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Education › Re: UI 2018/2019 Admission Thread by afoobabs(m): 8:31pm On Feb 23, 2018

fhranchez:
pls house is jamb registration still on?

Education › Re: UI 2018/2019 Admission Thread by afoobabs(m): 8:27pm On Feb 23, 2018

DrBESTJC:
Wait!!!
I'm already sweating trying to understand this topic...

These BLOCK PLURAL GROUPS(such as....The poor, The handicapped, The aged,.... and so on) or UNMARKED PLURALS(such as......police, vermin, folk, youth, cattle....and so on ) are really very confusing.
My textbook(INVISCIBLE TEACHER) says that the two should be treated as plurals and they take plural verbs.

Let's take a critical look at these questions because they look alike...

1: The government which......recruiting........workers suddenly stopped doing so.
(A) are/its
(B) was/its. correct
(C) is/their
(D) were/their

2: The police........happy about the dwindling crime rate.
(A) says they are correct
(B) say it is
(C) say they are
(D) says it is

3: The helpless............our sympathy.
(A) require correct
(B) requires
(C) does require
(D) do requires

4: The vermin on his body........hideous.
(A) makes the lunatic look
(B) make the lunatic look correct
(C) makes the lunatic to look
(D) make the lunatic to look

Anybody that knows the CORRECT ANSWER with the CORRECT EXPLANATION should help out...

don't sweat its simple
government is different from all what u mentioned up there wen govt is in its own plural form it takes (s) eg governments of the three superpowers are same in essence but police poor helpless remain d same both in plural and singular form don't forget there are exceptions in the rules of grammar
example it is said any where you see (to) the verb that will follows must be ing eg look forward to seeing you she confessed to committing the crime. but I can say I am going to read tonight. which is also correct. remember collocation

Education › Re: UI 2018/2019 Admission Thread by afoobabs(m): 3:13pm On Feb 23, 2018

DrBESTJC:
Oh my God!......You are a jambite?..........I thought you are even a lecturer...........That means I still have a long way to go!

lol, you got me cracking my ribs with this. lecturer ?
i receive it sha.
I pray i become one soonest.

Education › Re: UI 2018/2019 Admission Thread by afoobabs(m): 2:32pm On Feb 23, 2018*

DrBESTJC:
This is another JAMB question under this topic.I want to use this one to assess myself and ascertain that I have understood this.....

Sixty percent of the unskilled workers..........yearly by the company.
(A) are retain
(B) is retained
(C) were retained
(D) are retained

My answer is D.
Bravo!

Any countermotion?

am flattered with those encomiums
pls do not think too highly of me ooo
am also a jambite like u are
we are in this together

Education › Re: UI 2018/2019 Admission Thread by afoobabs(m): 11:54am On Feb 23, 2018

DrBESTJC:
JAMB ENGLISH.

Three quarters of the people in the village.......... killed but only half of their huts.............affected.
(A) were/were
(B) was/was
(C) were/was
(D) was/were

Explanations are needed as well

@iamgoke and Samsonyte:
i want to believe both of you got it wrong
like samson said a percentage of something should attract a plural verb, while the second clause should also attract a plural verb (were)
note: its (huts plural) not (hut singular) assuming their huts are twenty in number (i believe you know that a place with one or two huts cannot be referred to as a village) half of the huts should be 10 huts so its still plural.
the correct option is A.

DrBESTJC:

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Education › Re: UI 2018/2019 Admission Thread by afoobabs(m): 11:28am On Feb 23, 2018*

Samsonyte:
Option D is the correct answer.
Anytime you see which, who whose, that in the question, noun or pronoun that comes before it and that noun or pronoun must become the subject. In the example above, which refers to 'The government' which is now our subject and it attracts were not was because the subject is not a singular noun but plural noun, because they are Block Plural groups, they do not carry s at the back. example The poor, The handicapped. so The Main Subject in the first clause 'The Government will determine the verb singular or plural, and as u already know dat The government is a plural noun, the answer will be their not its.
Another example
One of the girls who ____ impregnated ____ died
a. was / have
b. were / have
c. was / has
d. were / has

Option C
The first clause, singular or plural before who is 'girls' so girls is a plural noun which attract were past tense of was 'impregnated'.
The main subject 'One of' indicate singular noun, will determine the verb in the second clause singular or plural.

