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Start with 90 topic groups and 630 learning objectives, then explore the additional topics below. The review bank now contains 1,570 questions across nine launch subjects.
This guide is informed by WAEC examiner resources. It is not a complete or officially approved Liberia syllabus. Check your school’s current syllabus and prescribed texts; regional papers and text lists vary by country and examination year.
The same published subject bank serves both signed-in practice and online/ranked quizzes. New questions await educator review and publication; the number currently available to students may be lower. Both modes select 20 published questions, with one minute per question. Calculation families have up to five versions, with at most one version per test.
Liberian history and geography coverage also draws on archived 2011 curriculum documents. These help identify topics but do not confirm the current examination syllabus.
Mathematics
290 / 1,000 authored questions · 710 still to write
10 new reasoning questions · 36 calculation families (180 versions). Counts include drafts, not just published questions.
Number and approximation7 skills
- Order fractions
- Interpret rounding bounds
- Calculate percentage error
- Convert recurring decimals
- Interpret negative powers
- Use highest common factors
- Compare rates with units
Sets7 skills
- Read set notation
- Find complements
- Recognise subsets
- Count subsets
- Test disjoint sets
- Interpret set difference
- Apply a set identity
Algebra and equations7 skills
- Factor a difference of squares
- Rearrange a formula
- Identify an excluded value
- Solve an absolute-value equation
- Compose functions
- Identify a quadratic turning point
- Simplify algebraic fractions
Sequences7 skills
- Find an arithmetic sum
- Recognise a non-arithmetic sequence
- Interpret a recurrence
- Find a missing geometric term
- Use an nth-term formula
- Reason about infinite sums
- Distinguish linear from quadratic patterns
Financial mathematics7 skills
- Reverse a percentage discount
- Compare successive discounts
- Calculate depreciation
- Calculate commission
- Convert currency
- Compare payment plans
- Calculate tax-inclusive price
Plane geometry7 skills
- Use angles on a straight line
- Use triangle exterior angles
- Apply parallel-line angle rules
- Recognise a cyclic quadrilateral
- Use similarity and length
- Locate a perpendicular bisector
- Recognise rotational symmetry
Mensuration7 skills
- Find trapezium area
- Find a cylinder's curved area
- Use volume conservation
- Convert area units
- Apply area scale factors
- Find composite area
- Use sphere volume ratios
Trigonometry and bearings7 skills
- Choose the correct trigonometric ratio
- Distinguish elevation and depression
- Resolve a journey into components
- Interpret compass bearings
- Use the sine rule
- Identify when cosine rule is useful
- Find a complementary angle
Statistics7 skills
- Find a weighted mean
- Identify a suitable chart
- Interpret cumulative frequency
- Recognise misleading axes
- Interpret standard deviation
- Find a modal class
- Distinguish correlation from cause
Probability7 skills
- Use complementary probability
- Combine independent events
- Recognise mutually exclusive events
- Calculate expected frequency
- Count ordered outcomes
- Distinguish certainty from likelihood
- Use conditional information
Additional topics35 areas
- Linear equations
- Simultaneous equations
- Quadratic equations
- Variation
- Arithmetic progressions
- Geometric progressions
- Interest
- Profit and loss
- Ratio and proportion
- Compound growth
- Coordinate geometry
- Polygons
- Circles and sectors
- Solids
- Rates and journeys
- Units and rates
- Statistical diagrams
- Statistics
- Probability
- Counting
- Matrices
- Functions
- Logarithms
- Modular arithmetic
- Number bases
- Graph interpretation
- Proof and counterexamples
- Measurement bounds
- Inequalities
- Statistical reasoning
- Probability models
- Geometry reasoning
- Algebraic domains
- Vectors
- Sampling
Calculation skills36 families
- Linear equations: linear balance
- Simultaneous equations: simultaneous difference
- Quadratic equations: quadratic product
- Quadratic equations: quadratic discriminant
- Variation: direct proportion
- Variation: joint variation
- Variation: inverse square
- Arithmetic progressions: arithmetic difference
- Geometric progressions: geometric sum
- Interest: simple interest time
- Profit and loss: profit margin
- Ratio and proportion: ratio sharing
- Compound growth: compound growth
- Coordinate geometry: gradient points
- Coordinate geometry: line intercept
- Coordinate geometry: distance points
- Polygons: polygon angle sum
- Circles and sectors: sector area
- Circles and sectors: arc length
- Solids: pyramid volume
- Solids: cylinder capacity
- Solids: cube surface
- Rates and journeys: average speed
- Units and rates: speed conversion
- Statistical diagrams: pie sector
- Statistics: missing mean
- Statistics: combined mean
- Probability: without replacement
- Counting: permutations
- Counting: combinations
- Matrices: matrix determinant
- Matrices: matrix entry
- Functions: function inverse
- Logarithms: log product
- Modular arithmetic: modular sum
- Number bases: binary value
English Language
110 / 1,000 authored questions · 890 still to write
10 new reasoning questions · 0 calculation families (0 versions). Counts include drafts, not just published questions.
