WAEC syllabus

• Accounts (Principles of Accounts)19 topics · 297 questions

  1. 1.Nature and purpose of accounting14 · Practise
  2. 2.Accounting concepts and conventions17 · Practise
  3. 3.Source documents and books of original entry14 · Practise
  4. 4.Double entry and the ledger19 · Practise
  5. 5.The trial balance and errors16 · Practise
  6. 6.The cash book and discounts16 · Practise
  7. 7.Bank reconciliation statements16 · Practise
  8. 8.Petty cash and the imprest system14 · Practise
  9. 9.Final accounts of a sole trader19 · Practise
  10. 10.Accruals, prepayments and provisions17 · Practise
  11. 11.Depreciation of non-current assets17 · Practise
  12. 12.Control accounts15 · Practise
  13. 13.Incomplete records15 · Practise
  14. 14.Partnership accounts15 · Practise
  15. 15.Company accounts15 · Practise
  16. 16.Accounts of not-for-profit organisations14 · Practise
  17. 17.Manufacturing accounts14 · Practise
  18. 18.Branch and departmental accounts16 · Practise
  19. 19.Public sector accounting14 · Practise
• Agricultural Science16 topics · 291 questions

  1. 1.Meaning and importance of agriculture17 · Practise
  2. 2.Soil formation and properties18 · Practise
  3. 3.Soil fertility, manures and fertilisers19 · Practise
  4. 4.Farm tools and mechanisation18 · Practise
  5. 5.Crop classification and propagation18 · Practise
  6. 6.Husbandry of field crops19 · Practise
  7. 7.Crop pests and diseases19 · Practise
  8. 8.Weeds and weed control18 · Practise
  9. 9.Forestry18 · Practise
  10. 10.Classification and anatomy of farm animals18 · Practise
  11. 11.Animal reproduction and nutrition18 · Practise
  12. 12.Livestock management18 · Practise
  13. 13.Animal pests and diseases18 · Practise
  14. 14.Fisheries and aquaculture18 · Practise
  15. 15.Agricultural economics and extension19 · Practise
  16. 16.Irrigation and drainage18 · Practise
• Biology14 topics · 353 questions

  1. 1.Variety of organisms28 · Practise
  2. 2.Evolution18 · Practise
  3. 3.Cell structure and organisation26 · Practise
  4. 4.Cellular activities24 · Practise
  5. 5.Nutrition30 · Practise
  6. 6.Transport27 · Practise
  7. 7.Respiration25 · Practise
  8. 8.Excretion22 · Practise
  9. 9.Support and movement22 · Practise
  10. 10.Reproduction29 · Practise
  11. 11.Growth18 · Practise
  12. 12.Co-ordination and control27 · Practise
  13. 13.Ecology33 · Practise
  14. 14.Heredity and variation24 · Practise
• Chemistry18 topics · 357 questions

  1. 1.Separation of mixtures and purification18 · Practise
  2. 2.Chemical combination27 · Practise
  3. 3.Kinetic theory of matter and gas laws18 · Practise
  4. 4.Atomic structure and bonding26 · Practise
  5. 5.Air16 · Practise
  6. 6.Water18 · Practise
  7. 7.Solubility16 · Practise
  8. 8.Environmental pollution15 · Practise
  9. 9.Acids, bases and salts26 · Practise
  10. 10.Oxidation and reduction19 · Practise
  11. 11.Electrolysis19 · Practise
  12. 12.Energy changes16 · Practise
  13. 13.Rates of chemical reaction16 · Practise
  14. 14.Chemical equilibrium16 · Practise
  15. 15.Non-metals and their compounds22 · Practise
  16. 16.Metals and their compounds23 · Practise
  17. 17.Organic compounds29 · Practise
  18. 18.Chemistry and industry17 · Practise
• Christian Religious Studies12 topics · 297 questions

  1. 1.Creation and the Fall25 · Practise
  2. 2.God's covenant with Noah, Abraham and Israel23 · Practise
  3. 3.Joseph, Moses and the Exodus26 · Practise
  4. 4.Leadership: Joshua, the Judges and Samuel24 · Practise
  5. 5.Saul, David and Solomon25 · Practise
  6. 6.The divided kingdom and the prophets26 · Practise
  7. 7.Exile and return22 · Practise
  8. 8.Birth and early life of Jesus24 · Practise
  9. 9.Ministry, miracles and parables of Jesus27 · Practise
  10. 10.Trial, death and resurrection of Jesus24 · Practise
  11. 11.The early church in Acts27 · Practise
  12. 12.Teachings of the epistles24 · Practise
• Civic Education16 topics · 295 questions

