*2020 JAMB USE OF ENGLISH SYLLABUS* ```2020 JAMB ENGLISH SYLLABUS``` 1. demonstrate sufficient knowledge of the concepts of the diversity interdependence and unity of life; 2. account for continuity of life through reorganization, inheritance and evolution; 3. apply biological principles and concepts to everyday life, especially to matters affecting living things, individual, society, the environment, community health and the economy. A. Comprehension/Summary Topics: (a) description (b) narration (c) exposition (d) argumentation/persuasion (i) Each of the three passages to be set (one will be a cloze test) should reflect various disciplines and be about 200 words long. (ii) Questions on the passages will test the following: (a) Comprehension of the whole or part of each passage. (b) Comprehension of words, phrases, clauses, sentences, figures of speech and idioms as used in the passages. (c) Coherence and logical reasoning (deductions, inferences, etc). (d)