Concord7 skills
- Correct an agreement error in a paragraph
- Use agreement with paired subjects
- Apply agreement after neither
- Distinguish indefinite pronouns
- Treat a duration as one amount
- Recognise plural-only nouns
- Agree in a relative clause
Tenses7 skills
- Contrast habitual and temporary activity
- Use present perfect with an unfinished period
- Sequence interrupted actions
- Express a scheduled future event
- Use the future perfect
- Maintain a past narrative
- Distinguish since from for
Articles and prepositions7 skills
- Choose articles by initial sound
- Use definite reference
- Recognise zero article
- Select dependent prepositions
- Distinguish movement from position
- Use time prepositions
- Avoid unnecessary prepositions
Lexis and idioms7 skills
- Infer vocabulary from context
- Choose an antonym in context
- Interpret an idiom
- Distinguish near synonyms
- Use natural collocations
- Interpret a phrasal verb
- Identify register
Sentence structure7 skills
- Distinguish subordinate clause functions
- Recognise a noun clause
- Recognise a compound sentence
- Resolve a misplaced modifier
- Combine contrasting ideas
- Place a restrictive relative clause
- Use inversion after a negative opener
Punctuation7 skills
- Punctuate direct speech
- Mark plural possession
- Use a colon before a list
- Repair a comma splice
- Distinguish its and it is
- Punctuate a nonessential phrase
- Use a hyphen to prevent ambiguity
Comprehension and inference7 skills
- Distinguish inference from certainty
- Identify a writer's purpose
- Track pronoun reference
- Interpret tone from wording
- Separate fact and opinion
- Recognise evidence limits
- Identify a central contrast
Summary skills7 skills
- Select a summary's main point
- Remove examples while retaining meaning
- Preserve a qualification
- Avoid introducing unsupported claims
- Combine overlapping points
- Respect a specified focus
- Paraphrase without changing relationships
Formal writing7 skills
- Match salutation and closing
- Write an informative subject line
- Present a courteous complaint
- Organise a report objectively
- Make a specific request
- Support a proposal with reasons
- Maintain appropriate register in a conclusion
Speech sounds7 skills
- Identify a silent consonant
- Distinguish voiced consonants
- Recognise a minimal pair
- Count syllables
- Locate primary stress
- Interpret contrastive stress
- Recognise a diphthong
Additional topics10 areas
- Report writing
- Summary skills
- Pronoun reference
- Parallel structure
- Modifier placement
- Reading inference
- Formal register
- Concession
- Punctuation and meaning
- Word choice
Biology
150 / 1,000 authored questions · 850 still to write
10 new reasoning questions · 8 calculation families (40 versions). Counts include drafts, not just published questions.
