36-Week WAEC Revision Programme — Health 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.
Foundations of Health Education
↑ Jump to week- Week 1
- Quiz: Home-based and school-based health education
- Quiz: Mitosis and meiosis compared
- WAEC prep: Workplace health education and what it covers
- WAEC prep: The factors that affect growth and development
- Practice set: The stages of human growth from infancy to adulthood
- Spot my mistake: Confusing health education with medical treatment
- Spot my mistake: Assuming mitosis and meiosis both halve the chromosome number
- Let me explain: Community-based and health-facility-based settings
- Let me explain: How cells differentiate into tissues and organs
- Teach me: What health education is and what it sets out to change
- Teach me: The structure of a cell and the work of its parts
Human Body Systems
↑ Jump to week- Week 2
- Quiz: The functions of the skeletal system
- WAEC prep: The structure and types of muscle
- Practice set: Caring for bones and joints through life
- Spot my mistake: Assuming every joint in the skeleton allows movement
- Let me explain: The types of joint and the movement each allows
- Teach me: The general plan of the human skeleton
- Week 3
- Quiz: Arteries, veins and capillaries compared
- WAEC prep: Blood groups and the rhesus factor
- Practice set: Blood clotting and why it matters
- Spot my mistake: Assuming every artery carries oxygenated blood
- Let me explain: The composition of blood and the work of each part
- Teach me: The structure of the heart and how it pumps
- Week 4
- Quiz: Leukaemia and haemophilia
- WAEC prep: Stroke: its causes, warning signs and prevention
- Practice set: Lifestyle measures that protect the circulatory system
- Spot my mistake: Treating sickle cell trait as the same condition as sickle cell anaemia
- Let me explain: Arteriosclerosis and hypertension
- Teach me: Sickle cell anaemia and its inheritance
Revisit from three weeks ago - Week 5
- Quiz: The enzymes of digestion and what each acts on
- WAEC prep: Diseases of the digestive system and their prevention
- Practice set: The role of the liver and pancreas in digestion
- Spot my mistake: Treating bile as an enzyme that digests fat
- Let me explain: Absorption and assimilation of digested food
- Teach me: The organs of the alimentary canal in order
Revisit from three weeks ago - Week 6
- Quiz: The skin as an excretory organ
- Quiz: The structure and function of a neurone
- WAEC prep: The mechanism of breathing and gaseous exchange
- WAEC prep: The endocrine glands and the hormones they secrete
- Practice set: How nervous and hormonal control differ
- Spot my mistake: Confusing excretion with egestion
- Spot my mistake: Treating hormonal control as faster acting than nervous control
- Let me explain: The structure of the respiratory system
- Let me explain: Voluntary and involuntary actions
- Teach me: The structure of the kidney and how urine is formed
- Teach me: The central and peripheral nervous systems
Revisit from three weeks ago
Personal Health
↑ Jump to week- Week 7
- Quiz: The causes of poor posture
- WAEC prep: Correcting postural defects through exercise
- Practice set: Assessing and improving posture in a school setting
- Spot my mistake: Treating poor posture as a habit with no effect beyond appearance
- Let me explain: The effects of postural defects on health
- Teach me: What correct posture looks like, standing and sitting
Revisit from three weeks ago - Week 8
- Quiz: The structure and types of human teeth
- WAEC prep: The effects of poor personal hygiene
- Practice set: Building a daily personal hygiene routine
- Spot my mistake: Treating harder and longer brushing as the way to prevent tooth decay
- Let me explain: Correct tooth brushing and dental care
- Teach me: Care of the skin, hair, hands and nails
Revisit from three weeks ago - Week 9
- Quiz: Astigmatism and presbyopia
- WAEC prep: Screening procedures for sight and hearing
- Practice set: Protecting sight and hearing in daily life
- Spot my mistake: Assuming myopia and hypermetropia are corrected by the same kind of lens
- Let me explain: Auditory defects and their causes
- Teach me: Myopia and hypermetropia and their correction
Revisit from three weeks ago
Community and School Health
↑ Jump to week- Week 10
- Quiz: Traditional health providers in Nigerian communities
- WAEC prep: Community participation in health promotion
- Practice set: Mapping the health services available in a community
- Spot my mistake: Treating primary health care as the care given in a teaching hospital
- Let me explain: Primary health care and its components
- Teach me: Orthodox community health providers and their work
