Practise
  8. 8.Application packages21 · Practise
  9. 9.Algorithms and flowcharts18 · Practise
  10. 10.Programming languages and BASIC21 · Practise
  11. 11.Computer networks and the internet22 · Practise
  12. 12.Computer security, ethics and safety18 · Practise
  13. 13.Data processing and information18 · Practise
• Economics24 topics · 378 questions

  1. 1.Economics as a science15 · Practise
  2. 2.Economic systems15 · Practise
  3. 3.Methods and tools of economic analysis15 · Practise
  4. 4.Theory of demand22 · Practise
  5. 5.Theory of consumer behaviour15 · Practise
  6. 6.Theory of supply16 · Practise
  7. 7.Theory of price determination16 · Practise
  8. 8.Theory of production15 · Practise
  9. 9.Theory of costs and revenue17 · Practise
  10. 10.Market structures16 · Practise
  11. 11.National income18 · Practise
  12. 12.Money and inflation17 · Practise
  13. 13.Financial institutions16 · Practise
  14. 14.Public finance17 · Practise
  15. 15.Economic growth and development15 · Practise
  16. 16.Agriculture in Nigeria15 · Practise
  17. 17.Industry and industrialisation15 · Practise
  18. 18.Natural resources and the Nigerian economy15 · Practise
  19. 19.Business organisations15 · Practise
  20. 20.Population15 · Practise
  21. 21.International trade16 · Practise
  22. 22.International economic organisations13 · Practise
  23. 23.Factors of production13 · Practise
  24. 24.The labour market16 · Practise
• English Language22 topics · 526 questions

  1. 1.Comprehension and summary50 · Practise
  2. 2.Lexis and structure22 · Practise
  3. 3.Oral forms6 · Practise
  4. 4.Cloze passages50 · Practise
  5. 5.Sentence interpretation37 · Practise
  6. 6.Summary7 · Practise
  7. 7.Words nearest in meaning46 · Practise
  8. 8.Words opposite in meaning47 · Practise
  9. 9.Idioms and figurative expressions32 · Practise
  10. 10.Concord (subject-verb agreement)25 · Practise
  11. 11.Tenses and verb forms25 · Practise
  12. 12.Pronouns and reference18 · Practise
  13. 13.Prepositions and phrasal verbs24 · Practise
  14. 14.Question tags14 · Practise
  15. 15.Clauses and sentence structure18 · Practise
  16. 16.Word classes14 · Practise
  17. 17.Vowel sounds25 · Practise
  18. 18.Consonant sounds20 · Practise
  19. 19.Word stress20 · Practise
  20. 20.Emphatic stress and intonation15 · Practise
  21. 21.Rhymes11 · Practise
  22. 22.The prescribed novelSoon
• Geography16 topics · 318 questions

  1. 1.Map reading: scale, direction and distance24 · Practise
  2. 2.Relief, contours and gradient18 · Practise
  3. 3.The earth in the solar system19 · Practise
  4. 4.Latitude, longitude and time19 · Practise
  5. 5.Rocks and minerals18 · Practise
  6. 6.Landforms, weathering and erosion28 · Practise
  7. 7.Weather and climate27 · Practise
  8. 8.Vegetation and soils18 · Practise
  9. 9.Environmental resources and hazards17 · Practise
  10. 10.Population19 · Practise
  11. 11.Settlement16 · Practise
  12. 12.Agriculture, industry and trade23 · Practise
  13. 13.Transport and communication networks14 · Practise
  14. 14.Geography of Nigeria22 · Practise
  15. 15.West Africa and ECOWAS17 · Practise
  16. 16.World regional geography19 · Practise
• Government25 topics · 381 questions

  1. 1.Basic concepts of government16 · Practise
  2. 2.Forms of government16 · Practise
  3. 3.Arms of government16 · Practise
  4. 4.Structures of governance (unitary, federal, confederal)15 · Practise
  5. 5.Systems of governance (presidential, parliamentary)15 · Practise
  6. 6.Political ideologies16 · Practise
  7. 7.The constitution16 · Practise
  8. 8.Principles of democratic government15 · Practise
  9. 9.Processes of legislation15 · Practise
  10. 10.Citizenship15 · Practise
  11. 11.The electoral process17 · Practise
  12. 12.Political parties and pressure groups15 · Practise
  13. 13.Public opinion14 · Practise
  14. 14.The civil service15 · Practise
  15. 15.Pre-colonial political systems15 · Practise
  16. 16.Colonial administration15 · Practise
  17. 17.Nationalism15 · Practise
  18. 18.Constitutional development in Nigeria15 · Practise
  19. 19.Post-independence constitutions15 · Practise
  20. 20.Institutions of government in Nigeria15 · Practise
  21. 21.Federalism in Nigeria15 · Practise
  22. 22.The military in Nigerian politics15 · Practise
  23. 23.Local government15 · Practise
  24. 24.Nigeria's foreign policy15 · Practise
  25. 25.Nigeria and international organisations15 · Practise
• History16 topics · 318 questions