Cells and organisation7 skills
- Relate organelles to secretion
- Interpret magnification
- Distinguish prokaryotic cells
- Order biological organisation
- Relate shape to function
- Identify selective permeability
- Distinguish tissue and organ
Classification7 skills
- Use binomial naming
- Recognise insect features
- Distinguish vertebrate classes
- Use a dichotomous key
- Compare plant groups
- Recognise fungal nutrition
- Distinguish viruses from cells
Nutrition7 skills
- Identify a food-test result
- Interpret a protein test
- Distinguish assimilation from absorption
- Explain balanced diets
- Relate deficiency to function
- Interpret limiting factors
- Explain mineral uptake
Transport and respiration7 skills
- Explain double circulation
- Relate capillaries to exchange
- Compare aerobic and anaerobic release
- Distinguish breathing from respiration
- Interpret exercise responses
- Explain stomatal closure
- Explain cohesion in xylem
Excretion and homeostasis7 skills
- Identify nephron filtration
- Distinguish urea production and removal
- Explain sweating feedback
- Identify hormonal coordination
- Distinguish sensory and motor neurones
- Explain pupil constriction
- Relate ADH to water balance
Reproduction7 skills
- Identify seed dispersal adaptation
- Distinguish fertilisation from implantation
- Explain placental exchange
- Identify germination requirements
- Compare sexual and asexual reproduction
- Distinguish self and cross pollination
- Identify ovule fate
Genetics7 skills
- Interpret a test cross
- Distinguish genotype and phenotype
- Use incomplete dominance
- Predict ABO inheritance
- Identify mutation
- Distinguish continuous variation
- Explain chromosome pairing
Ecology7 skills
- Distinguish habitat and niche
- Identify mutualism
- Explain competition
- Interpret carrying capacity
- Trace nitrogen cycling
- Explain eutrophication
- Interpret ecological pyramids
Adaptation and evolution7 skills
- Distinguish adaptation from intention
- Explain isolation and speciation
- Distinguish homologous structures
- Use fossil evidence cautiously
- Explain selective breeding
- Recognise environmental effects
- Distinguish survival from fitness
Practical investigations7 skills
- Choose an independent variable
- Choose replication
- Use random allocation
- Interpret a control result
- Distinguish correlation from mechanism
- Report uncertainty honestly
- Choose ethical field sampling
Additional topics17 areas
- Microscopy calculations
- Ecological sampling calculations
- Practical biology calculations
- Ecology calculations
- Respiration calculations
- Transport calculations
- Inheritance calculations
- Experimental controls
- Classification evidence
- Nutrient testing
- Inheritance and evidence
- Ecological sampling
- Transpiration investigation
- Plant reproduction
- Food preservation
- Gas exchange
- Conservation decisions
Calculation skills8 families
- Microscopy calculations: magnification conversion
- Ecological sampling calculations: quadrat estimate
- Ecological sampling calculations: mark recapture
- Practical biology calculations: germination rate
- Ecology calculations: energy transfer
- Respiration calculations: breathing volume
- Transport calculations: cardiac output
- Inheritance calculations: genetic expectation
Chemistry
210 / 1,000 authored questions · 790 still to write
10 new reasoning questions · 20 calculation families (100 versions). Counts include drafts, not just published questions.