Revisit from three weeks ago - Week 11
- Quiz: Skill-based health education in schools
- Quiz: Family size and family budgeting
- WAEC prep: School health services and feeding programmes
- WAEC prep: Safe motherhood and its practices
- Practice set: The benefits of family planning to a household
- Spot my mistake: Assuming a school clinic alone makes a health programme
- Spot my mistake: Treating family planning as a means of stopping childbirth altogether
- Let me explain: A healthful school environment and what it requires
- Let me explain: The meaning and methods of family planning
- Teach me: The components of a school health programme
- Teach me: What family health means
Revisit from three weeks ago - Week 12
- Quiz: Caring for the elderly in a Nigerian family
- WAEC prep: Vital statistics: birth rate, mortality rate and morbidity rate
- Practice set: Using vital statistics to judge a community's health
- Spot my mistake: Treating mortality rate and morbidity rate as the same measure
- Let me explain: Grief, bereavement and death education
- Teach me: The physical and social features of ageing
Revisit from three weeks ago - Week 13
- Quiz: Ventilation and lighting in a healthy home
- WAEC prep: The health effects of substandard housing
- Practice set: Assessing a described dwelling against housing standards
- Spot my mistake: Judging a dwelling healthy by the materials it is built from alone
- Let me explain: Sanitation and drainage around a dwelling
- Teach me: The criteria for good housing
Revisit from three weeks ago
Environmental Health
↑ Jump to week- Week 14
- Quiz: Water-borne diseases and their prevention
- Quiz: The diseases vectors transmit
- WAEC prep: Types and sources of pollution and their health effects
- Practice set: Improving water and sanitation in a community
- WAEC prep: Occupational health programmes and workplace hazards
- Spot my mistake: Assuming water that is clear and tasteless is safe to drink
- Spot my mistake: Control methods that create new health risks
- Let me explain: Choosing a disposal method to suit a community's size and setting
- Let me explain: Methods of controlling pests and vectors
- Teach me: Sources of water and how water is purified
- Teach me: The common pests and vectors and where they breed
Revisit from three weeks ago - Week 15
- Quiz: The functions of each class of nutrient
- WAEC prep: Nutrient needs according to age and occupation
- Practice set: Working out the energy needs of a stated person
- Spot my mistake: Assuming everyone of the same age needs the same daily energy intake
- Let me explain: The caloric value of food
- Teach me: The classes of food nutrients and their sources
Revisit from three weeks ago
Nutrition
↑ Jump to week- Week 16
- Quiz: Deficiency diseases and the nutrients they signal
- WAEC prep: The factors that influence food choice
- Practice set: Planning a balanced diet on a small budget
- Spot my mistake: Treating over-nutrition as a sign that a diet is well balanced
- Let me explain: Over-nutrition and obesity
- Teach me: What makes a diet balanced
Revisit from three weeks ago - Week 17
- Quiz: The effect of preparation methods on nutrients
- WAEC prep: Safe storage of different classes of food
- Practice set: Preventing food poisoning in the home
- Spot my mistake: Assuming thorough cooking removes the toxins already formed in a food
- Let me explain: Methods of food preservation
- Teach me: The principles of food hygiene
Revisit from three weeks ago - Week 18
- Quiz: The contents of a first aid kit
- WAEC prep: First aid for poisoning and for drowning
- Practice set: Responding to an accident in a school
- Spot my mistake: Treating first aid as a substitute for medical treatment rather than the care given before it
- Let me explain: First aid for cuts, burns and fractures
- Teach me: The aims and principles of first aid
Revisit from three weeks ago
Safety and Disease Prevention
↑ Jump to week- Week 19
- Quiz: The classes of commonly abused drugs
- WAEC prep: The effects of alcohol on the body and on society
- Practice set: Resisting pressure to use drugs
- Spot my mistake: Assuming a drug prescribed by a doctor cannot be abused
- Let me explain: The effects of tobacco on health
- Teach me: The terminology of drug education
Revisit from three weeks ago - Week 20
- Quiz: Air-borne and water-borne diseases
- Quiz: Puberty and the changes it brings
- WAEC prep: Non-communicable diseases such as diabetes and hypertension
- Practice set: Preventing the spread of a named communicable disease
- WAEC prep: The roles and challenges of family life
- Spot my mistake: Assuming a disease that runs in a family must be communicable
