WAEC Typewriting Syllabus 2026/2027 & Textbooks

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The WAEC Typewriting Syllabus 2026/2027 & Textbooks assesses a candidate’s ability to type at a minimum of 40 words per minute, producing mailable documents and completing practical office tasks. The examination includes a speed and accuracy test, and production tasks such as business correspondence, manuscript typing, display work, tabulation, and completing business forms. Candidates are expected to handle documents with various manuscript corrections and follow instructions for layout, punctuation, and alignment.

Contents

1 Examination Guides
2 What to Note?
3 WAEC Typewriting Syllabus 2026/2027
4 STATIONERY FOR THE EXAMINATION
5 WAEC Typewriting Textbooks 2026/2027
6 Recent Posts

Examination Guides

The total time allowed for the examination will be 2 hours 45 minutes.
5 minutes for warming up on the material supplied by the Council in the examination paper. The time taken for typing the preliminary passage will not be included in the time for the examination.
5 minutes for a speed and accuracy test.
10 minutes for reading through the examination paper.
2 hours 30 minutes for production tasks.
The speed and accuracy test will be set at 40 words per minute and will carry 10 percent of the total marks. The syllabic intensity of the passage will range between 1.35 and 1.40.
The production test will consist of a maximum of 5 tasks and will start after all the scripts for the speed and accuracy test have been collected and duly initialed by the invigilator.
The total standard words for the examination (both tasks and accuracy test) will range between 1350 and 1450.
The total number of instructions attracting penalties will range between 40 and 50.

What to Note?

For the successful implementation of this syllabus, institutions offering this course should provide a sufficient number of typewriters for students and ensure at least five periods of forty minutes each per week.

Qualified typewriting teachers should handle the subject.

Where the number of candidates exceeds the number of available typewriters for the examination, institutions may apply to the Council for permission to conduct the examination in two or three sessions on the same day.

The centre will be responsible for the effective segregation of candidates to ensure that those leaving an earlier session have no contact with candidates attending a later session for the entire duration of the examination.

Applications for such sessions, indicating the number of papers required for each session and the proposed times, must be submitted when the entry forms are returned to the appropriate national office.

The typewriting teacher should not act as a Supervisor or Invigilator in his or her own school but may assist if a defect in a machine unexpectedly affects a candidate’s progress.

There should be an alternative paper (Alternative B), which will be made available to schools that cannot accommodate all candidates for the typewriting examination on the scheduled day, provided the Council is given at least six months’ notice.

The use of electric typewriters may be permitted; however, the Council will not accept responsibility for any electrical or electronic problems. Supervisors and Invigilators must ensure that the memory of the typewriter is removed or cleared and that candidates submit typed scripts for the speed and accuracy test.

Any satisfactory method of erasure will be allowed, except in the speed and accuracy test, where no corrections are permitted.