Atomic structure7 skills
- Count subatomic particles
- Interpret electron shells
- Interpret successive ionisation energies
- Calculate relative atomic mass
- Identify nuclear charge
- Interpret isoelectronic species
- Distinguish mass number from relative mass
Bonding and periodicity7 skills
- Predict ionic bonding
- Interpret covalent bonds
- Explain metallic conduction
- Predict group similarities
- Interpret noble-gas stability
- Compare molecular and giant structures
- Predict period position
Moles and stoichiometry7 skills
- Balance combustion equations
- Interpret a limiting reactant
- Find an empirical formula
- Distinguish empirical and molecular formulae
- Calculate percentage composition
- Convert solution volume units
- Interpret Avogadro's constant
Acids bases and salts7 skills
- Distinguish acid strength from concentration
- Interpret the pH scale
- Choose a salt preparation method
- Recognise neutralisation products
- Distinguish alkalis and bases
- Choose an indicator observation
- Recognise an amphoteric oxide
Redox and electrolysis7 skills
- Assign oxidation numbers
- Identify a reducing agent
- Locate reduction in electrolysis
- Predict molten-salt products
- Explain electrolyte conduction
- Explain sacrificial protection
- Distinguish rust requirements
Rates and equilibrium7 skills
- Interpret collision theory
- Explain a catalyst's role
- Interpret equilibrium pressure changes
- Distinguish equilibrium from equal concentrations
- Explain equilibrium removal of a product
- Read a rate curve
- Control concentration experiments
Energetics7 skills
- Estimate reaction enthalpy from bonds
- Distinguish bond breaking and forming
- Interpret a reaction profile
- Apply calorimetry assumptions
- Use Hess's law
- Compare fuels by a fair basis
- Interpret endothermic cooling
Organic chemistry7 skills
- Identify an alkane formula
- Identify carboxylic acids
- Recognise ester formation
- Explain cracking
- Recognise addition polymerisation
- Identify structural isomerism
- Distinguish complete combustion
Separation and identification7 skills
- Explain the condenser in distillation
- Interpret chromatography
- Identify carbon dioxide
- Identify oxygen
- Identify hydrogen
- Separate dissolved solids carefully
- Distinguish physical and chemical changes
Experimental measurements7 skills
- Read liquid menisci
- Choose accurate volume equipment
- Recognise a fair comparison
- Interpret repeat readings
- Identify a safety reason
- Distinguish observations and conclusions
- Use a blank experiment
Additional topics23 areas
- Chemical formulae
- Amount of substance
- Gas quantities
- Solutions
- Volumetric analysis
- Stoichiometry
- Combustion stoichiometry
- Acidity
- Electrolysis
- Reaction energetics
- Chromatography
- Reaction rates
- Hydrated salts
- Titration technique
- Experimental precision
- Equilibrium reasoning
- Catalysis
- Electrolytes
- Organic identification
- Separation choices
- Redox evidence
- Hard water
- Reaction energy diagrams
Calculation skills20 families
- Chemical formulae: molar mass
- Amount of substance: moles solid
- Amount of substance: mass from moles
- Gas quantities: gas volume
- Solutions: concentration moles
- Solutions: dilution
- Volumetric analysis: titration one to one
- Volumetric analysis: titration two to one
- Stoichiometry: percentage yield
- Stoichiometry: percentage purity
- Combustion stoichiometry: oxygen mass
- Stoichiometry: thermal decomposition
- Acidity: ph strong acid
- Electrolysis: electrolysis charge
- Electrolysis: faraday silver
- Reaction energetics: calorimetry
- Reaction energetics: hess sum
- Chromatography: chromatography rf
- Reaction rates: reaction rate
- Hydrated salts: water crystallisation
Physics
250 / 1,000 authored questions · 750 still to write
10 new reasoning questions · 28 calculation families (140 versions). Counts include drafts, not just published questions.