  1. 1.Values and their importance19 · Practise
  2. 2.Citizenship and citizenship education19 · Practise
  3. 3.National consciousness, identity and integration20 · Practise
  4. 4.Human rights20 · Practise
  5. 5.Law, order and the rule of law18 · Practise
  6. 6.Democracy and popular participation19 · Practise
  7. 7.Political apathy18 · Practise
  8. 8.Civil society and pressure groups17 · Practise
  9. 9.The public service18 · Practise
  10. 10.Constituted authority and government18 · Practise
  11. 11.Interpersonal and community relationships17 · Practise
  12. 12.Cultism and violence18 · Practise
  13. 13.Drug and substance abuse19 · Practise
  14. 14.Human trafficking18 · Practise
  15. 15.HIV/AIDS19 · Practise
  16. 16.Youth empowerment18 · Practise
• Commerce18 topics · 304 questions

  1. 1.Commerce and its scope16 · Practise
  2. 2.Occupation and production17 · Practise
  3. 3.Home trade: retail and wholesale19 · Practise
  4. 4.Foreign trade19 · Practise
  5. 5.Transport16 · Practise
  6. 6.Communication17 · Practise
  7. 7.Advertising and marketing16 · Practise
  8. 8.Insurance18 · Practise
  9. 9.Money and banking19 · Practise
  10. 10.Warehousing15 · Practise
  11. 11.Forms of business organisation19 · Practise
  12. 12.Financing a business16 · Practise
  13. 13.Documents used in trade18 · Practise
  14. 14.The stock exchange17 · Practise
  15. 15.Consumer protection16 · Practise
  16. 16.Elements of commercial law16 · Practise
  17. 17.Computers and ICT in business15 · Practise
  18. 18.Business management and environment15 · Practise
• Computer Studies13 topics · 291 questions

  1. 1.Evolution of computing23 · Practise
  2. 2.Computer hardware and the CPU21 · Practise
  3. 3.Memory and storage devices23 · Practise
  4. 4.Input and output devices22 · Practise
  5. 5.Software and operating systems22 · Practise
  6. 6.Number systems and data representation24 · Practise
  7. 7.Logic gates and Boolean algebra21 · Practise
  8. 8.Application packages25 · Practise
  9. 9.Algorithms and flowcharts21 · Practise
  10. 10.Programming languages and BASIC22 · Practise
  11. 11.Computer networks and the internet23 · Practise
  12. 12.Computer security, ethics and safety22 · Practise
  13. 13.Data processing and information22 · Practise
• Economics24 topics · 367 questions

  1. 1.Economics as a science15 · Practise
  2. 2.Economic systems13 · Practise
  3. 3.Methods and tools of economic analysis14 · Practise
  4. 4.Theory of demand21 · Practise
  5. 5.Theory of consumer behaviour15 · Practise
  6. 6.Theory of supply16 · Practise
  7. 7.Theory of price determination14 · Practise
  8. 8.Theory of production14 · Practise
  9. 9.Theory of costs and revenue16 · Practise
  10. 10.Market structures15 · Practise
  11. 11.National income18 · Practise
  12. 12.Money and inflation17 · Practise
  13. 13.Financial institutions14 · Practise
  14. 14.Public finance14 · 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 organisations14 · Practise
  20. 20.Population15 · Practise
  21. 21.International trade16 · Practise
  22. 22.International economic organisations16 · Practise
  23. 23.Factors of production15 · Practise
  24. 24.The labour market15 · Practise
• English Language23 topics · 396 questions

  1. 1.Comprehension and summarySoon
  2. 2.Lexis and structure38 · Practise
  3. 3.Oral formsSoon
  4. 4.Cloze passagesSoon
  5. 5.Sentence interpretation19 · Practise
  6. 6.SummarySoon
  7. 7.Words nearest in meaning39 · Practise
  8. 8.Words opposite in meaning38 · Practise
  9. 9.Idioms and figurative expressions27 · Practise
  10. 10.Concord (subject-verb agreement)26 · Practise
  11. 11.Tenses and verb forms26 · Practise
  12. 12.Pronouns and reference18 · Practise
  13. 13.Prepositions and phrasal verbs24 · Practise
  14. 14.Question tags18 · Practise
  15. 15.Clauses and sentence structure19 · Practise
  16. 16.Word classes19 · Practise
  17. 17.Vowel sounds22 · Practise
  18. 18.Consonant sounds19 · Practise
  19. 19.Word stress18 · Practise
  20. 20.Emphatic stress and intonation15 · Practise
  21. 21.Rhymes11 · Practise
  22. 22.The prescribed novelSoon
  23. 23.Essay and letter writingSoon
• Further Mathematics17 topics · 267 questions

