Syllabus content and objectives
Official JAMB Geography outline · Section III: Human Geography
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Types of economic activities: primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary.
Objective
Identify and differentiate between the types of economic activities.
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Agriculture: types, systems, factors and problems.
Objective
Assess the importance and problems of agriculture as an economic activity.
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Manufacturing industries: types, locational factors, distribution, socioeconomic importance and problems of industrialization in tropical Africa.
Objective
Compare types of manufacturing industries; identify factors of industrial location; examine the socioeconomic importance of manufacturing industries; explain problems of industrialization in tropical Africa.
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Transportation and communication: types and roles in economic development, with particular reference to tropical Africa.
Objective
Differentiate between modes of transportation and communication; assess the economic importance of transportation; explain problems of transportation in tropical Africa.
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World trade: factors and patterns of world trade; major commodities, their origins, routes and destinations.
Objective
Relate factors to patterns of world trade; classify major trade commodities according to origin, routes and destinations.
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Tourism: definition, importance, location, problems and solutions.
Objective
Analyse tourism as an economic activity; identify problems of tourism and possible solutions.
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