Samson calm down oooo
dont get urself confused

the first question you are arguing on
Choose the correct option.

The government which.........recruiting..........workers suddenly stopped doing so.
(A) are/its
(B) was/its
(C) is/their
(D) were/their.

in this context a plural verb cannot be used with government ooo
although government comprise of a lot of people but the name government has put all of them in a singular entity so government will be treated as a singular
therefore
option B is correct
the government which is recruiting its workers suddenly stopped doing so
another example
1. The presidency has issue a statement on the abduction of school girls in Yobe. presidency in this example does not mean the president alone but himself, his cabinet, his advisers, and every one that works in president office has been put together in singular entity. you will notice that a singular supporting verb (has) is used.

2. Bacelona Fc has lost out in the UEFA champions league. bacelona fc comprise of over 11 players, managers, fans, etc. but they have become a singular entity so a singular verb will be used.

ALso note that government can be pluralise by adding (s) eg.
The governments of the three superpowers are alike in essence
in this case it is plural and a plural verb must follow.

Now
the example you cited in your argument, u also got it wrong

One of the girls who ____ impregnated ____ died
a. was / have
b. were / have
c. was / has
d. were / has

the question is very dicey one to answer
rule: any question that has who which whose to get the subject u will look for the closest noun to the adjective who, which, or whose.

in this case, (girls) is the closest subject/noun to (who). so we go with (were) plural past and the second clause the subject is (one of) so we go with (has) singular

One of the girls who were impregnated has died correct
meaning
a couple of girls were impregnated and one of them has died
cc: iamgoke DrBESTJC

Education › Re: UI 2018/2019 Admission Thread by afoobabs(m): 10:43am On Feb 23, 2018

DrBESTJC:
Thanks a lot sir. My mock exam is comming up on 26th of this month.Please I need more of your help to prepare for the MAIN jamb.English can be very confusing at times.

You are welcome sir.

wish you the best of luck in your Mock Exam

Education › Re: UI 2018/2019 Admission Thread by afoobabs(m): 10:03pm On Feb 22, 2018

DrBESTJC:
JAMB ENGLISH.

Fill in the blank space with the correct option.

He decided to wait for the bus because he had.........
(A) too many luggage
(B) many luggages
(C) a lot of luggage
(D) plenty luggages

Please english gurus here help out with this.......@ 'afoobabs' et al.......Jamb don land for person front door.........I don successfully REPRINT MY MOCK EXAM SLIP sef...

Explanations are needed as well.

as iamgoke has rightly said luggage is luggage both in singular and plural form dont ever add (s) to any uncountable noun
with this we are left with 2 options A and C.
option A is not correct because determinant (many) can only be use for countable/count noun e.g (1)he has many cars. (2) we have too many women on this forum
Determinant a lot can be use with uncountable noun eg. a lot of luggage, a lot of money, a lot of water.
Therefore, option C is correct. A lot of luggage

when are you slated to write the mock

Education › Re: UI 2018/2019 Admission Thread by afoobabs(m): 6:34pm On Feb 22, 2018

DrBESTJC:
JAMB ENGLISH.

Fill in the blank space with the correct option.

Gone are the days when he .......... enjoy patronage.
(A) would
(B) will
(C) used to
(D) could

Explanations will be highly appreciated

A. is the correct option
will is used to express habitual action. eg. the boy will come here and cry and cry every day.
but the question is in past form so (will) will have to change to (would) past form

Gone are the days when he would enjoy patronage (correct)

Education › Re: UI 2018/2019 Admission Thread by afoobabs(m): 6:32pm On Feb 22, 2018

DrBESTJC:
JAMB ENGLISH.

Fill in the blank space with the correct option.