Units and measurement7 skills
- Distinguish scalar and vector quantities
- Read a zero error
- Convert SI prefixes
- Identify significant figures
- Distinguish accuracy and precision
- Choose a measuring instrument
- Use dimensional reasoning
Motion and forces7 skills
- Interpret displacement-time slope
- Use area under a graph
- Apply inertia
- Resolve balanced forces
- Calculate impulse
- Locate a centre of gravity
- Apply moments
Energy and power7 skills
- Recognise zero mechanical work
- Use efficiency
- Distinguish energy and power
- Interpret a force-extension graph
- Compare kinetic energies
- Distinguish renewable sources
- Use mechanical advantage
Fluids7 skills
- Explain atmospheric support
- Apply Pascal's principle
- Apply relative density to flotation
- Compare liquid pressure
- Interpret apparent weight
- Explain a drinking straw
- Reason about loaded ships
Heat7 skills
- Distinguish heat and temperature
- Explain thermal expansion gaps
- Identify convection
- Identify radiation
- Explain evaporative cooling
- Distinguish boiling from evaporation
- Use Kelvin temperature
Waves and sound7 skills
- Distinguish longitudinal waves
- Relate pitch to frequency
- Relate loudness to amplitude
- Recognise diffraction
- Explain interference cancellation
- Use wave period
- Identify resonance
Optics7 skills
- Use reflection geometry
- Explain apparent depth
- Identify total internal reflection conditions
- Identify a diverging lens
- Correct short sight
- Describe plane-mirror images
- Explain white-light dispersion
Electric circuits7 skills
- Locate an ammeter
- Locate a voltmeter
- Compare series current
- Calculate electric charge
- Use a kilowatt-hour
- Explain earthing
- Interpret resistance-temperature change
Magnetism and induction7 skills
- Identify magnetic field direction
- Strengthen an electromagnet
- Apply Lenz's law
- Distinguish motor and generator
- Explain transformer supply
- Reduce transmission losses
- Compare magnetic materials
Atomic physics7 skills
- Identify alpha composition
- Compare penetrating powers
- Interpret random decay
- Distinguish fission and fusion
- Use isotope notation
- Explain background counts
- Compare ionising ability
Additional topics29 areas
- Kinematics
- Newton laws
- Momentum
- Energy
- Elasticity
- Pressure
- Density
- Fluids
- Thermal physics
- Gas laws
- Waves
- Sound
- Lenses
- Refraction
- Electric circuits
- Electrical energy
- Transformers
- Radioactivity
- Radiation measurements
- Measurement uncertainty
- Motion graphs
- Force pairs
- Thermal experiments
- Wave behaviour
- Optical experiments
- Electrical safety principles
- Circuit measurement
- Radioactivity experiments
- Electromagnetic induction
Calculation skills28 families
- Kinematics: acceleration distance
- Kinematics: stopping time
- Newton laws: resultant force
- Newton laws: friction resultant
- Momentum: momentum collision
- Energy: gravitational energy
- Energy: kinetic energy
- Elasticity: spring constant
- Pressure: pressure area
- Density: density volume
- Fluids: hydrostatic pressure
- Thermal physics: heat capacity
- Thermal physics: latent heat
- Gas laws: boyle volume
- Gas laws: charles volume
- Waves: wave speed
- Sound: echo time
- Lenses: lens power
- Lenses: lens image
- Refraction: refractive index
- Electric circuits: ohm current
- Electric circuits: series resistance
- Electric circuits: parallel equal
- Electrical energy: electrical cost
- Electric circuits: internal resistance
- Transformers: transformer current
- Radioactivity: half life activity
- Radiation measurements: background correction
Practise graph scales, gradients, units and experimental reasoning as well as calculations.
Explore WAEC resources →Economics
190 / 1,000 authored questions · 810 still to write
10 new reasoning questions · 16 calculation families (80 versions). Counts include drafts, not just published questions.
