36-Week WAEC Revision Programme — Civic Education
September to the May WAEC sitting. SS3 is not a year of new material so much as a year of pressure on material already met, so this is not a course to work through from the beginning — it is a testing programme. Each week you answer cold, work the ones you got wrong, and have the AI explain why you got them wrong. Anything you turn out never to have been taught, you learn there and then, and meet again three weeks later.
A week is one block of the syllabus and the prompts that cover it. You are not meant to do all of them: answer the questions first, and let what you get wrong decide which of the rest you need. Fifteen or twenty minutes a subject is a real week's work — nine subjects do not fit any other way.
Every week, in this order
Start with the questions, not the explanation. The first two steps are in every week; a purpose-written mistake or pitfalls prompt appears in about half of them, and where it does not, your own wrong answers are the material for step three.
- 1. Retrieve — Answer cold, with nothing in front of you. Wrong answers are the point — they show you where the week's work is.
- 2. Drill — Work the ones you missed properly, showing every step, so you and the AI can both see where it went wrong.
- 3. Explain my error — Ask why your answer was wrong, not just what the right one is. Where the week offers a Spot My Mistake or WAEC Pitfalls prompt, use it.
- 4. Teach me — Only if the error turns out to be something you were never taught. Then come back and retrieve it again.
Values and Citizenship
↑ Jump to week- Week 1
- Quiz: The types of values: moral, social, religious and cultural
- WAEC prep: Why a society needs values its members hold in common
- Spot my mistake: The difference between a value and an attitude
- Let me explain: Honesty, integrity and contentment as personal values
- Teach me: What values are, and where a society gets them from
- Week 2
- Quiz: The components that make up citizenship education
- WAEC prep: The importance of citizenship education to a young democracy
- Practice set: The place of citizenship education in the school curriculum
- Spot my mistake: Treating citizenship education as a subject about obeying government rather than about informed participation
- Let me explain: How citizenship education builds national consciousness
- Teach me: What citizenship education sets out to achieve
- Week 3
- Week 4
- Quiz: The factors that promote national unity
- WAEC prep: The role national symbols play in building unity
- Practice set: Programmes such as the NYSC and the Unity Schools
- Spot my mistake: Treating nationalism and ethnic loyalty as the same attachment
- Let me explain: The factors that threaten national unity in Nigeria
- Teach me: What nationalism means and the ways it is expressed
Revisit from three weeks ago - Week 5
- Quiz: Civil and political rights
- WAEC prep: Collective or solidarity rights
- Practice set: How human rights are protected in Nigeria
- Spot my mistake: Assuming a human right is something government grants and may therefore withdraw at will
- Let me explain: Economic, social and cultural rights
- Teach me: What makes a right a human right
Revisit from three weeks ago
Family Life and Relationships
↑ Jump to week- Week 9
- Quiz: The rules governing pedestrians and drivers
- WAEC prep: The functions of the Federal Road Safety Corps
- Practice set: Measures for reducing road traffic accidents
- Spot my mistake: Assuming a pedestrian always has right of way wherever they choose to cross
- Let me explain: The causes of road accidents in Nigeria
- Teach me: The common traffic signs and what each one means
Revisit from three weeks ago - Week 10
- Quiz: The factors that promote good inter-communal relations
- Quiz: The reasons students are drawn into cult groups
- WAEC prep: The effects of poor inter-communal relationships
- WAEC prep: The effects of cultism on schools and on communities
- Practice set: How a student can resist recruitment
- Spot my mistake: Tolerance, and where it shades into indifference
- Spot my mistake: Treating a campus cult as a harmless students' social club
- Let me explain: The causes of inter-communal conflict
- Let me explain: The activities cult groups engage in
- Teach me: What makes an interpersonal relationship a healthy one
- Teach me: What a cult is, and how cultism took root in Nigerian schools
Revisit from three weeks ago
Cultism, Drugs, Trafficking and Health
↑ Jump to week- Week 11
- Quiz: The social consequences for families and communities
- WAEC prep: Government measures against cultism
- Practice set: The role of parents and peer groups in prevention
- Spot my mistake: Assuming a student who only attended an initiation and committed no violence has broken no law
- Let me explain: The part school authorities play in prevention