The lecturer said that we ......... be able to finish the next chapter this evening
(A) must
(B) can
(C) shall
(D) should

Please explain your answer!

the correct option is D (should)
CAN and MUST can't go with be able. so we should strike out the two option
Now we have shall and should
shall and should means same thing but present and past tense respectively
if we take a cursory look at the question we will see that the verb in the first clause is a past tense verb. therefore the verb in the second clause must be in past tense as well

The lecturer said that we should be able to finish the next chapter this evening (correct)

Education › Re: UI 2018/2019 Admission Thread by afoobabs(m): 6:17pm On Feb 22, 2018*

DrBESTJC:
JAMB ENGLISH.

Fill in the blank space with the correct option.

Do you think all............not enough to help the investigations?
(A) these informations are
(B) this informations is
(C) this information is
(D) these information are

See me see englishoooooo........when I thought I have known it all......LOL....
Abeg grammarians here help out...

SHOW FULL WORKINGS..........don't say I made a mistake......this one pass maths

D is the correct option
(ALL) is used which indicates that what we are talking about is more than one and this implies that our answer should be in plural form
(this) is singular while the plural is (these) so we go with THESE. (Information) like advice, water, money is a non count noun so it remain the same both in singular and plural form (Information dont take (s) in it plural form) so we go we INFORMATION again. (is) is singular while (are) is the plural
so we go with ARE
Answer
these information are
Do you think all these information are not enough to help the investigations? (correct)

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Education › Re: UI 2018/2019 Admission Thread by afoobabs(m): 5:14pm On Feb 22, 2018

Abdulmujeeb52:
I'll urge you to be very very conscious when choosing an answer.
That aside, INEC is the body that conducts guber/election while state electoral commission does it for local govt and councillor .

By the virtue of the collective responsibility of the parliamentary system makes a minister flaw binds against one another ,thus vote of no confidence affects and consequently makes the whole cabinet first resigns .
However ,this is contrary to presidential system whereby individual minister is responsible to the president .
Moreover , impeachment somewhat similar to vote of no confidence affect s only the president not his ministers

N:B if perhaps you're using only one textbook for govt - you can however switch to internet in the course of your reading or join some online tutorials to buttress your unclear points.

Govt as a social science subject LOOKS simple but very tactical expecially its options.

I beg to disagree.
In order to answer the first question you need to know what gubernatorial election means:
we have different kind of elections. 1. presidential, senatorial, gubernatorial, local govt election etc.

presidential election sees to the the election of a president

senatorial election is done to elect senators

gubernatorial election is done to elect State governors

the INEC (federal) oversees the all elections that has to do with federal i.e presidential senatorial and federal constituency elections.

while (state) INEC oversees the all election that is within the state. gubernatorial/governorship election and local government election.

Now to the question.
the questions lay emphasis on most important duty of state INEC.

although State Inec conducts both guber and local govt elections, but dont forget local govt election in Nigeria is a governor's prerogative
it may or may not be conducted depending on the governor's decision. But guber election must be conducted so this makes it the most important duty of the state INEC.

Education › Re: UI 2018/2019 Admission Thread by afoobabs(m): 4:14pm On Feb 19, 2018*

Samsonyte:
What is now the correct answer to the question above.
My dad slapped my mum and ME? or
My dad slapped my mum and I?

the question is trying to test our use of pronoun
first a subject is the doer of an action in a sentence while object is the receiver of the action
e.g. the man killed the snake in this example (the man) is the doer of the action i.e. the subject while the snake is the receiver of the action i.e object.

also you need to know the forms that pronouns can take. i.e subject or object

subject: I we he she
object :me us him her

now if we look at the question again u will see that the speaker and his mum are the receiver of the action i.e. (objects) therefore if you using a pronoun instead, it has to be an object pronoun.
so,
My dad slapped my mum and (ME) object pronoun correct

or the sentence can be better rephrased as
My dad slapped me and my mum

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Education › Re: UI 2018/2019 Admission Thread by afoobabs(m): 3:43pm On Feb 19, 2018

ChiomaMee:
I can't wait to see you in Ui oo

can't wait to join u too dear.