Scarcity and choice7 skills
- Distinguish scarcity from shortage
- Distinguish sunk costs from future choice
- Read an interior production point
- Recognise a frontier shift
- Distinguish positive and normative claims
- Classify a factor reward
- Interpret marginal choice
Demand and supply7 skills
- Distinguish individual and market demand
- Link complementary goods
- Identify a supply determinant
- Interpret excess demand
- Evaluate non-price rationing
- Analyse a binding price floor
- Trace simultaneous shifts
Elasticity7 skills
- Calculate price elasticity using initial values
- Infer inelastic demand from revenue
- Interpret unit elasticity
- Recognise an inferior good
- Interpret cross elasticity
- Explain time and supply response
- Distinguish elasticity from slope
Production and costs7 skills
- Distinguish short run and long run
- Compute average cost
- Find marginal cost from totals
- Interpret a marginal product schedule
- Identify an internal economy of scale
- Distinguish productivity from output
- Recognise diseconomies of scale
Market structures7 skills
- Identify a price taker
- Recognise barriers to entry
- Distinguish monopolistic competition
- Explain oligopolistic interdependence
- Identify price discrimination
- Explain a natural monopoly
- Distinguish profit from revenue
National income7 skills
- Calculate value added
- Distinguish nominal and real output
- Interpret per capita income
- Classify transfer payments
- Identify a leakage
- Interpret the multiplier
- Recognise GDP limitations
Money and banking7 skills
- Identify money's store-of-value role
- Explain the barter problem
- Distinguish bank institutions
- Explain a reserve requirement
- Interpret an open-market purchase
- Distinguish liquidity and profitability
- Interpret real interest approximately
Inflation and employment7 skills
- Distinguish inflation from one price rise
- Identify cost-push inflation
- Identify demand-pull pressure
- Interpret disinflation
- Identify structural unemployment
- Calculate an unemployment rate
- Recognise disguised unemployment
Public finance7 skills
- Distinguish direct and indirect taxes
- Calculate an average tax rate
- Distinguish public debt from deficit
- Identify a public good
- Distinguish private and social costs
- Distinguish capital and recurrent spending
- Apply countercyclical fiscal policy
International trade and development7 skills
- Evaluate specialisation limits
- Distinguish absolute advantage
- Interpret depreciation
- Calculate terms of trade
- Distinguish tariffs and quotas
- Distinguish growth and development
- Explain export diversification
Additional topics20 areas
- Demand and supply calculations
- Elasticity calculations
- Cost calculations
- Revenue and profit
- National income calculations
- Development indicators
- Price indices
- Banking calculations
- International trade calculations
- Tax calculations
- Opportunity cost reasoning
- Market adjustment
- External costs
- Public goods
- Trade specialisation
- Structural unemployment
- Inflation interpretation
- Development measures
- Agricultural marketing
- Export dependence
Calculation skills16 families
- Demand and supply calculations: equilibrium linear
- Demand and supply calculations: equilibrium quantity
- Elasticity calculations: price elasticity
- Elasticity calculations: income elasticity
- Elasticity calculations: cross elasticity
- Cost calculations: total cost
- Cost calculations: average fixed cost
- Revenue and profit: break even
- National income calculations: gdp expenditure
- National income calculations: real gdp
- Development indicators: income per capita
- Price indices: inflation index
- Banking calculations: reserve ratio
- National income calculations: multiplier
- International trade calculations: trade balance
- Tax calculations: specific tax
Geography
150 / 1,000 authored questions · 850 still to write
10 new reasoning questions · 8 calculation families (40 versions). Counts include drafts, not just published questions.