- Spot my mistake: Myths about sexuality that mislead young people
- Let me explain: Insect-borne and contact diseases
- Let me explain: What sexuality education covers and why it matters
- Teach me: How communicable diseases are classified by route
- Teach me: The structure of human reproduction
Revisit from three weeks ago
Mixed WAEC Practice
↑ Jump to week- Week 21
- Quiz: The structure of the ear and how we hear
- Quiz: Examples of reflex action in daily life
- WAEC prep: The nose and tongue as organs of smell and taste
- Practice set: Caring for the sense organs
- WAEC prep: Involuntary actions controlled by the autonomic system
- Practice set: Tracing the path of a described reflex
- Spot my mistake: Assuming the image formed on the retina is upright as we see it
- Spot my mistake: Assuming a reflex action passes through the brain before the response is made
- Let me explain: The skin as an organ of touch
- Let me explain: Voluntary actions and the part the brain plays
- Teach me: The structure of the eye and how it forms an image
- Teach me: The parts of a reflex arc in order
Revisit from three weeks ago - Week 22
- Quiz: Regulation of body temperature
- Quiz: Scoliosis and how it is recognised
- WAEC prep: Regulation of water and salt balance
- WAEC prep: The treatment and correction of each defect
- Practice set: Exercises that help prevent postural defects
- Spot my mistake: Assuming homeostasis means nothing in the body changes
- Spot my mistake: Treating kyphosis and lordosis as curvatures in the same direction
- Let me explain: Regulation of blood sugar
- Let me explain: Kyphosis and lordosis compared
- Teach me: What homeostasis means
- Teach me: Flat foot: its causes and its effects
Revisit from three weeks ago - Week 23
- Quiz: The causes and signs of gingivitis
- WAEC prep: Preventing dental caries and gum disease
- Practice set: Advising a family on dental care
- Spot my mistake: Blaming dental caries on the quantity of sugar rather than on how often it is taken
- Let me explain: The role of diet in dental disease
- Teach me: How dental caries develops
Revisit from three weeks ago - Week 24
- Quiz: The pillars of the Child-Friendly School initiative
- Let me explain: How these initiatives change school practice
- WAEC prep: The benefits of these initiatives to learners
- Practice set: Assessing a school against these standards
- Spot my mistake: Treating a Health Promoting School as a school with a sick bay and nothing more
- Teach me: What a Health Promoting School is
Revisit from three weeks ago - Week 25
- Quiz: Decision-making and refusal skills
- Quiz: Immunisation and supplements during pregnancy
- WAEC prep: How life skills support healthy behaviour
- Practice set: Teaching a life skill to a peer group
- WAEC prep: Skilled birth attendance and postnatal care
- Practice set: Reducing maternal mortality in a community
- Spot my mistake: Treating refusal skills as rudeness rather than as a learned way of saying no
- Spot my mistake: Assuming antenatal care is needed only once a pregnancy shows a problem
- Let me explain: The Education for All goals and their health links
- Let me explain: Danger signs in pregnancy
- Teach me: What life skills are in a health context
- Teach me: What antenatal care involves
Revisit from three weeks ago - Week 26
- Quiz: Barrier methods and how they work
- Quiz: The difference between population and census
- WAEC prep: Permanent methods and their implications
- WAEC prep: The uses of population data in health planning
- Practice set: Interpreting population figures for a community
- Spot my mistake: Beliefs about contraception that are not accurate
- Spot my mistake: Treating a census as a sample survey of a population
- Let me explain: Hormonal methods and their effects
- Let me explain: How a census is conducted
- Teach me: Natural methods of birth control
- Teach me: What population education covers
Revisit from three weeks ago - Week 27
- Quiz: The signs of good social health
- WAEC prep: The effect of poor emotional health on relationships
- Practice set: Building emotional and social wellbeing
- Spot my mistake: Treating emotional health as the absence of unpleasant feelings
- Let me explain: How emotional and social health affect each other
- Teach me: What emotional health means
Revisit from three weeks ago - Week 28
- Quiz: Personality traits and their effect on behaviour
- Quiz: The causes of mental health disorders
- WAEC prep: The characteristics of a mentally healthy person
- Practice set: Coping strategies for everyday stress
- WAEC prep: Prevention and management of mental disorders