Thanks

Education › Re: UI 2018/2019 Admission Thread by afoobabs(m): 11:09am On Feb 16, 2018

DrBESTJC:
JAMB ENGLISH

Choose the correct option.

One of the ............. selective marking of errors.
(A) school of thought suggests
(B) schools of thought suggest
(C) school of thoughts suggested
(D) schools of thought suggests

Explanations needed.

As chiomamee has rightly said the answer is D
(one of) is used with a plural noun i.e. one out of many things
eg. one of the girls, one of the houses, one of the cars.

school is a count Noun it can be pluralise by adding(s).

then it is the form of our subject that will determines the form of our verb
so now what is the subject in the expression is? (One) note: (not schools)
since one is a singular subject the verb that follows must be a singular verb. i.e. suggests
option D: schools of thought suggests is correct

One of the schools of thought suggests selective marking of errors.

meaning
One out of the numerous schools of thought suggests selective marking of errors

cc:Samsonyte: FrancisSpecter:

Education › Re: University Of Ibadan(UI) 2017/2018 Admission Thread by afoobabs(m): 4:50pm On Feb 04, 2018

sirgalahad26:
thank u so much!

integrated points on government by Omokayode Olalekan Isaac

Education › Re: University Of Ibadan(UI) 2017/2018 Admission Thread by afoobabs(m): 1:18pm On Feb 02, 2018

Dkfpaul:
buh education and pol.sci is under faculty of education

its okay just saying noni. but one thing that is worthy of note is that u will also be going to faculty of social science to receive lecture on pol science. its like double major thing education and pol science

Education › Re: University Of Ibadan(UI) 2017/2018 Admission Thread by afoobabs(m): 10:34am On Feb 01, 2018

sirgalahad26:
madam pls, i need ur advice ASAP, which govt. and econs. textbook do u think is the best bet as par jamb preparation?
Afoobabs i need u too!

i will get back to you on a particular book you can use to complement the essential govt, the book is very helpful but relatively scarce though. on econs go with the book chiomamee recommended, she is a living witness to how helpful the book can be.

Education › Re: University Of Ibadan(UI) 2017/2018 Admission Thread by afoobabs(m): 10:23am On Feb 01, 2018

Dkfpaul:
i have registered with eng,govt,crs and lit. In english.

Pls be sincere will there be problem with that

i think u should include econs being a social science subject to be on the safer side, since pol science is under faculty of social science.

Change of subject combination is free it will be available towards the end of registration
You can either sub crk or lit-in-eng for it

Education › Re: University Of Ibadan(UI) 2017/2018 Admission Thread by afoobabs(m): 10:08pm On Jan 31, 2018

Dkfpaul:
Please guyz, what are the subject requirements needed to study education and political science ?

Please reply me asap,i want to go and register today.
Thanks.

same as in Bsc. pol science
english, govt or history, plus any social science or art subject

but below is the requirement for all educations and social science courses

Education › Re: University Of Ibadan(UI) 2017/2018 Admission Thread by afoobabs(m): 9:55pm On Jan 31, 2018

ChiomaMee:
Brother mi, it came as a surprise oo. Are u applying for the same course??

yes

Education › Re: University Of Ibadan(UI) 2017/2018 Admission Thread by afoobabs(m): 5:20pm On Jan 30, 2018

ChiomaMee:
afoobabs.. .where art thou?

wow congrats Chioma. last last am happy for you ooo. i knew it.
well its hustling things that kept me away from here for some time now. Man got to move on. we coming back in 2018 stronger and better.

when is the celebration gonna be.
we sure shall pop something over this.

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Education › Re: What Was Your Nickname In Secondary School? by afoobabs(m): 11:46pm On Jan 13, 2018

some call me dudu was very black, while some call m prof. and some Afoo culled from my name Afolabi. hmm good old days shatout to my niggas in AIGS.