Maps and scale7 skills
- Recover a map scale
- Choose a larger map scale
- Distinguish four- and six-figure references
- Recognise a concave slope profile
- Identify contour crossings at a river
- Use a line scale after resizing
- Distinguish direction from distance
Relief and landforms7 skills
- Explain fold mountains
- Distinguish a plateau
- Explain fault scarps
- Relate resistant rock to relief
- Recognise volcanic cones
- Interpret a drainage divide
- Connect relief and human use
Weather and climate7 skills
- Distinguish weather and climate
- Explain convectional rainfall
- Explain frontal uplift
- Site a thermometer screen
- Calculate daily temperature range
- Explain sea breezes
- Read a climate graph
Rocks and weathering7 skills
- Distinguish weathering and erosion
- Infer cooling rate from crystal size
- Identify metamorphism
- Explain chemical weathering
- Explain biological weathering
- Relate climate to weathering
- Distinguish soil horizons
Rivers and coasts7 skills
- Distinguish river transport modes
- Explain oxbow lake formation
- Explain delta conditions
- Identify hydraulic action
- Evaluate groyne effects
- Sequence coastal erosion features
- Explain floodplain fertility
Population7 skills
- Calculate population density
- Distinguish natural increase
- Interpret migration balance
- Interpret a broad pyramid base
- Identify a migration push factor
- Interpret dependency
- Distinguish census and sample survey
Settlement7 skills
- Identify dispersed settlement
- Distinguish site and situation
- Identify a settlement's situation
- Explain service hierarchies
- Explain urban sprawl
- Identify a commuter settlement
- Explain informal settlement growth
Agriculture7 skills
- Distinguish subsistence and commercial farming
- Explain crop rotation
- Explain terracing
- Identify irrigation risks
- Distinguish intensive farming
- Explain post-harvest losses
- Relate farming to climate
Industry and transport7 skills
- Explain power-oriented industry
- Explain market orientation
- Recognise industrial agglomeration
- Choose transport for bulky freight
- Explain transport bottlenecks
- Distinguish accessibility and distance
- Assess tourism's local impact
Environmental management7 skills
- Distinguish hazard from vulnerability
- Distinguish mitigation and adaptation
- Explain wetland protection
- Apply the waste hierarchy
- Evaluate environmental impact assessments
- Recognise sustainable harvesting
- Use local monitoring evidence
Additional topics15 areas
- Map calculations
- Longitude and local time
- Climate calculations
- Population calculations
- River calculations
- Regional settlement
- Liberian regional study
- Mining and development
- Urbanisation
- River processes
- Weathering interpretation
- Tropical land use
- Population pyramids
- Fieldwork design
- Map interpretation
Calculation skills8 families
- Map calculations: gradient
- Longitude and local time: longitude time
- Climate calculations: rainfall total
- Climate calculations: temperature average
- Population calculations: population growth
- Population calculations: dependency ratio
- River calculations: discharge
- Map calculations: map enlargement
Use Liberia and West Africa regional requirements; country-specific papers differ.
Explore WAEC resources →History
110 / 1,000 authored questions · 890 still to write
10 new reasoning questions · 0 calculation families (0 versions). Counts include drafts, not just published questions.
Historical evidence and chronology7 skills
- Distinguish a source from its later copy
- Use relative archaeological dating
- Recognise anachronism
- Calculate chronological intervals
- Distinguish dates of event and publication
- Evaluate missing records
- Use oral interviews ethically
Precolonial West African societies7 skills
- Distinguish centralised and decentralised authority
- Explain councils of elders
- Interpret age-grade institutions
- Explain succession disputes
- Assess religious and political authority
- Recognise specialised production
- Avoid treating societies as static
Trade and exchange7 skills
- Explain the role of caravans
- Interpret salt and gold exchange
- Distinguish trade routes from political borders
- Explain merchant diasporas
- Assess transport technology
- Interpret market regulation
- Evaluate trade evidence quantitatively
Slavery and abolition7 skills
- Define the Middle Passage
- Distinguish coercion from voluntary migration
- Investigate demographic effects
- Identify enslaved people's agency
- Assess abolition enforcement
- Use survivor accounts critically
- Evaluate economic transition after abolition
European contact7 skills
- Distinguish contact from conquest
- Assess interpreters' roles
- Interpret coastal forts cautiously
- Explain missionary education's varied effects
- Evaluate unequal treaty understandings
- Recognise African diplomatic agency
