The West African Examination Council has released the Physics Syllabus that is going to be used as the basis for the examination of students for the West African Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination.
In the preamble of the syllabus, it has been written that “The 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 syllabus contains a practical aspect and explains the rationale as “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.
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