2023 OFFICIAL WAEC SCHOOL PRACTICAL SPECIMENS

2023 WAEC CHEMISTRY PRACTICAL

1. Great care should be taken to ensure that the information given in items 2 and 3 below does not reach the candidates either directly or indirectly before the examination.
2. In addition to the fittings and reagents normally found in a chemistry laboratory, the following apparatus and materials will be required by each candidate:
(a) One burette of 50cm3 capacity;
(b) One pipette, either 20cm3 or 25cm3. (All candidates at one centre must use pipettes of the same volume. These should be clean and free from grease).
(c) The usual apparatus for titration;
(d) The usual apparatus and reagents for qualitative work including the following with all reagents appropriately labeled;
(i) Dilute sodium hydroxide solution;
(ii) Dilute hydrochloric acid;
(iii) Dilute trioxonitrate (V) acid;
(iv) Silver trioxonitrate (V) solution;
(v) Acidified potassium dichromate solution;
(vi) Aqueous ammonia;
(vii) Lime water;
(viii) Red and Blue litmus paper;
(ix) Dilute tetraoxosulphate (VI) acid;
(x) Fehlings solution A & B.
(e) Spatula;
(f) Filtration apparatus;
(g) One beaker;
(h) One boiling tube;
(i) Four test tube;
(j) Methyl orange as indicator;
(k) Glass rod;
(l) Wash bottle containing distilled/deionized water;
(m) Burning splint;
(n) Watch glass;
(o) Bunsen burner/source of heat;
(p) Droppers;
(q) Mathematical table/calculator.
3. Each candidate should be supplied with the following, where ‘n’ is the candidate’s serial number.
(a) 150cm3 of a solution of HCL in a corked flask or bottle labeled ‘An’. These should all be the same containing 8.5cm3 of concentrated HCl per dm³ of solution.
(b) 150cm3 of Na2CO3 .10H2O in a corked flask or bottle labeled ‘Bn’. These should all be the same cointaing 5.0g of the hydrated salt per dm3 of solution.
(c) One spatulaful of glucose in a specimen bottle labeled ‘Cn’. This must be the same for all candidate
(d) One spatulaful of zinc oxide powder in a specimen bottle labeled ‘Dn’. This must be the same for all candidates.
4. In all cases, more materials may be issued if required.
5. The actual concentrations of A and B must be stated on the Supervisor’s Report Form. The candidates will assume that the concentrations are exactly as stated in the question paper.
6. It should be noted that schools are not allowed to amend the information provided on the question paper or substitute any substance/solution for those specified in these instructions.
ARRANGEMENT AND SERIAL NUMBERS OF CANDIDATES
7. The laboratory places should be numbered serially and the candidates should be allotted these places strictly in the order of their index numbers. The number of every specimen supplied to each candidate should be the same as his or her serial number.
8. If a candidate is absent, his or her serial number should not be allotted to another candidate.
9. If the candidates are divided into a number of sets, the serial numbers should be continued through the sets, so that no serial number is repeated.

 

2023 WAEC BIOLOGY SPECIMENS

(3a) Each candidate should be provided with the following groups of specimens

Specimen A – Mature fresh eggs of catfish.
Specimen B – Fresh egg of domestic fowl (raw, with shell intact).
Specimen C – Picture/model/chart of uterus containing a foetus.
Specimen D – Longitudinal section of ovary of Pride of Barbados flower.
Specimen E – Leaf of Pride of Barbados.
Specimen F – Panicum plant/Guinea grass (whole plant).
Specimen G – Cocoyam plant/Caladium plant (whole plant).
Specimen H – Corm of cocoyam.
Specimen J – Dry humus in a beaker.
Specimen K – Moist humus in a beaker.
Specimen L – Ripe orange fruit (whole).
Specimen M – Longitudinal section of coconut fruit.
Specimen N – Longitudinal section of fresh chilli pepper fruit.

NB:
(i) All specimens can be provided as group specimens for five (5) to ten (10) candidates.
(ii) All specimens must carry individual labels (e.g. A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, J, K, L, M, and N).