- Link coastal and inland histories
Colonial rule and resistance7 skills
- Distinguish annexation from occupation
- Analyse colonial taxation
- Interpret colonial railway routes
- Identify labour resistance
- Explain varied responses to colonial expansion
- Distinguish assimilation as an ideal from practice
- Assess resistance beyond its immediate outcome
Nationalism and independence7 skills
- Explain newspapers in nationalist mobilisation
- Analyse trade-union links to nationalism
- Distinguish constitutional negotiation
- Assess coalition-building
- Distinguish independence from economic autonomy
- Study women's political participation
- Compare paths to independence
Liberian history7 skills
- Identify the first Liberian president
- Explain Monrovia's name
- Distinguish colonisation society from national government
- Assess mixed motives in colonisation
- Distinguish recognition from diplomatic representation
- Interpret embassy elevation
- Include indigenous-settler relations
Regional cooperation7 skills
- Distinguish bilateral and multilateral cooperation
- Explain shared infrastructure
- Distinguish organisation from member state
- Assess regional cooperation historically
- Explain collective peace initiatives
- Identify a sovereignty trade-off
- Use founding documents as evidence
Historical interpretation7 skills
- Distinguish motive and consequence
- Avoid hindsight bias
- Support a counterargument
- Distinguish scale of analysis
- Assess historical significance
- Distinguish commemoration from evidence of opinion
- Write a qualified conclusion
Additional topics10 areas
- Historical dating
- African historical sources
- West African trade
- Historical geography
- Swahili coast
- Liberian historiography
- Regional peace efforts
- Historical causation
- Post-conflict reconstruction
- Change and continuity
The WAEC Nigeria portal is a standards reference, not a substitute for the Liberia-specific history syllabus.
Explore WAEC resources →Literature in English
110 / 1,000 authored questions · 890 still to write
10 new reasoning questions · 0 calculation families (0 versions). Counts include drafts, not just published questions.
Prose7 skills
- Distinguish prose from verse
- Identify an epistolary structure
- Explain descriptive detail
- Distinguish scene from summary
- Explain dialogue in prose
- Identify a framed narrative
- Explain pacing through detail
Drama7 skills
- Distinguish aside from dialogue
- Explain a chorus as commentator
- Interpret an entrance
- Explain a prop's function
- Distinguish act and scene
- Interpret dramatic silence
- Explain theatrical lighting
Poetry7 skills
- Distinguish speaker from poet
- Recognise enjambment
- Recognise a caesura
- Interpret an end-stopped line
- Interpret a refrain
- Distinguish free verse
- Interpret a tonal turn
Plot and conflict7 skills
- Identify an inciting incident
- Distinguish suspense from surprise
- Identify a subplot
- Recognise a climax
- Distinguish resolution from happiness
- Explain a flashback's placement
- Identify external conflict
Characterisation7 skills
- Distinguish direct characterisation
- Infer character from a costly choice
- Recognise a dynamic character
- Identify a foil
- Distinguish protagonist from moral hero
- Assess rounded characterisation
- Distinguish motivation from action
Setting7 skills
- Identify social setting
- Explain setting as an obstacle
- Interpret contrasting spaces
- Distinguish atmosphere from location
- Explain a seasonal setting
- Recognise historical setting constraints
- Interpret belonging through place
Narrative perspective7 skills
- Recognise second-person narration
- Interpret shifting focalisation
- Identify objective narration
- Distinguish a witness narrator
- Distinguish author and narrator
- Explain limited viewpoint and suspense
- Interpret retrospective narration
Theme7 skills
- Distinguish theme from subject
- Infer theme from consequences
- Recognise multiple themes
- Connect motif and theme
- Avoid unsupported moral absolutes
- Compare themes across texts
- Use endings to qualify a theme
Literary devices7 skills
- Interpret an extended metaphor
- Identify personification
- Recognise hyperbole
- Recognise assonance
- Recognise apostrophe in poetry
- Interpret situational irony
- Recognise an oxymoron
Unseen passage analysis7 skills
- Infer emotional restraint
- Interpret an image in context
- Identify a change in power
- Interpret understatement
- Analyse sensory contrast
- Infer meaning from an ending
- Select evidence for an interpretation
Additional topics10 areas
- Narrative reliability
- Dramatic tension
- Characterisation
- Poetic imagery
- Structural interpretation
- Conflict and motivation
- Theme and evidence
- Sound and meaning
- Stage directions
- Interpretive evidence
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