- Teach me: The legal consequences of belonging to a cult
Revisit from three weeks ago - Week 12
- Quiz: The reasons young people turn to drugs
- Quiz: The methods traffickers use to recruit their victims
- WAEC prep: The social and economic effects of drug abuse
- WAEC prep: The effects of trafficking on victims and on the nation
- Practice set: How a young person can recognise a trafficking offer
- Spot my mistake: Confusing drug use, drug misuse and drug abuse
- Spot my mistake: Assuming trafficking requires a victim to be taken across an international border
- Let me explain: The effects of drug abuse on health and on behaviour
- Let me explain: The routes and destinations common to West African trafficking
- Teach me: What drug abuse means and which drugs are commonly abused
- Teach me: What human trafficking is and the forms it takes
Revisit from three weeks ago - Week 13
- Quiz: The ways HIV infection can be prevented
- WAEC prep: Care and support for people living with HIV
- Practice set: Voluntary counselling and testing
- Spot my mistake: Assuming HIV can be passed on by sharing food, by a handshake or by a mosquito bite
- Let me explain: The effects of HIV and AIDS on the individual and the family
- Teach me: How HIV is transmitted, and how it is not
Revisit from three weeks ago - Week 14
- Quiz: The areas in which young people can be empowered
- Quiz: The functions of the executive arm
- WAEC prep: Government youth empowerment programmes in Nigeria
- WAEC prep: The functions of the judiciary
- Practice set: How the three arms check one another
- Spot my mistake: Confusing empowerment with merely having a job
- Spot my mistake: Assuming the legislature answers to the executive because the president assents to bills
- Let me explain: Why empowerment matters to national development
- Let me explain: The functions of the legislature
- Teach me: What youth empowerment means
- Teach me: The three arms of government and the separate work each does
Revisit from three weeks ago
Government, Democracy and the Constitution
↑ Jump to week- Week 15
- Quiz: Direct democracy and indirect democracy
- WAEC prep: The merits and demerits of democracy
- Practice set: The conditions democracy needs in order to survive
- Spot my mistake: Treating any government that holds an election as automatically democratic
- Let me explain: The features that mark a government as democratic
- Teach me: What democracy means, and where the idea came from
Revisit from three weeks ago - Week 16
- Quiz: Free and fair elections as a pillar of democracy
- Quiz: The constitutions Nigeria has operated since independence
- WAEC prep: The problems facing democracy in developing states
- WAEC prep: How the Nigerian Constitution is amended
- Practice set: The supremacy of the Constitution over every other law
- Spot my mistake: Assuming that holding elections alone makes a state democratic
- Spot my mistake: Assuming an Act of the National Assembly overrides the Constitution because it is more recent
- Let me explain: An independent judiciary and a free press as pillars
- Let me explain: Fundamental human rights under Chapter Four
- Teach me: The pillars on which democracy rests
- Teach me: What the Nigerian Constitution contains
Revisit from three weeks ago - Week 17
- Quiz: Equality before the law
- WAEC prep: The obstacles to the rule of law in Nigeria
- Practice set: How ordinary citizens benefit when the rule of law holds
- Spot my mistake: Assuming the rule of law means government may do anything it has passed a law to permit
- Let me explain: An independent judiciary as a condition of the rule of law
- Teach me: What the rule of law requires of a government
Revisit from three weeks ago
Participation, Civil Society and Rights
↑ Jump to week- Week 18
- Quiz: The forms political apathy takes
- Quiz: The meaning and forms of popular participation
- WAEC prep: The effects of apathy on the quality of governance
- WAEC prep: The public service and the work it carries out
- Practice set: How civil society holds the public service to account
- Spot my mistake: Apathy set against a deliberate protest abstention
- Spot my mistake: Treating a civil society organisation as an arm of government because it serves the public
- Let me explain: Why citizens become politically apathetic
- Let me explain: The relationship between civil society and government
- Teach me: What political apathy means and how it shows itself
- Teach me: What civil society organisations are
Revisit from three weeks ago - Week 19
- Quiz: Freedom of association and of assembly
- WAEC prep: Freedom of movement and the right to personal liberty
- Practice set: The right to life and freedom from torture
- Spot my mistake: Assuming freedom of expression protects a statement that incites violence against a group
- Let me explain: Freedom of thought, conscience and religion