Education › Re: UI Admits 3,783 Out Of 56,172 Applicants For 2017/2018 by afoobabs(m): 9:46am On Jan 11, 2018

so nltaliban apart from been the chief solicitor for ui on nairaland u av also appoint ursef minister of information to UI. grin

hope u get paid ooo cheesy

Education › Re: University Of Ibadan(UI) 2017/2018 Admission Thread by afoobabs(m): 12:20am On Jan 11, 2018

ChiomaMee:
I've given up on ui

hmm, takes a deep breathe am just speechless will reserve my comment till Jan 15

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Education › Re: University Of Ibadan(UI) 2017/2018 Admission Thread by afoobabs(m): 12:05pm On Jan 10, 2018

Yusuf54:
Gbese am in trouble.....which kind of error is that...Na UTME SUBJECT COMBINATION DEY SHOW INSTEAD OF DIRECT ENTRY,,M VERY CONFUSED

this is what ur caps portal should look like

Education › Re: University Of Ibadan(UI) 2017/2018 Admission Thread by afoobabs(m): 11:32am On Jan 10, 2018

Nltaliban:
On a serious note, I tell people that once your admission gets to the point of change of course, the probability of getting admitted is 0.2.

Reason is this, after change of course, people who applied will be arranged according to their sores and admission will be offered to people with high scores alone ( except in cases where children of lecturer apply, they're only required to meet the initial cut off mark of the course they're changing to).
Now as regards your case, economics cut of marks is 65.13.
Your aggregate is 58, let's assume you changed to psychology, aspirants with scores higher than yours 60-65.10 who couldn't get economics will also change to same psychology you changed to will be admitted before you. That's just the logic.

During coc, you just don't need to score pass the actual cut off of the course you're changing to, you need to have a very good mark to fetch you admission.

Coc is very dicy, in year 2015 I knew a lecturer's son who scored 71 He picked medicine initially , changed to veterinary medicine with initial cut off mark of 50 and didn't get admission because vet pegged their coc cut off at 72. It affects everyone.

tell me what I don't know. this epistle is not what am asking you. I quoted a post where the poster claimed that someone applied for econs but came up with the aggregate of 52 and was given sociology (note: initial cut off for sociology was 62) whereas we have other who applied for the same course (eco) but fell short of the cutoff that was not offered any other course even though their score is higher than 52. is that not double standard

Education › Re: University Of Ibadan(UI) 2017/2018 Admission Thread by afoobabs(m): 4:48am On Jan 10, 2018

Lolly1968:
I know someone whose aggregate is 52 and has already been admitted by caps to sociology. Initial course is economics

if this is true then am beginning to doubt the fairness of UI admission process bcus I applied for economics and my aggregate was 58, but am yet to be given admission not even to my applied coc course and there is a friend here who was just 0.13 point away from the cutoff of the same course yet she hasn't been admitted. chiomaMee u nid to see this nltaliban what do u have to say to this.

Education › Re: University Of Ibadan(UI) 2017/2018 Admission Thread by afoobabs(m): 7:03am On Jan 01, 2018

chinikes:
please what is the subject combination for economics. need reply asap

utme combo: use of english, mathematics, economics and government/geography

olevel combination: English, eco, math, govt/geo and any other subject from art science or social science.

I hope this help.

Education › Re: University Of Ibadan(UI) 2017/2018 Admission Thread by afoobabs(m): 11:54am On Dec 26, 2017

Stry4:
nop...Hv u?

same but what is on ur own caps mine is not admitted still has ur own changed

Education › Re: University Of Ibadan(UI) 2017/2018 Admission Thread by afoobabs(m): 11:11am On Dec 26, 2017

has anyone who did COC to special education been offered admission? if yes pls wen

Education › Re: UI 2018/2019 Admission Thread by afoobabs(m): 4:55pm On Dec 13, 2017

SilverSnow:
Hello everyone,I have a few questions to ask:
1. How is U.I admission system. Do they use WAEC grades as a criteria?

Yes they no longer use Olevel to grade candidate but it is still a criteria 5 olevel credit or 6 in 2 sittings. they now use utme and putme score to grade candidates

2. How do the UTME and PUTME scores add up to form aggregate? utme/ 8 + putme/2 i.e. 400/8 =50 + 100/2 = 50 =100

3. How much is their acceptance and school fees? #30,000 i think ...
Thanks. you are welcome

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