  1. 1.Sets, binary operations and logic16 · Practise
  2. 2.Surds, indices and logarithms16 · Practise
  3. 3.Polynomials and the remainder theorem16 · Practise
  4. 4.Functions and rational functions15 · Practise
  5. 5.Sequences and series16 · Practise
  6. 6.The binomial theorem15 · Practise
  7. 7.Permutations and combinations15 · Practise
  8. 8.Matrices and determinants16 · Practise
  9. 9.Trigonometry16 · Practise
  10. 10.Coordinate geometry and conic sections16 · Practise
  11. 11.Differentiation18 · Practise
  12. 12.Integration16 · Practise
  13. 13.Statistics15 · Practise
  14. 14.Probability16 · Practise
  15. 15.Vectors16 · Practise
  16. 16.Statics14 · Practise
  17. 17.Dynamics15 · Practise
• Geography16 topics · 296 questions

  1. 1.Map reading: scale, direction and distance25 · Practise
  2. 2.Relief, contours and gradient17 · Practise
  3. 3.The earth in the solar system17 · Practise
  4. 4.Latitude, longitude and time17 · Practise
  5. 5.Rocks and minerals18 · Practise
  6. 6.Landforms, weathering and erosion24 · Practise
  7. 7.Weather and climate24 · Practise
  8. 8.Vegetation and soils18 · Practise
  9. 9.Environmental resources and hazards16 · Practise
  10. 10.Population18 · Practise
  11. 11.Settlement17 · Practise
  12. 12.Agriculture, industry and trade19 · Practise
  13. 13.Transport and communication networks15 · Practise
  14. 14.Geography of Nigeria20 · Practise
  15. 15.West Africa and ECOWAS16 · Practise
  16. 16.World regional geography15 · Practise
• Government25 topics · 366 questions

  1. 1.Basic concepts of government17 · Practise
  2. 2.Forms of government15 · Practise
  3. 3.Arms of government15 · Practise
  4. 4.Structures of governance (unitary, federal, confederal)14 · Practise
  5. 5.Systems of governance (presidential, parliamentary)16 · Practise
  6. 6.Political ideologies14 · Practise
  7. 7.The constitution15 · Practise
  8. 8.Principles of democratic government16 · Practise
  9. 9.Processes of legislation14 · Practise
  10. 10.Citizenship14 · Practise
  11. 11.The electoral process17 · Practise
  12. 12.Political parties and pressure groups14 · Practise
  13. 13.Public opinion13 · Practise
  14. 14.The civil service14 · Practise
  15. 15.Pre-colonial political systems15 · Practise
  16. 16.Colonial administration15 · Practise
  17. 17.Nationalism14 · Practise
  18. 18.Constitutional development in Nigeria15 · Practise
  19. 19.Post-independence constitutions14 · Practise
  20. 20.Institutions of government in Nigeria14 · Practise
  21. 21.Federalism in Nigeria14 · Practise
  22. 22.The military in Nigerian politics14 · Practise
  23. 23.Local government14 · Practise
  24. 24.Nigeria's foreign policy14 · Practise
  25. 25.Nigeria and international organisations15 · Practise
• History16 topics · 292 questions

  1. 1.The Nigeria area: land and early peoples17 · Practise
  2. 2.Early centres of civilisation18 · Practise
  3. 3.Kanem-Borno and the Hausa states20 · Practise
  4. 4.Oyo, Benin and the southern states21 · Practise
  5. 5.External influences: trade, Islam and Europeans18 · Practise
  6. 6.The Sokoto Jihad and caliphate18 · Practise
  7. 7.Southern Nigeria in the nineteenth century18 · Practise
  8. 8.British conquest of Nigeria18 · Practise
  9. 9.Colonial administration in Nigeria18 · Practise
  10. 10.The colonial economy18 · Practise
  11. 11.Nationalism and independence20 · Practise
  12. 12.Nigeria since independence18 · Practise
  13. 13.West Africa in the nineteenth century17 · Practise
  14. 14.Eastern and southern Africa17 · Practise
  15. 15.Partition, colonial rule and resistance in Africa17 · Practise
  16. 16.Decolonisation and African unity19 · Practise
• Islamic Religious Studies12 topics · 290 questions

