If you are an Arabic student preparing to take the 2024 JAMB exam, then you should have the updated JAMB Syllabus for Arabic this year. Having this will give you an edge/advantage in the coming exam as it will serve as a guide to your study.
It’s not enough to just study, you need to study the right materials and the right topics for the said subject; in this case, Arabic.
The JAMB Arabic syllabus also contains objectives for each topic mentioned. These objectives are what you must know for every topic you study.
With that being said, let’s get to it.
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JAMB Syllabus for Arabic Exam 2024/2025
Comprehension
Candidates should be able to do the following things:
- Use appropriate words or phrases for specific thought
- Deduce the lesson in the passage
- Determine the main theme of the passage
- Give an appropriate title of a passage
- Interpret the meanings of particular words.
Arabic Literature
Candidates should be able to do the following things:
- Identify pre-Islamic poetic traditions and conventions.
- Identify and analyze the style of figurative expressions contained in a given Islamic literature.
- Describe the aesthetic features in literary texts and assess their modern cultural values.
- Evaluate areas of successful use of Arabic as a medium of West African novels and drama, analyze their contents, and describe their major characteristics and plots.
Composition
Candidates should be able to do the following things:
- Use appropriate words for specific thoughts.
- Use correct idiomatic expressions in Arabic.
- Communicate effectively in Arabic.
- Express ideas clearly in Arabic v. Demonstrate the use of common Arabic idioms and proverbs.
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Grammar
Candidates should be able to do the following things:
- Identify the various forms of demonstrative and relative pronouns.
- Compare gender markers in Arabic.
- Identify the three basic characteristics of Arabic nouns.
- Differentiate between singular and dual forms of nouns.
- Construct plural forms of singular nouns.
- Identify construct phrases and their usages.
- Differentiate between separable and inseparable pronouns.
- Detect correct usage of adjectives, conjunctions, and the permutative in Arabic sentences.
- Apply the correct preposition in a given sentence.
- Differentiate between transitive and intransitive verbs and use them in sentences.
- Detect the perfect verbs and their forms.
- Detect the imperfect verbs and their grammatical words in sentences.
- Detect the imperative verbs and their forms.
- Identify the kinds of modifiers and apply them in Arabic usage.
- Differentiate between trilateral and derived verbs.
- Identify the types of derivatives.
- Apply the rules governing conditional sentences, detect them in sentences, construct them, and differentiate them in normal sentences.
- Recognize and count Arabic numerals from 1 to 3000 and identify the intricacies involved in their usage.
- Distinguish between active and passive voice and apply them in sentences.
- Identify different types of adverbial clauses, the exempted, specification, and the vocative as well as to detect and use them in standard Arabic.
Translation
Candidates should be able to do the following things:
- Use an appropriate Arabic word or phrase to convey the meaning of an English word or phrase.
- Determine an appropriate English word or phrase for an Arabic statement.
- Interpret idiomatic expressions in both Arabic and English.
- Transfer ideas expressed in Arabic to English and vice versa.
- Communicate effectively in Arabic and English.
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JAMB Recommended Textbookds for Arabic Exam
COMPREHENSION, COMPOSITION AND TRANSLATION
- بشير أحمد محيي الدين و المرضي مختار المرضي: المطالعة الواضحة. كنو: شركة طن لامى و أبنائه.
- سيد حمرة مالك: الإنشاء العربى المتوسط (للمدارس الثانوية) إبادن مطبعة الجامعة ب. ل. س. 2005م.
- عبد الفتاح صبرى و علي عمر بك: القراءة الرشيدة. الجزء 1 – 4 القاهرة: دار المعارف.
- عبد الله الطيب: سمير التلاميذ الجزء 1 – 2 الخرطوم: مكتب النشر.
- غرب ط. زاريا (1999م): كيف تكتب الإنشاء: كنو مطبعة جامعة بايرو.
- محمد الأول أبوبكر و الآخرون: العربية الميسرة الجديدة للمرحلة الثانوية. إبادن: دار سبكترم للطباعة و النشر.
- محمد بديع شريف و سليم حكيم و الحاج حسين آدمو: العربية الجديدة فى نيجيريا. الكتاب 1 – 3 إكيجا: لونغمان.
- Adekilekun, A. L. A.: Learning Arabic Language, Ilorin.
- Balogun, I. A. B. and Oseni Z. I. (1982) A Modern Arabic Course Book 1 Lagos: Islamic Publications Bureau.
- Haywood, J. A. and Nahmad, H. M. (1965), A New Arabic Grammar of the Written Language, London: Lund Humphries.
- Malik, S. H. A. (1982) A Guide to Arabic Composition, Books I & II, Lagos I.P.B.
- Arabic newspapers, magazines, and journals.
GRAMMAR
- على الجارم و مصطفى أمين: النحو الواضح لمدارس المرحلة الأولية. الجرء 1 – 3. القاهرة: دار المعارف.
- محمد أجروم الصنهاجى: متن الأجرومية. القاهرة.
- محمد محيي الدين عبد الحميد: التحفة السنية بشرح المقدمة الأجرومية. بيروت: دار الفكر.
- Haywood, J.A and Nahmad, H.M (1965), A New Arabic Grammar of the Written Language, London: Lund Humphries.
ARABIC LITERATURE
- زكريا حسين: المأدبة الأدبية للطلاب العربية في إفريقيا أوتثى: دار النور 2004م NECO/WAEC
- زكريا حسين: الطبقة العليا: دار النور أوتثى 2006م NECO/WAEC
- مصطفى لطفي المنفلوطي: العبرات بيروت والقاهرة (2004) WAEC/NECO
- جميل عبد الله الكنوي: ادفع بالتي هي أحسن مكتبة الحكمة الإسلامية كنو (2013) NECO/WAEC
- أحمد الاسكندري والآخرون: المفصل في تاريخ الأدب العربي NECO/WAEC
TRANSLITERATION OF THE ABOVE BOOKS
- ZAKARIYAU I. OSENI: AL-MA’DUBAT AL-ADABIYYAH.
- ZAKARIYAU I. OSENI: AL-TABAQATAL-ULYA (THE UPPER CLASS)
- MUSTAPHA LUTFI AL-MANFALUTI: AL-ABARAT.
- JAMIL ABDULLAHI ALKANAWI: IDFA’A BIL LATI HIYA AHSAN.
- AHMAD AL-ASKANDARI WAL AKHARUN: ALMUFASSAL FI TARIKH AL-ADABUL ARABI.
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In Summary
There you have it, the updated JAMB Syllabus for Arabic Exam 2024, and the recommended textbooks you should read to help you pass the exam.
This JAMB Syllabus for Arabic Exam is very important because, without it, you will not know where to concentrate while studying for your exam.
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