Syllabus content and objectives
Official WAEC Hausa outline · Section A: Language (Harshe / Tsarin Sauti da Nahawu)
Content
Reading comprehension, essay writing types, Hausa phonetics/phonology, syllable structures, word formation, word classes, grammatical categories, sentence types, and translation
Objective
Answer comprehension questions on Hausa passages; write 300-word essays (narrative, descriptive, argumentative, letter writing, etc.) in official Hausa orthography; identify Hausa consonants, vowels, diphthongs, syllable structures (CV, CVV, CVC), open/close syllables, and tones (high, low, falling); analyze word roots, affixes, word classes (nouns, verbs, adjectives, ideophones, etc.), tenses/aspects, gender, number, and sentence structures; translate accurately between Hausa and English.
Opens the CBT engine with Hausa past questions and answers.