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Sarhamsyn: Pls, which team are playing?

OkekeOnyi: I pity u.....remember that d same individuas that hike d school fees in d first place are now active members of APC..... PDP n APC governments are All failures especially When it comes to d way n manner uniosun is been run....as 4 me I don't give f*ck who wins.......Am chilling @ my Hood in PH city.

cumz: ENGLISH LANGUAGE
SCHEME OF EXAMINATION
There will be three papers – Papers 1, 2 and 3, all
of which must be taken. Papers 1 and 2 will be
combined in a composite paper to be taken at one
sitting.
PAPER 1: Will consist of eighty multiple choice
questions, all of which should be
answered within 1 hour for 40 marks.
PAPER 2: Will consist of five essay topics and
a passage each to test candidates’
comprehension and summary skills. Candidates
will be expected to write an essay on one of the
topics and answer all the questions on
Comprehension and Summary passages. The
paper will last 2 hours and carry 100 marks.
PAPER 3: Will consist of sixty multiple choice
items on Test of Orals for candidates.
please note that paper 1 carries 40% of the total mark.
paper 2 also carries 40% of the total mark
while paper 3.. oral English is 20%..
.Hope have been able to help?

cumz: good day to you all

OkekeOnyi: I will personally confirm that @ d admission office on Monday...

OkekeOnyi: A strong warning to those aspirants that are feeling n have believe in d fact that their parents knows a very strong person in a particular high position... that will process their admission for them,some only make fake promises to satisfy ur parents .....It meant interest u to know that most of those big men don't even do anything to help... u will just b there languishing in fantasizes....DO NOT PUT ALL UR EGGS IN ONE BASKET...to avoid story that torch... #teampeace

Juwonmania: yes they will. but with connections

Christyabike: Help!!! I av been trying to check my result since yesterday and its been displaying no results with options

Juwonmania: with God and connections you can still be admitted..... start pressing your buttons if you've got some

Juwonmania: with God and connections you can still be admitted..... start pressing your buttons if you've got some

sacrono: ok guys.. 60cm3 of hydrogen was sparked with 20cm3 of oxygen at 100degree/C. The total volume of the residual gases is ??

I think the book am solving with got the answer wrong so please i need confirmation

Husseinat19: Pls ooo am hearin rumorses dat uniosun is sendin result 2 candidates phone number,how true is dis cos i never c any msg o,pls i need reply,tanks

Husseinat19: amin o

cumz: yeah yeah..
I think I can do that...
but don't know how convenient it will be typing on this my palasa techno....Buh I will try...
will go topic by topic

ajidesola: Pls wen will d p.ume result of uniosun b out

Cannyyetty: Wishin Every1 SUCCESS includin Me...We shall ol cum out in flying COLOURS By GODS GRACE

Pprovost: Nice 1 bro... but please explanations on summary and comprehension ll be more appreciated. Good morning sir

Pprovost: D guy has been awesome really. I've been doing overnight reading for English these days, let me say its d only problem for nw and probably physics... maths and others don't stress me at all

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godG: Summarization is arguably one of the easiest aspects of O Level English. When you are asked to summarize, you are expected to brilliantly reduce the size of a text without losing its meaning. For instance, if I ask you to summarize the Nigeria National Anthem into one one sentence, I'm expecting you to tell me what the anthem is all about.

For me, the summary of our anthem in one sentence would be something like: A call to patriotism.

Importantly, it is good you know that when summarizing, there is no fixed answer to how a summary of a piece should look like. It is a subjective thing. By subjective, I mean that how you summarize a piece could be different from how youe friend will. Just make sure the message is not tampered with.

So, my own summary of our anthem is "A call to patriotism." Someone else could say "A call to serve.", "A call to chilvary.", etc. From these variations, what have you noticed? Patriotism is substituted with other synonymous words. And this brings us to our next point.

Please be informed that synonyms/antonyms/pronouns, deletion, etc. are important tools in summarization. They are used to avoid redundancy or unnecessary repetitions of some words.(This is one of the hallmarks of summarization.) Let us now look at this example:

Tola is a very caring girl. She has a the hearth of an angel, and this is perhaps why people want to share their problem with Tola. Tola is the perfection of beauty and love. Tola has made me understood that we make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we give.

Assuming you have been told to summarize this into two sentences, the first thing you should do is to look at any repeated word and find a substitute for it. So, first, instead of repeating 'Tola', you can substitute it with a pronoun, (words used instead of a noun).

After that you can ow try to identify the core message of the piece and start your summary. This, for me, would be summarized as:

To is a caring lady.
She is loved by mamh because she cares.

Let me just tell you that the first thing you should do is to understand the passage. This is very important. You can't summarize what you don't know. Once you know what the passage is about, you can now use your own words to summarize without distorting the meaning of the passage.

Let me tell you again, summarization is subjective don't be afraid to be creative when summarizing but you must not deviate or distort meanings.

Hope this helps. Don't hesitate to ask more questions if you are still confused.

***Please, excuse any typo.

cc Pprovost

cumz: great work sir...
really learning.
please can you give us a hint on how to answer summary questions