WAEC Typewriting Syllabus

SCOPE OF THE SYLLABUS

Correspondence

Candidates will be tested on the use of pre-printed A4, and A5 headed paper

Letters and memoranda with insets, continuation sheets, subject headings, enclosures, and 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

Manuscript with or without inset matter.

Display work

Headings

• Main, sub-heading, shoulder, paragraph and marginal/side heading.

Paragraphing

• Blocked, indented and hanging paragraphs.

Paragraph numbering

• Arabic, Roman, decimal and alphabetical.

Display Work

• Menu, advertisement, and itineraries.

Meetings and report

• Notice of meetings (with or without agenda). Chairman’s agenda, Minutes and reports.

Business Forms, Cards etc.

Completion of pre-printed forms:

• Application and personal records forms, invoices, order forms, delivery notes, advice notes, invitation cards and postcards.

Tabulation

• Tabulation with ruling, with or without leader dots, chronological and alphabetical arrangements.

Literary Work

• Short plays, poems and articles. Footnotes.

Financial Statement

• A simple statement of accounts

 

 

NOTES ON THE EXAMINATION

Facilities and schedule:

• For the successful implementation of this syllabus, it is recommended that institutions running this course should provide a 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.

• In cases where the number of candidates exceeds the number of typewriters available for the examination, permission will be given, on application to the Council, for the examination to be held in two or three sessions on the same day.

• The center 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.

• Application for such sessions, given 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.

• 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.

• There should be an alternative paper (Alternative B). This paper will be available to schools that 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.

• 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.

• Any satisfactory method of erasure will be allowed, except in the speed and accuracy test, where no corrections will be permitted.

• Dictionaries may also be used in the examination.

SUGGESTED STATIONERY FOR THE EXAMINATION

Stationary - qty

• A4 plain –  9
• 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
• One (1) light blue/green paper
• Carbon papers

SUGGESTED READING LIST

Typewriting For Senior Secondary School by Iris Kerry

Typing For West Africa by Paul Bailey And Emmanuel Odina

Wamsley Commercial Typewriting (West Africa Edition) by Odepidan A F

Universal Typing Realistic Office Assignments by Edith MAckay

Basic Typewriting

Universal Typing Students Book by Edith Mackay

Applied Typing by Drummond And Scattergood

Edith Mackay