- Spot my mistake: Treating a mentally healthy person as one who never feels stress
- Spot my mistake: The stigma attached to mental illness in Nigeria
- Let me explain: Personal problems and how they affect mental health
- Let me explain: The signs that someone needs help
- Teach me: What personality is and how it forms
- Teach me: The common mental health disorders
Revisit from three weeks ago - Week 29
- Quiz: The health products consumers commonly buy
- WAEC prep: Agencies that protect the health consumer
- Practice set: Judging a health product claim
- Spot my mistake: Assuming a health product sold openly in a shop must have been approved
- Let me explain: The health services available to consumers
- Teach me: What consumer health means
Revisit from three weeks ago - Week 30
- Quiz: The types of quackery: mechanical, electrical and drug
- Quiz: The National Health Insurance Scheme
- WAEC prep: The dangers of quackery to health
- Practice set: Checking whether a practitioner is properly registered
- WAEC prep: Misleading health advertising and the rules against it
- Practice set: Evaluating a health advertisement critically
- Spot my mistake: Assuming a practitioner with a certificate on the wall is properly registered
- Spot my mistake: Treating health insurance as a savings account that is refunded when it goes unused
- Let me explain: Why people turn to quacks
- Let me explain: How health products are advertised
- Teach me: What quackery is and how to recognise it
- Teach me: What health insurance is and how it works
Revisit from three weeks ago - Week 31
- Quiz: The types of nostrum sold in Nigeria
- Quiz: Tapeworm and how it is contracted
- WAEC prep: The health risks of using nostrums
- WAEC prep: Guinea worm and its eradication
- Practice set: Preventing worm infection in a household
- Spot my mistake: A miracle cure claim and what marks it out
- Spot my mistake: Assuming every worm infection is contracted by swallowing eggs in food or water
- Let me explain: Why nostrums attract buyers
- Let me explain: Hookworm and its effects on health
- Teach me: What a nostrum is
- Teach me: Roundworm and its life cycle
Revisit from three weeks ago - Week 32
- Quiz: Yellow fever and its transmission
- WAEC prep: Controlling insect and animal disease vectors
- Practice set: Protecting a household against malaria
- Spot my mistake: Assuming every mosquito transmits malaria
- Let me explain: Rabies and how it reaches humans
- Teach me: Malaria and the anopheles mosquito
Revisit from three weeks ago - Week 33
- Quiz: Ringworm and scabies
- Quiz: Marasmus and how it differs from kwashiorkor
- WAEC prep: Prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted infections
- WAEC prep: Rickets and scurvy: causes and prevention
- Practice set: Planning a diet to prevent deficiency disease
- Spot my mistake: Misconceptions about how these infections spread
- Spot my mistake: Treating kwashiorkor and marasmus as one deficiency under two names
- Let me explain: Gonorrhoea and syphilis: signs and effects
- Let me explain: Beriberi and pellagra
- Teach me: How contact diseases spread
- Teach me: Kwashiorkor and the nutrient it signals
Revisit from three weeks ago - Week 34
- Quiz: Sickle cell disease and genotype counselling
- WAEC prep: Cancer: risk factors and early warning signs
- Practice set: Using genotype knowledge in marriage decisions
- Spot my mistake: Assuming two carrier parents can only have carrier children
- Let me explain: Diabetes and its management
- Teach me: How a hereditary disease is passed on
Revisit from three weeks ago - Week 35
- Quiz: Incineration and sanitary landfill compared
- WAEC prep: Recycling and composting as disposal methods
- Practice set: Improving waste disposal in a Nigerian neighbourhood
- Spot my mistake: Treating the open burning of refuse as the same method as incineration
- Let me explain: Methods of sewage disposal
- Teach me: Methods of refuse disposal
Revisit from three weeks ago - Week 36
- Quiz: Physical and chemical occupational hazards
- Quiz: Bone setters and traditional birth attendants
- WAEC prep: Preventing occupational disease and injury
- Practice set: Assessing hazards in a described workplace
- WAEC prep: The strengths and limits of each system
- Spot my mistake: Treating an occupational hazard as an accident that could not have been foreseen
- Spot my mistake: Assuming traditional and orthodox care cannot work together
- Let me explain: Biological and psychological hazards at work
- Let me explain: Orthodox health services and their structure
- Teach me: What industrial health services provide
- Teach me: What traditional health services offer
Revisit from three weeks ago