- Teach me: Freedom of expression under the UDHR
Revisit from three weeks ago - Week 20
- Quiz: The National Human Rights Commission and its work
- WAEC prep: The Public Complaints Commission and the ombudsman idea
- Spot my mistake: The state as both protector and violator of rights
- Let me explain: Legislation as a means of protecting rights
- Teach me: The courts as protectors of human rights
Revisit from three weeks ago
Civic Problems, Conflict and Cultism
↑ Jump to week- Week 21
- Quiz: Corruption as a civic problem
- WAEC prep: Terrorism and insecurity as world civic problems
- Practice set: The role of international bodies in solving civic problems
- Spot my mistake: Treating corruption as the fault of the person who receives a bribe and not of the one who offers it
- Let me explain: Environmental degradation and its civic dimension
- Teach me: The civic problems common in Nigerian communities
Revisit from three weeks ago - Week 22
- Quiz: Negotiation as a conflict management skill
- WAEC prep: Dialogue, compromise and collaboration
- Practice set: Applying conflict management skills in a school setting
- Spot my mistake: Treating a mediator as a judge who decides which party is right
- Let me explain: Mediation, and the role a third party plays
- Teach me: The causes of interpersonal conflict
Revisit from three weeks ago - Week 23
- Quiz: Traditional methods of resolving communal disputes
- Quiz: The symbols, codes and initiation rites cults use
- WAEC prep: Government machinery for resolving communal conflict
- WAEC prep: The warning signs that a student has joined a cult
- Practice set: Reporting cult activity safely
- Spot my mistake: The difference between resolving a conflict and suppressing it
- Spot my mistake: Assuming a student can quietly leave a cult once initiated and needs no help to do so
- Let me explain: The role of elders and community leaders in peace-building
- Let me explain: How cult groups go about recruiting in schools
- Teach me: The common causes of inter-communal conflict in Nigeria
- Teach me: How cult groups identify themselves to one another
Revisit from three weeks ago - Week 24
- Quiz: NAFDAC and the regulation of drugs
- WAEC prep: The challenges facing drug control agencies in Nigeria
- Practice set: Rehabilitation services available to drug users
- Spot my mistake: Assuming NAFDAC is the agency that arrests people for dealing in hard drugs
- Let me explain: How these agencies co-operate with international bodies
- Teach me: The NDLEA and its statutory functions
Revisit from three weeks ago - Week 25
- Quiz: The behavioural signs of addiction
- Quiz: Ignorance and false promises as causes
- WAEC prep: The stages through which addiction develops
- WAEC prep: The economic and reputational effects on the nation
- Practice set: Community strategies for preventing trafficking
- Spot my mistake: Mistaking ordinary adolescent behaviour for addiction
- Spot my mistake: Assuming a victim who agreed to travel cannot be counted as trafficked
- Let me explain: Tolerance, dependence and withdrawal
- Let me explain: The effects of trafficking on a victim's health and mind
- Teach me: The physical signs of drug addiction
- Teach me: Poverty and unemployment as causes of trafficking
Revisit from three weeks ago
Drug Control, Trafficking and Empowerment
↑ Jump to week- Week 26
- Quiz: The laws Nigeria has enacted against trafficking
- WAEC prep: The challenges facing anti-trafficking enforcement
- Practice set: Rehabilitation and reintegration of rescued victims
- Spot my mistake: Assuming NAPTIP prosecutes rescued victims for leaving the country irregularly
- Let me explain: International co-operation against trafficking
- Teach me: NAPTIP and the functions it performs
Revisit from three weeks ago - Week 27
- Quiz: The causes of stigma and discrimination
- Quiz: Entrepreneurial skills and self-employment
- WAEC prep: The rights of people living with HIV
- WAEC prep: Leadership and life skills in youth development
- Practice set: Turning a learned skill into a small business
- Spot my mistake: The myths about transmission that keep stigma alive
- Spot my mistake: Assuming a vocational skill is only for the young person who fails to gain admission
- Let me explain: The effect of stigma on testing and on treatment
- Let me explain: ICT skills and the opportunities they open up
- Teach me: What stigma is, and how it shows in the treatment of people living with HIV
- Teach me: Vocational skills and how they empower young people
Revisit from three weeks ago
Democracy, Governance and Participation
↑ Jump to week- Week 28
- Quiz: The state tier and what it controls
- WAEC prep: How the three tiers share national revenue
- Practice set: The working relationship between the tiers in practice
- Spot my mistake: Treating a local government council as a department of the state ministry