  1. 1.The Nigeria area: land and early peoples19 · Practise
  2. 2.Early centres of civilisation19 · Practise
  3. 3.Kanem-Borno and the Hausa states21 · Practise
  4. 4.Oyo, Benin and the southern states23 · Practise
  5. 5.External influences: trade, Islam and Europeans20 · Practise
  6. 6.The Sokoto Jihad and caliphate20 · Practise
  7. 7.Southern Nigeria in the nineteenth century18 · Practise
  8. 8.British conquest of Nigeria20 · Practise
  9. 9.Colonial administration in Nigeria18 · Practise
  10. 10.The colonial economy19 · Practise
  11. 11.Nationalism and independence20 · Practise
  12. 12.Nigeria since independence26 · Practise
  13. 13.West Africa in the nineteenth century19 · Practise
  14. 14.Eastern and southern Africa18 · Practise
  15. 15.Partition, colonial rule and resistance in Africa17 · Practise
  16. 16.Decolonisation and African unity21 · Practise
• Islamic Religious Studies12 topics · 316 questions

  1. 1.The Qur'an: revelation and compilation22 · Practise
  2. 2.Selected suras and Qur'anic sciences32 · Practise
  3. 3.Hadith24 · Practise
  4. 4.Tawhid and the articles of faith25 · Practise
  5. 5.Taharah and salat30 · Practise
  6. 6.Zakat, sawm and hajj30 · Practise
  7. 7.Marriage, divorce and inheritance24 · Practise
  8. 8.Islamic economic teachings and trade22 · Practise
  9. 9.The life of the Prophet (Sirah)33 · Practise
  10. 10.The rightly guided caliphs21 · Practise
  11. 11.Islam in West Africa and Nigeria25 · Practise
  12. 12.Islamic moral teachings (Akhlaq)28 · Practise
• Literature in English11 topics · 295 questions

  1. 1.Drama: types and elements29 · Practise
  2. 2.Dramatic techniques37 · Practise
  3. 3.Prose: types of fiction20 · Practise
  4. 4.Prose: plot, setting and characterisation22 · Practise
  5. 5.Point of view and narrative techniques21 · Practise
  6. 6.Poetry: types and forms23 · Practise
  7. 7.Poetry: imagery, sound and structure27 · Practise
  8. 8.Figures of speech35 · Practise
  9. 9.General literary terms33 · Practise
  10. 10.Literary appreciation: unseen poetry24 · Practise
  11. 11.Literary appreciation: unseen prose24 · Practise
• Mathematics20 topics · 497 questions

  1. 1.Number bases25 · Practise
  2. 2.Fractions, decimals, approximations and percentages27 · Practise
  3. 3.Indices, logarithms and surds30 · Practise
  4. 4.Sets24 · Practise
  5. 5.Polynomials28 · Practise
  6. 6.Variation23 · Practise
  7. 7.Inequalities24 · Practise
  8. 8.Progressions26 · Practise
  9. 9.Binary operations22 · Practise
  10. 10.Matrices and determinants25 · Practise
  11. 11.Euclidean geometry25 · Practise
  12. 12.Mensuration26 · Practise
  13. 13.Loci19 · Practise
  14. 14.Coordinate geometry26 · Practise
  15. 15.Trigonometry26 · Practise
  16. 16.Differentiation24 · Practise
  17. 17.Integration23 · Practise
  18. 18.Statistics27 · Practise
  19. 19.Permutation and combination22 · Practise
  20. 20.Probability25 · Practise
• Physics34 topics · 450 questions

  1. 1.Measurements and units14 · Practise
  2. 2.Scalars and vectors13 · Practise
  3. 3.Motion21 · Practise
  4. 4.Gravitational field13 · Practise
  5. 5.Equilibrium of forces14 · Practise
  6. 6.Work, energy and power15 · Practise
  7. 7.Friction9 · Practise
  8. 8.Simple machines13 · Practise
  9. 9.Elasticity14 · Practise
  10. 10.Pressure13 · Practise
  11. 11.Liquids at rest13 · Practise
  12. 12.Temperature and its measurement12 · Practise
  13. 13.Thermal expansion12 · Practise
  14. 14.Gas laws13 · Practise
  15. 15.Quantity of heat13 · Practise
  16. 16.Change of state12 · Practise
  17. 17.Heat transfer12 · Practise
  18. 18.Waves17 · Practise
  19. 19.Sound waves13 · Practise
  20. 20.Light: reflection14 · Practise
  21. 21.Light: refraction15 · Practise
  22. 22.Optical instruments12 · Practise
  23. 23.Dispersion of light and colours11 · Practise
  24. 24.Electrostatics13 · Practise
  25. 25.Capacitors13 · Practise
  26. 26.Electric cells12 · Practise
  27. 27.Current electricity19 · Practise
  28. 28.Electrical energy and power13 · Practise
  29. 29.Magnets and magnetic fields12 · Practise
  30. 30.Electromagnetic induction14 · Practise
  31. 31.Simple a.c. circuits8 · Practise
  32. 32.Conduction of electricity through liquids and gases12 · Practise
  33. 33.Elementary modern physics16 · Practise
  34. 34.Introductory electronics10 · Practise

Topic headings follow the exam body’s published syllabus. Full objectives appear under “Official syllabus documents” once each one is entered from the official document and verified.