Take a good look at physics waec syllabus for 2018

🅟🅗🅨🅢🅘🅒🅢 Below is this year’s Waec Syllabus for Physics . Note that this syllabus is for both Internal and external candidates. 🅟🅡🅔🅐🅜🅑🅛🅔 This syllabus is evolved from the Senior Secondary School teaching syllabus and is intended to indicate the scope of the course for Physics examination. It is structured with the conceptual approach. The broad concepts of Matter, Position, Motion and Time; Energy; Waves; Fields; Atomic and Nuclear Physics, Electronics are considered and each concept forms a part on which other sub-concepts are further based. 🅐🅘🅜🅢 The aims of the syllabus are to: (1) acquire proper understanding of the basic principles and applications of Physics; (2) develop scientific skills and attitudes as pre-requisites for further scientific activities; (3) recognize the usefulness, and limitations of scientific method to appreciate its applicability in other disciplines and in everyday life; (4) develop abilities, attitudes and skills that encourage efficient and safe practice; (5) develop attitudes relevant to science such as concern for accuracy and precision, objectivity, integrity, initiative and inventiveness. 🅐🅢🅢🅔🅢🅢🅜🅔🅝🅣 🅞🅑🅙🅔🅒🅣🅘🅥🅔🅢 The following skills appropriate to Physics will be tested: (1) Knowledge and understanding: Candidates should be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of: (a) scientific phenomena, facts, laws, definitions, concepts and theories; (b) scientific vocabulary, terminology and conventions (including symbols, quantities and units); (c) the use of scientific apparatus, including techniques of operation and aspects of safety; (d) scientific quantities and their determinations; (e) scientific and technological applications with their social, economic and environmental implications. (2) Information Handling and Problem-solving Candidates should be able, using visual, oral, aural and written (including symbolic, diagrammatic, graphical and numerical) information to: (a) locate, select, organise and present information from a variety of sources, including everyday experience; (b) translate information from one form to another; (c) analyse and evaluate information and other data; (d) use information to identify patterns, report trends and draw inferences; (e) present reasonable explanations for natural occurrences, patterns and relationships; (f) make predictions from data. (3) Experimental and Problem-Solving Techniques Candidates should be able to: (a) follow instructions; (b) carry out experimental procedures using apparatus; (c) make and record observations, measurements and estimates with due regard to precision, accuracy and units; (d) interprete, evaluate and report on observations and experimental data; (e) identify problems, plan and carry out investigations, including the selection of techniques, apparatus, measuring devices and materials; (f) evaluate methods and suggest possible improvements; (g) state and explain the necessary precautions taken in experiments to obtain accurate results. There will be two papers both of which must be taken for a total mark of 160. Candidates will be allowed an extra 15 minutes for reading Paper 1 during which they are not expected to write anything. PAPER 1 : will be a practical test lasting 2¾ hours comprising three questions out of which candidates will answer any two to score a total mark of 50. The paper will be taken by school candidates only. Each question of this paper will have two Parts: A and B. (1) Part A will be an experiment for 21 marks. Candidates will be required to state the precautions taken during the experiments and reasons for such precautions. (2) Part B will consist of two short-answer questions that are related to the experiment for 4 marks. PAPER 2 : will consist of two sections: A and B which will last for 2¾ hours. Section A will comprise 50 multiple-choice objective questions drawn from the common areas of the syllabus. It will last for 1¼ hours for 50 marks. Section B will last for 1½ hours and will comprise of two parts: I and II. Part I will comprise ten (10) short-structured questions drawn from the portions of the syllabus peculiar to the different countries such that candidates from each member country will be able to answer five (5) questions for 15 marks. Part II will comprise five (5) essay-type questions drawn from the common areas of the syllabus. Candidates will be required to answer three (3) questions for 45 marks. PAPER 3 : will be an alternative test to Paper 1 for private candidates only. It will be a Test-of-Practical work lasting 2¾ hours for 50 marks. 🅟🅡🅐🅒🅣🅘🅒🅐🅛 🅟🅗🅨🅢🅘🅒🅢 This will be tested by a practical examination based on the syllabus. The objective of the practical examination is to test how well the candidates understand the nature of scientific investigation and their capability in handling simple apparatus in an experiment to determine an answer to a practical question. It is also to determine their competence in demonstrating their understanding of some of the principles involved in a small-scale laboratory experiment. The practical test will contain enough instructions to enable candidates to carry out the experiment. Even when standard experiments, such as the determination of focal lengths or specific heat capacities are set, candidates will be told what readings to take and how to calculate the result. Therefore, it should not be necessary for candidates to learn by heart how to perform any experiment. In addition to experiments on the topics in the syllabus, candidates may be asked to carry out with the aid of full instructions, variants of standard experiments. Candidates should be trained to take as varied a set of readings as possible and to set out the actual observed readings systematically on the answer sheet. The experiments may require a repetition of readings and an exhibition of results graphically and their interpretation.