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Below are video lessons to aid your preparation in the forthcoming JAMB exam taught according to the JAMB syllabus. If you genuinely finish this lessons and answer questions from the O3SCHOOLS JAMB APP, then success will be smiling at you.
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English Language Lessons 2024
Episode 0 – JAMB English Syllabus and The structure Of JAMB English Examination
Episode 1 – Nouns + Past questions and Solutions
Episode 2 – JAMB ENGLISH 2024 EP2 – Pronouns (Types, Rules) Past questions + Solutions
Episode 3 – JAMB ENGLISH 2024 EP3 – Adjectives (Types, Degrees, Orders) + Past Questions & Answers
Episode 4 – JAMB English 2024, EP 4 – Verbs, Types, Rules, Practice Questions
Episode 5 – JAMB English 2024 EP 5 – Adverbs (Rules & Degrees) + Likely Exam Questions & Solution
Episode 6 – JAMB English 2024 EP 6 – Question Tags + Likely Exam Questions & Answers
Episode 7 – JAMB English 2024 EP 7 – Prepositions + Likely Exam Questions & Answers
Episode 8 – JAMB English 2024 EP 8 – Conjunctions & Interjections _ Likely Exam Questions & Answers
Episode 9 – JAMB English 2024 EP 9 – Active and Passive Voice + Likely Exam Questions & Answers
Episode 10 – JAMB English 2024 EP 10 – Direct and Indirect Speech + LIkely Exam Questions & Solutions
Episode 11 – JAMB English 2024 EP 11 – Vowel Sounds /1:/ & /I/ (Part 1) + Likely Exam Questions
Episode 12 – JAMB English 2024 EP 12 – Vowel Sound /e/ & /ɜː/ + Likely Exam Questions & Solutions
Episode 13 – JAMB English 2024 EP 13 – Vowel Sound /æ/ & /ɑ:/ + Likely Exam Questions & Solutions
Episode 14 – JAMB English 2024 EP 14 – Vowel Sounds /ɔ/ & /ɔ:/ + Likely Exam Questions & Solutions
Episode 15 – JAMB English 2024 EP 15 – Vowel Sounds /ʊ/ & /u:/ + Likely Exam Questions & Solutions
Episode 16 – JAMB English 2024 EP 16 – Vowel Sounds /ʌ/ & /ə/ + Likely Exam Questions & Solutions
Episode 17 – JAMB English 2024 EP 17 – Diphthongs + Likely Exam Questions and Solutions
Episode 18 – JAMB ENGLISH 2024 Episode 18 – Consonants /b/ and /p/ + Likely Exam Questions and Solutions
Episode 19 – JAMB English 2024 EP 19 – Consonant Sounds /t/ & /d/ + Likely Exam Questions and Solutions
Episode 20 – JAMB English 2024 EP 20 – Consonants /k/ & /g/ + Likely Exam Questions and Solutions
Episode 21 – JAMB English 2024 EP 21 Consonants /f/ and /v/ + Likely Exam Questions & Solutions
Episode 22 – JAMB English 2024 EP 22 – Consonants /s/ and /z/ + Likely Exam Questions and Solutions
Episode 23 – JAMB English 2024 EP 23 Consonants /r/ and /l/ + Likely Exam Questions and Solutions
Episode 24 – JAMB English 2024 EP 24 – Consonants /m/ and /w/ + Likely Exam Questions & Solutions
Episode 25 – JAMB English 2024 EP 25 – Consonants /θ/ and /ð/ + Likely Exam Questions and Solutions
Episode 26 – JAMB English 2024 EP 26 – Consonant Sounds /ʃ/ and /ʒ/ + Likely Exam Questions & Solutions
Episode 27 – JAMB English 2024 EP 27 – Consonant /tʃ/ and /dʒ/ + Likely Exam Questions & Solutions
Episode 28 – JAMB English 2024 EP 28 – Consonants /n/ & /ŋ/ + Likely Exam Questions & Solutions
Episode 29 – JAMB English 2024 EP 29 – Consonants /h/ and /j/ + Likely Exam Questions and Solutions
Episode 30 – JAMB English 2024 EP 30 – Rhyme + Likely Exam Questions and Solutions
Episode 31 – JAMB English 2024 EP 31 – Stress Pattern + Likely Exam Questions and Answers
Episode 32 – JAMB English 2023 EP 32 – Emphatic Stress + Likely Exam Questions & Solutions
What are the topics for JAMB English?