(3b) It is essential that each candidate should be provided with the following materials:
(i) hand lens/magnifying lens;
(ii) scalpel/razor blade /knife;
(iii) pair of forceps;
(iv) hand gloves;
(v) spatula;
(vi) Petri dish;
(vii) Fehling’s solutions A and B;
(viii) iodine solution.

(4) Report Forms are provided separately on which you are required to:
(a) supply the necessary information about the specimens;
(b) report on any difficulty in the conduct of examination;
(c) report any particular difficulty experienced by any candidate during the conduct of the examination, especially of the examiner would be unable to discover these from the scripts;
(d) carry out and record experimental observations as directed in the Report Form.

(5) You must enclose a completed Report Form in each envelope of scripts.

 

WASSCE 2023 FOOD AND NUTRITION TOPICS
1. Food Preparation

2. Food storage and preservation

3. Art of Entertaining

4. Self Employment

5. Nutrition and Health

6. Beverages

7. Consumer Education

8. Re-chauffe Food and Festive Dishes

 

WASSCE 2023 AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE TOPICS

1. Nitrogen Cycle

2. Crop & Animal Production

3. Ruminant and Non-Ruminant Production

4. Soil ConElectronic

5. Agricultural ecology

6. Farm mechanization

7. Agricultural economics & extension

 

WASSCE 2023 ELECTIVE MATHEMATICS TOPICS
COMPULSORY

1. Correlation & Regression

2. Binary operations

3. Functions & Partial fraction

4. Binomial expansion

5. Logarithms/Indices

6. Polynomial

7. Basic calculus

8. Circle theorem

9. Matrix

10. Sequence and Series

OPTIONAL

Statistics (Probability, combination permutation)

700 Vectors & Mechanism

700 Kinematics

100 Calculus (differentiation & integrate

 

 

WAEC’s confirmed topic areas for 2023 WASSCE candidates
They are as follows:

CORE MATHEMATICS
1. Sets and binary operation

2. Modular arithmetic

3. Statistics & Probability

4. Logarithm and indices

5. Mensuration 1&2

6. Business mathematics [profit loss, depression, ratio]

7. Trigonometry

8. Bearing and vectors

9. Simultaneous equations.

10. Matrix and coordinate geometry (equation of a line)

11. Logic Reasoning

12. Transformation

13. Quadratic graphs, quadratics & functions

14. Series & Sequence

WASSCE 2023 GEOGRAPHY

PHYSICAL/HUMAN/REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY

1. Settlement and population

2. Element of map international & maps

3. Vegetation (agricultural system)

4. The planetary system

5. Element of weather and climate

6. The hydrosphere

6. Statistical maps & Diagrams

7. ECOWAS

*PRACTICAL GEOGRAPHY*

Statistical maps and Diagrams

~Map interpretation
•Map reading & interpretation

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WASSCE 2023 BIOLOGY TOPICS💯☑️
1. Microscopy, Biological drawing

2. Cell 1 & 2 as a unit

3. Biology and industry.

4. Humans and their environment

5. Genetic, variation, and ecology

6. Food and nutrition

7. Ecosystem.

8. Excretion/skeletal/respiration

9. Plant anatomy

10. Transport system

11. Paramecium, tilapia, foul, moses, fern, etc.

 

WASSCE 2023 PHYSICS TOPICS💯☑️
1. Dimensional analysis

2. Properties of matter

3. Motion and forces

4. Electronics (the latter part)

5. Planets and gravitation

6. Current electricity and AC

7. Properties of waves (light)

8. Specific heat capacity

9. Atomic and nuclear physics

 

WASSCE 2023 CHEMISTRY TOPICS💯☑️
1. Structures of the Atom

2. Standard Separation Techniques for Mixtures

3. Periodic chemistry

4. Chemical Bonds

5. Stoichiometry and Chemicals

6. Reactions

7. States of Matter

8. Energy and energy changes acids, Bases, and Salts, Solubility of Substances, Chemical Kinetic and equilibrium Systems.