ALL ABOUT WAEC LITERATURE

LITERATURE-IN-ENGLISH EXAMINATION SCHEME

There will be three papers – Papers 1, 2 and 3.

Papers 1 and 2 will be combined in a 1 hour 15 minutes composite paper and will be taken at one sitting

Paper 1 will be a multiple choice objective test. It will
contain fifty questions distributed as follows:

(a) Twenty questions on General Knowledge of
Literature;
(b) Five questions on an unseen prose passage;
(c) Five questions on an unseen poem;
(d) Twenty context questions on the prescribed
Shakespearean text.

Candidates will be required to answer all the questions within 1 hour for 50 marks.

Paper 2 will be an essay test with two sections,
Sections A and B. Section A will be on African Prose
and Section B on Non African Prose.

Two essay questions will be set on each of the novels
prescribed for study. Candidates shall be required to
answer one question only from each section within 1
hour 15 minutes for 50 marks.

Paper 3 will be on the Drama and Poetry components
of the syllabus. It will be put into four sections,
Sections A, B. C and D as follows:
Section A: African Drama
Section B: Non-African Drama
Section C: African Poetry
Section D: Non-African Poetry

There shall be two questions on each of the prescribed texts for each section Candidates shall be required to answer one question
from each of the sections, making a total of four
questions. The paper will take 2 hours 30 minutes to
complete and will carry 50 marks.

Note:
(i) The Unseen Prose passage for Paper 1 shall be
about 120 – 150 words long.
(ii) Only context questions shall be set on the
Shakespearean text. The context questions will test
such items as theme, characterization, style and
setting in the Shakespearean text.
(iii) No essay question shall be set on the
Shakespearean text.