- Let me explain: The local government tier and its functions
- Teach me: The federal tier and the responsibilities it carries
Revisit from three weeks ago - Week 29
- Quiz: Godfatherism as a problem of Nigerian democracy
- Quiz: The functions a constitution performs
- WAEC prep: Weak institutions and their effect on democratic practice
- WAEC prep: Constitutional supremacy and its judicial enforcement
- Practice set: What happens when a constitution is suspended
- Spot my mistake: Blaming democracy itself for the failings of politicians
- Spot my mistake: Treating a constitution as guidance a government may follow at its own discretion
- Let me explain: Electoral violence and vote buying
- Let me explain: The constitution as a limit on governmental power
- Teach me: The pillars supporting democracy in Nigeria
- Teach me: The sources from which a constitution draws
Revisit from three weeks ago - Week 30
- Quiz: Due process and the right to a fair hearing
- WAEC prep: Immunity clauses and their effect on the rule of law
- Practice set: Ways of strengthening the rule of law
- Spot my mistake: Assuming immunity means a serving governor can never be investigated in any way
- Let me explain: The problems that weaken the rule of law in Nigeria
- Teach me: The essential features of the rule of law
Revisit from three weeks ago - Week 31
- Quiz: The indicators by which good governance is judged
- Quiz: Insecurity and electoral violence as causes
- WAEC prep: The link between good governance and development
- WAEC prep: Apathy and the legitimacy of a government
- Practice set: The link between apathy and poor representation
- Spot my mistake: Equating good governance with the provision of amenities alone
- Spot my mistake: Assuming a low turnout costs nothing because the winner is still chosen by those who voted
- Let me explain: Accountability and transparency in governance
- Let me explain: The consequences of apathy for election outcomes
- Teach me: What good governance means
- Teach me: Broken promises and disillusionment as causes of apathy
Revisit from three weeks ago - Week 32
- Quiz: Electoral reform and voter confidence
- WAEC prep: The inclusion of youth and women in politics
- Practice set: Making voting easier and safer
- Spot my mistake: Treating political participation as voting on election day and nothing more
- Let me explain: The role of the media in mobilising participation
- Teach me: Civic education as a means of raising participation
Revisit from three weeks ago
Civil Society, Public Service and Nationhood
↑ Jump to week- Week 33
- Quiz: Modern modes such as voting and party membership
- Quiz: The qualities of an effective civil society organisation
- WAEC prep: Traditional and modern modes compared
- WAEC prep: Examples of civil society organisations in Nigeria
- Practice set: How civil society influences public policy
- Spot my mistake: Assuming that only voting counts as participation
- Spot my mistake: Assuming a civil society organisation may contest elections in its own name
- Let me explain: Online activism and digital participation
- Let me explain: Advocacy and watchdog roles
- Teach me: Traditional modes of civic participation in Nigerian communities
- Teach me: The functions civil society performs in a democracy
Revisit from three weeks ago - Week 34
- Quiz: Donor dependence and the loss of independence
- WAEC prep: Government hostility and restrictions on civil society
- Spot my mistake: Telling a genuine organisation from a political front
- Let me explain: Corruption within civil society organisations
- Teach me: The funding problems facing civil society organisations
Revisit from three weeks ago - Week 35
- Quiz: The principles of neutrality and anonymity
- WAEC prep: Poor funding and low morale in the public service
- Practice set: Political interference in public service appointments
- Spot my mistake: Assuming a serving civil servant may campaign publicly for a political party
- Let me explain: Corruption and red tape in the public service
- Teach me: The functions of the public service
Revisit from three weeks ago - Week 36
- Quiz: The use of ICT in improving service delivery
- Quiz: The agencies that promote national integration
- WAEC prep: Service charters and citizens' feedback
- Practice set: Cutting bureaucracy and speeding up processes
- WAEC prep: The obstacles to national integration in Nigeria
- Spot my mistake: Assuming buying computers alone improves service delivery without changing the process
- Spot my mistake: Confusing national integration with cultural uniformity
- Let me explain: Performance management and reward systems
- Let me explain: Inter-ethnic marriage, the NYSC and unity schools
- Teach me: Training and capacity building in the public service
- Teach me: What national consciousness means
Revisit from three weeks ago