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Use of English

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Reading passages with questions on main ideas, inferences and summary.

Main Idea and Theme
HIGH
Identifying the central message of a passage.
Objectives:
Candidates should be able to identify main ideas, themes, and the writer's purpose.
Inference and Interpretation
HIGH
Drawing conclusions not explicitly stated.
Objectives:
Candidates should be able to make logical inferences from given passages.
Summary Writing
HIGH
Condensing passages into concise form.
Objectives:
Candidates should be able to summarise passages in a specified number of sentences.

Vocabulary, synonyms, antonyms, grammar and sentence construction.

Synonyms and Antonyms
HIGH
Words with similar or opposite meanings.
Objectives:
Candidates should be able to identify words closest in meaning or opposite in meaning.
Idioms and Figures of Speech
HIGH
Common idioms, metaphors, similes.
Objectives:
Candidates should be able to interpret idioms and identify figures of speech.
Concord and Grammar
MEDIUM
Subject-verb agreement.
Objectives:
Candidates should be able to apply rules of concord correctly.
Tenses and Aspects
MEDIUM
Simple, continuous, perfect and perfect continuous.
Objectives:
Candidates should be able to use tenses appropriately.

Vowels, consonants, stress, rhythm and intonation.

Vowel Sounds
MEDIUM
Monophthongs and diphthongs.
Objectives:
Candidates should be able to identify vowel sounds in words.
Consonant Sounds
MEDIUM
Voiced and voiceless consonants.
Objectives:
Candidates should be able to distinguish consonant sounds.
Stress and Intonation
MEDIUM
Word stress, sentence stress, and intonation patterns.
Objectives:
Candidates should be able to mark stress patterns.

Essay writing, letter writing and other composition forms.

Formal Letter
HIGH
Official and business letters.
Objectives:
Candidates should be able to write formal letters with correct format.
Informal Letter
HIGH
Personal letters to friends and relatives.
Objectives:
Candidates should be able to write informal letters correctly.
Argumentative Essay
HIGH
Presenting balanced arguments.
Objectives:
Candidates should be able to write balanced argumentative essays.
Narrative Essay
MEDIUM
Storytelling with clear sequence.
Objectives:
Candidates should be able to narrate events in chronological order.
Subject Overview

Compulsory for all UTME candidates. Tests comprehension, lexis, structure, and essay writing.

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