  1. 1.The Qur'an: revelation and compilation24 · Practise
  2. 2.Selected suras and Qur'anic sciences23 · Practise
  3. 3.Hadith22 · Practise
  4. 4.Tawhid and the articles of faith22 · Practise
  5. 5.Taharah and salat28 · Practise
  6. 6.Zakat, sawm and hajj27 · Practise
  7. 7.Marriage, divorce and inheritance25 · Practise
  8. 8.Islamic economic teachings and trade22 · Practise
  9. 9.The life of the Prophet (Sirah)28 · Practise
  10. 10.The rightly guided caliphs23 · Practise
  11. 11.Islam in West Africa and Nigeria23 · Practise
  12. 12.Islamic moral teachings (Akhlaq)23 · Practise
• Literature in English18 topics · 152 questions

  1. 1.Drama: types and elements9 · Practise
  2. 2.Dramatic techniques7 · Practise
  3. 3.Prose: types of fiction6 · Practise
  4. 4.Prose: plot, setting and characterisation7 · Practise
  5. 5.Point of view and narrative techniques6 · Practise
  6. 6.Poetry: types and forms7 · Practise
  7. 7.Poetry: imagery, sound and structure7 · Practise
  8. 8.Figures of speech9 · Practise
  9. 9.General literary terms7 · Practise
  10. 10.Literary appreciation: unseen poetry5 · Practise
  11. 11.Literary appreciation: unseen prose5 · Practise
  12. 12.Set text: Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare)13 · Practise
  13. 13.Set text: To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)14 · Practise
  14. 14.Set text: An Inspector Calls (J. B. Priestley)10 · Practise
  15. 15.Set text: A Man for All Seasons (Robert Bolt)9 · Practise
  16. 16.Set text: The Marriage of Anansewa (Efua Sutherland)4 · Practise
  17. 17.Set poems: African poetry10 · Practise
  18. 18.Set poems: Non-African poetry17 · Practise
• Mathematics20 topics · 364 questions

  1. 1.Number bases24 · Practise
  2. 2.Fractions, decimals, approximations and percentages29 · Practise
  3. 3.Indices, logarithms and surds29 · Practise
  4. 4.Sets22 · Practise
  5. 5.Polynomials29 · Practise
  6. 6.Variation19 · Practise
  7. 7.Inequalities17 · Practise
  8. 8.Progressions22 · Practise
  9. 9.Binary operations13 · Practise
  10. 10.Matrices and determinantsSoon
  11. 11.Euclidean geometry26 · Practise
  12. 12.Mensuration27 · Practise
  13. 13.Loci12 · Practise
  14. 14.Coordinate geometry20 · Practise
  15. 15.Trigonometry26 · Practise
  16. 16.DifferentiationSoon
  17. 17.IntegrationSoon
  18. 18.Statistics26 · Practise
  19. 19.Permutation and combinationSoon
  20. 20.Probability23 · Practise
• Physics34 topics · 379 questions

  1. 1.Measurements and units12 · Practise
  2. 2.Scalars and vectors11 · Practise
  3. 3.Motion22 · Practise
  4. 4.Gravitational field11 · Practise
  5. 5.Equilibrium of forces12 · Practise
  6. 6.Work, energy and power14 · Practise
  7. 7.Friction9 · Practise
  8. 8.Simple machines11 · Practise
  9. 9.Elasticity11 · Practise
  10. 10.Pressure11 · Practise
  11. 11.Liquids at rest11 · Practise
  12. 12.Temperature and its measurement10 · Practise
  13. 13.Thermal expansion11 · Practise
  14. 14.Gas laws11 · Practise
  15. 15.Quantity of heat11 · Practise
  16. 16.Change of state11 · Practise
  17. 17.Heat transfer10 · Practise
  18. 18.Waves14 · Practise
  19. 19.Sound waves11 · Practise
  20. 20.Light: reflection11 · Practise
  21. 21.Light: refraction12 · Practise
  22. 22.Optical instruments10 · Practise
  23. 23.Dispersion of light and colours10 · Practise
  24. 24.Electrostatics9 · Practise
  25. 25.Capacitors10 · Practise
  26. 26.Electric cells9 · Practise
  27. 27.Current electricity15 · Practise
  28. 28.Electrical energy and power11 · Practise
  29. 29.Magnets and magnetic fields9 · Practise
  30. 30.Electromagnetic induction11 · Practise
  31. 31.Simple a.c. circuits9 · Practise
  32. 32.Conduction of electricity through liquids and gases9 · Practise
  33. 33.Elementary modern physics11 · Practise
  34. 34.Introductory electronics9 · 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.