It is designed to test their achievement of the course objectives, which are to:
(1) communicate effectively in both written and spoken English;
(2) have a sound linguistic basis for learning at the tertiary level.
Structure
Questions will be set from the following topics.
1. Comprehension – with 5 questions allocated to it.
2. Cloze passage – with 10 questions allocated to it.
3. Sweet Sixteen – 10 questions allocated to it.
4. Sentence completion – 5 questions allocated to it.
5. Sentence interpretation – 5 questions allocated to it.
6. Antonyms – 5 questions allocated to it.
7. Synonyms – 5 questions allocated to it.
8. Oral forms – 15 questions allocated to it.
Topic 1: Comprehension/Summary
(a) description
(b) narration
(c) exposition
(d) argumentation/persuasion
(i) Each of the three passages to be set (one will be a cloze test) should reflect various disciplines and be about 200 words long.
(ii) Questions on the passages will test the following:
(a) Comprehension of the whole or part of each passage.
(b) Comprehension of words, phrases, clauses, sentences, figures of speech and idioms as used in the passages.
(c) Coherence and logical reasoning (deductions, inferences, etc).
(d) Novels to be Read:
(i) UTME Candidates: “Sweet Sixteen” by Bolaji Abdullahi
(ii) DE Candidates: “The Last Days at Forcados High School”, A. H. Mohammed
(e) Synthesis of ideas from the passages.
NOTE: By synthesis of ideas is meant the art of combining distinct or separate pieces of information to form a complete whole.
Objectives
Candidates should be able to:
i. identify main points/topic sentences in passages;
ii. determine implied meaning;
iii. identify the grammatical functions of words, phrases, clauses and figurative/idiomatic expressions;
iv. deduce or infer the writer’s intentions including mood, attitude to the subject matter and opinion.
Topic 2: Lexis and Structure
(a) synonyms
(b) antonyms
(c) homonyms
(d) clause and sentence patterns
(e) word classes and their functions
(f) mood, tense, aspect, number, agreement/concord, degree (positive, comparative and superlative) and question tags
(g) punctuation and spelling
(h) ordinary usage, figurative usage and idiomatic usage are to be tested.
NOTE: Idioms to be tested shall be those that are formal and expressed in standard British English.
Objectives
Candidates should be able to:
i. identify words and expressions in their ordinary, figurative and idiomatic contexts;
ii. determine similar and opposite meaning of words;
iii. differentiate between correct and incorrect punctuation and spelling;
iv. identify various grammatical patterns in use;
v. interpret information conveyed in sentences.
Topic 3: Oral Forms
(a) Vowels (monophthongs and diphthongs
(b) Consonants (including clusters)
(c) Rhymes (including homophones)
(d) Word stress (monosyllabic and polysyllabic)
(e) Intonation (words emphatic stress)
NOTE: Emphatic stress involves the placement of normal stress on words in an utterance for the purpose of emphasis.
Objectives
Candidates should be able to:
i. make distinctions between vowel types;
ii. differentiate between consonant types;
iii. identify correct accentuation in individual words and connected speech.
Topics By Popularity
Given below is an average percentage of the number of questions set on different topics. This computer analysis was done from 17 years of past questions to come up with these rare statistics. This information should guide you on some of the topics you should give more attention to:
Rank Topic % Number of Questions
1 LEXIS AND STRUCTURE 57.94
2 COMPREHENSION/SUMMARY 28.06
3 ORAL FORMS 14
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