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Nigeria 🇳🇬JAMB UTME — compulsory Use of English plus 14 subjects to choose from, each with its own Beginner–Advanced track.
📏 UTME is scored out of 400 (Use of English + 3 chosen subjects, 100 marks each). Most universities set 180+ as the general cut-off; competitive courses need 250+.
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Use of EnglishMathematicsPhysicsChemistryBiologyGovernmentEconomicsLiterature-in-EnglishChristian Religious StudiesIslamic Religious StudiesGeographyAccountingCommerceAgricultural ScienceFrench
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Beginner
Beginner skill
No prior knowledge assumed — the vocabulary and core elements of Literature-in-English as WAEC/JAMB test them.
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🔒 After lessonsGenres and Literary Devices
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StartThe Three Genres of Literature
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Figures of Speech: Simile, Metaphor and Personification
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🔒 After lessonsElements of Prose Fiction
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Plot and Setting
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Characterization
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🔒 After lessonsElements of Drama
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Plot Structure in Drama: Exposition, Conflict, Climax, Resolution
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Dramatic Techniques: Dialogue, Stage Directions, Soliloquy
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🔒 After lessonsLiterature — Genre and the Types of Writing
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Genre: the Types of Drama, Prose and Poetry
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Intermediate
Intermediate skill
Deeper analysis of poetry, theme and narrative technique — the skills WASSCE tests beyond simple identification.
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🔒 After lessonsElements of Poetry
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Rhyme, Rhythm and Meter
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Poetic Devices: Imagery, Alliteration, Symbolism
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🔒 After lessonsTheme and Conflict
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Identifying Theme in Prose and Drama
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Types of Conflict: Man vs Man, Man vs Society, Man vs Self
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🔒 Module checkpoint · PremiumPoint of View and Narrative Technique
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🔒 Module checkpoint · PremiumLiterature — Poetry and Literary Principles
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Advanced
Advanced skill
Critical appreciation, unseen passages and comparative analysis — the skills that separate top Literature-in-English scores.
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🔒 Module checkpoint · PremiumCritical Appreciation
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🔒 Module checkpoint · PremiumTone, Mood and Style
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🔒 Module checkpoint · PremiumAfrican Literature in Context
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- Types of drama (tragedy, comedy, tragicomedy, melodrama, farce, opera)Genre: the Types of Drama, Prose and Poetry →
- Dramatic techniques (characterisation, dialogue, flashback, mime, soliloquy and aside, acts and scenes, costume, décor)Dramatic Techniques: Dialogue, Stage Directions, Soliloquy →Flashback and Foreshadowing →
- Prescribed African drama text: theme, plot, characters, setting and socio-political contextThe Three Genres of Literature →Plot and Setting →
- Prescribed non-African drama text: theme, plot, characters, setting and socio-political contextPlot and Setting →Plot Structure in Drama: Exposition, Conflict, Climax, Resolution →
- Types of prose (fiction: novel, novella, short story; non-fiction: biography, autobiography, memoir; faction)Genre: the Types of Drama, Prose and Poetry →
- Narrative techniques (point of view; characterisation: round, flat, foil, hero, antihero; language)Narrative Point of View: First-Person, Third-Person, Omniscient →
- Prescribed African prose texts: theme, plot, characters, setting and socio-political contextThe Three Genres of Literature →Plot and Setting →
- Prescribed non-African prose text: theme, plot, characters, setting and socio-political contextThe Three Genres of Literature →Identifying Theme in Prose and Drama →
- Types of poetry (sonnet, ode, lyric, elegy, ballad, panegyric, epic, blank verse)Genre: the Types of Drama, Prose and Poetry →
- Poetic devices (structure, imagery, sound devices: rhyme, rhythm, repetition, pun, onomatopoeia; diction, persona)Rhyme, Rhythm and Meter →Poetic Devices: Imagery, Alliteration, Symbolism →
- Prescribed African poems: thematic preoccupation, devices, style and socio-political relevancePrescribed Poems and Literary Principles →
- Prescribed non-African poems: thematic preoccupation, devices, style and socio-political relevancePrescribed Poems and Literary Principles →
- Figures of speech (metaphor, simile, personification, hyperbole, irony, oxymoron, paradox, apostrophe, synecdoche, metonymy)Figures of Speech: Simile, Metaphor and Personification →
- Literary terms (foreshadowing, suspense, symbolism, satire, protagonist and antagonist, monologue, stream of consciousness, climax, denouement)Plot Structure in Drama: Exposition, Conflict, Climax, Resolution →
- Literary principles (direct imitation in drama, versification in drama and poetry, narration of experience, aesthetic value)Prescribed Poems and Literary Principles →
- Literary appreciation: unseen drama extractAnalysing an Unseen Prose Extract →
- Literary appreciation: unseen prose passageAnalysing an Unseen Prose Extract →Analysing an Unseen Poem →
- Literary appreciation: unseen poemAnalysing an Unseen Poem →
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