This is the complete Typewriting WAEC Syllabus for this years WAEC examination. Candidates for WAEC GCE (External) and candidates for WAEC SSCE (Internal) are reminded to use this syllabus to prepare for their examination. Click here "WAEC Syllabus" to get the rest of the subjects.
Below is the WAEC Syllabus for this year; kindly make judicious use of it.
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Typewriting WAEC Syllabus
Below is the WAEC Syllabus for this year; kindly make judicious use of it.
(40 WPM)
Letters and memoranda with insets, continuation sheets, subject headings, enclosures, attention lines, including private, personal, confidential and indicating distribution of carbon copies.
Form letters, circular letters with or without tear-off portions; envelope addressing; envelope with special marks.
Main, sub-heading, shoulder, paragraph and marginal/side heading.
(ii) Paragraphing
Blocked, indented and hanging paragraphs.
(iii) Paragraph numbering
Arabic, Roman, decimal and alphabetical.
(iv) Display Work
Menu, advertisement, and itineraries.
(v) Meetings and report
Notice of meetings (with or without agenda). Chairman’s agenda, Minutes and reports.
(vi) Business Forms, Cards etc.
Completion of pre-printed forms:
Application and personal records forms, invoices, order forms, delivery note, advise note, invitation cards and postcards.
(vii) Tabulation
Tabulation with ruling, with or without leader dots, chronological and alphabetical arrangements.
(viii) Literary Work
Short plays, poems and articles. Footnotes.
(ix) Financial Statement
Simple statement of accounts
(c) The centre concerned will be responsible for the effective segregation of candidates to ensure that for the duration of the examination, candidates leaving an earlier session do not have any contact with those attending a later session.
(d) Application for such sessions, giving the number of papers required for each session and the times suggested must be made when the entry forms are returned to the appropriate national office.
(e) The typewriting teacher should not act as a Supervisor/Invigilator in his or her own school, but may be available to assist should defects in a machine unexpectedly hamper a candidate’s progress.
(f) There should be an alternative paper (Alternative B). This paper will be available to schools which cannot accommodate all the candidates for the typewriting examination on the scheduled day on condition that the Council is given, at least, six months notification.
(g) The use of electric typewriters may be permitted. However, the Council will not accept responsibility for any electrical/electronic problems. The Supervisor and Invigilator should ensure that the memory of the typewriter is removed or cleared and that the candidate submits typed scripts of the speed and accuracy test.
(h) Any satisfactory method of erasure will be allowed, except in the speed and accuracy test where no corrections will be permitted.
(i) Dictionaries may also be used in the examination.
A4 headed : : 2
A4 memorandum : : 2
A4 yellow flimsy : : 4
A5 plain : : 4
A5 headed : : 2
A5 memorandum : : 2
C6 envelope : : 2
Card (approx. 6” x 4” – 152mm x 100mm) :
Speed Test Sheet 1 light blue/green paper
Carbon papers
Candidates are instructed that no headed stationery other than that provided by the Council may be used.
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PREAMBLE
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SCHEME OF EXAMINATION
- The total time allowed for the examination will be 2 hours 45 minutes.
- 5 minutes for warming up on the material supplied by the Council in the examination paper. The time taken for typing the preliminary passage will not be included in the time for the examination.
- 5 minutes for a speed and accuracy test.
- 10 minutes for reading through the examination paper.
- 2 hours 30 minutes for production tasks.
- The speed and accuracy test will be set at 40 words per minute and will carry 10 percent of the total marks. The syllabic intensity of the passage will range between 1.35 and 1.40.
- The production test will consist of a maximum of 5 tasks and will start after all the scripts for the speed and accuracy test have been collected and duly initialed by the invigilator.
- The total standard words for the examination (both tasks and accuracy test) will ranfe between 1350 and 1450.
- The total number of instructions attracting penalties will range between 40 and 50.
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SCOPE OF THE SYLLABUS
- Correspondence
Letters and memoranda with insets, continuation sheets, subject headings, enclosures, attention lines, including private, personal, confidential and indicating distribution of carbon copies.
Form letters, circular letters with or without tear-off portions; envelope addressing; envelope with special marks.
- Manuscript
- Display work
Main, sub-heading, shoulder, paragraph and marginal/side heading.
(ii) Paragraphing
Blocked, indented and hanging paragraphs.
(iii) Paragraph numbering
Arabic, Roman, decimal and alphabetical.
(iv) Display Work
Menu, advertisement, and itineraries.
(v) Meetings and report
Notice of meetings (with or without agenda). Chairman’s agenda, Minutes and reports.
Completion of pre-printed forms:
Application and personal records forms, invoices, order forms, delivery note, advise note, invitation cards and postcards.
(vii) Tabulation
Tabulation with ruling, with or without leader dots, chronological and alphabetical arrangements.
(viii) Literary Work
Short plays, poems and articles. Footnotes.
(ix) Financial Statement
Simple statement of accounts
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NOTES ON THE EXAMINATION
- Facilities and scheduling: for the successful implementation of this syllabus, it is recommended that institutions running this course should provide sufficient number of typewriters for the students, and at least have a minimum of 5 periods of 40 minutes each per week. Qualified typewriting teachers should handle the subject.
(c) The centre concerned will be responsible for the effective segregation of candidates to ensure that for the duration of the examination, candidates leaving an earlier session do not have any contact with those attending a later session.
(d) Application for such sessions, giving the number of papers required for each session and the times suggested must be made when the entry forms are returned to the appropriate national office.
(e) The typewriting teacher should not act as a Supervisor/Invigilator in his or her own school, but may be available to assist should defects in a machine unexpectedly hamper a candidate’s progress.
(f) There should be an alternative paper (Alternative B). This paper will be available to schools which cannot accommodate all the candidates for the typewriting examination on the scheduled day on condition that the Council is given, at least, six months notification.
(g) The use of electric typewriters may be permitted. However, the Council will not accept responsibility for any electrical/electronic problems. The Supervisor and Invigilator should ensure that the memory of the typewriter is removed or cleared and that the candidate submits typed scripts of the speed and accuracy test.
(h) Any satisfactory method of erasure will be allowed, except in the speed and accuracy test where no corrections will be permitted.
(i) Dictionaries may also be used in the examination.
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SUGGESTED STATIONERY FOR THE EXAMINATION
A4 headed : : 2
A4 memorandum : : 2
A4 yellow flimsy : : 4
A5 plain : : 4
A5 headed : : 2
A5 memorandum : : 2
C6 envelope : : 2
Card (approx. 6” x 4” – 152mm x 100mm) :
Speed Test Sheet 1 light blue/green paper
Carbon papers
Candidates are instructed that no headed stationery other than that provided by the Council may be used.
SUGGESTED READING LIST
| AUTHOR | TITLE | PUBLISHER |
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Iris Kerry Paul Bailey And Emmanuel Odina Odepidan A F Edith Mackay Sam O. Arjarquah Edith Mackay Drummond And Scattergood Edith Mackay |
Typewriting For Senior Secondary School Typing For West Africa Wamsley Commercial Typewriting (West Africa Edition) Universal Typing Realistic Office Assignments Basic Typewriting Universal Typing Students Book Applied Typing Universal Typing Advanced |
Longman Macmillan Pitmans Pitmans Pitmans Pitmans |
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