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Sweet Sixteen Novel Summary And Questions

Updated on December 9, 2021 by Isaac

What was the Recommended Novel for Jamb 2020? Without beating about the bush, the Jamb UTME recommended text for 2020 Use of English was Sweet Sixteen.

If this is the first time you’re sitting for Jamb, take note that Jamb recommends novels to be read yearly for Jamb use of English. The Jamb Novel is compulsory for both art, Science and Commercial students.


Jamb uses Novel two or three years before Introducing a new one. Sweet 16 was introduced in 2019 Jamb and also used for Jamb 2020. The Life Changer Novel was used for Jamb 2021.

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A number of questions came out of the novel. Trust me, sweet sixteen novel carried a whole lot of marks. You won’t be happy with yourself failing questions because of refusal to read the novel.

Now you may be wondering, is sweet sixteen hard or simple to read? How many days will it take me to understand the Jamb new book? Which is simpler between In Dependence and sweet sixteen by Jamb? Continue reading for description and summary of Jamb sweet 16.

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Title of Novel For Jamb 2019 & 2020: Sweet Sixteen

Where: Get Jamb Sweet Sixteen Here 

Author of Sweet 16: Bolaji Abdullahi


Genre: Genre means a type of art, literature, or music characterized by a specific form, content, and style. The Genre of Sweet Sixteen is Fiction

Number of Pages of Pages is Sweet Sixteen: 157

Publication Year: Sweet sixteen was published on February 1, 2017

How Many Days To Finish The Sweet 16 Novel

If you study 10 pages daily, it will take you approximately 16 days to finish the Jamb novel. If you are able to read 20 pages daily, you will finish it within 8 days. I would advise you to read the novel at least two times before the Jamb exam date.

How to get the Novel? Available at Bookstores nationwide and Jamb computer-based centres. You shall get the Novel when you register for Jamb. You can get the novel here.

Short Description of Sweet Sixteen

Aliya has to constantly remind her father that she is not a child but ”˜a young adult.’ He does not always agree with her.

But now that she is turning sixteen, he is sitting up and taking notice. The expected birthday card from him is replaced by a present and no holds barred letter ”“ a page for each year she has lived.

It chronicles the lessons he has tried to teach her and the wisdom he has attempted to pass to her. It unburdens the burning questions she has about life and sometimes shows through the cluelessness of parental units.

Aliya questions who she is and why she is; with her father as a guide on this journey of discovery. An engaging coming of age guide on life and love for the teenage girl.

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Summary of Jamb Novel “Sweet Sixteen (16)”

In Bolaji Abdullahi’s Sweet Sixteen, the protagonist, 16-year-old Aliya, whom her father refers to adoringly as ”˜My First Lady,’ bombards her father with questions, some of which threw her journalist father off balance.

”˜’Okay Daddy, what does HAK and KOTL mean?,”Aliya asked. And when the father expressed his ignorance of the acronyms, Aliya gleefully supplied them; ”˜’HAK means ”˜Hugs and Kisses’ while KOTL means ”˜Kiss On The Lips’.

And when she added that some students were caught on the school’s basketball court at night having ”˜’53X’ (s3x), Mr Bello almost fainted. ”˜’But”¦how do you know all these?,” he asked almost in consternation, to which Aliya replied: ”˜’Come on Daddy, everybody knows these things.”

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In his debut fictional work, Bolaji Abdullahi, who has written extensively over the years on politics, policy and development, laid bare in an absorbing page-turner, murky truths and hitherto unspeakable issues in the ever-challenging world of teenagers and young adults.

Divided into seven sections; The Letter, The Drive, Work, The Gandhi Test, Dating, Stereotype and Beauty, Sweet Sixteen’s central focus is a series of conversations between Mr Bello and her 16-year-old intelligent and precocious daughter on the ”˜facts of life.’

These are topics which the book’s editor, Molara Wood, referred to on the book’s cover jacket as ”˜’everything a teenage girl ever wanted to know but was afraid to ask.”

Another part of the book’s blurb referred to it as ”˜’a parenting manual and a guidebook for young adults.”

The above notwithstanding, sociologists, educationists and policy-makers, as well as parents and guardians, are still divided on how much ”˜sensitive’ information, especially on s3x education, should be divulged to teenagers.

For example, in a recent UK survey, more than half of parents do not think s3x education should be taught to children at school. According to a poll by baby product website babychild.org.uk; ”˜’Many think it is inappropriate to teach children about s3x, whilst others think it should be a parent’s choice to inform their own children.”

 Get Jamb Sweet Sixteen Here 

However, on the other side of the coin, it is believed that, just as Aliya put it in Sweet Sixteen, most teenagers are already aware of what adults seem to be hiding from them.

According to one expert; ”˜’Comprehensive s3x education doesn’t encourage kids to have s3x. Just like abstinence-only programmes, good comprehensive programmes teach students that abstinence is the only surefire way to prevent pregnancy and STDs.

The difference is that these programmes also give students realistic and factual information about the safety of various s3xual practices, and how to improve the odds.”

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In writing Sweet Sixteen, BolajiAbdullahi, a former Nigerian Minister of Youths and Sports, among other previous jobs, must have critically weighed the above positions before taking on a smorgasbord of young adult topics that ranged from bullying, dating, stereotype, ethics and s3x education, among others.

In pushing out his themes, the author finds a good ally in Aliya Bello, a teenager with a curious, fascinating and inquisitive mind and a devoted as well as a responsible father.

Mr Bello, as expected of any good father, took responsibility for the education of his daughter, including the tricky but very important aspect of s3x education.

Aliya is, therefore, fortunate to have a father who does not leave her to struggle alone with the demons that usually torment teenagers when awash in a flood of hormones and the pull of peer pressure.

The result is a compelling tale, loaded with morality and textured with a rich lyrical prose and young adult lingo”¦story-story, my bestie, OMG among others.

The storyline has an upper-middle-class flavour with luxuriant meals, leisurely Saturday drives and a Mrs Bello, the nurse, often distant from father and daughter.

But in the hinterland between fact and fiction, the author is able to deftly sift the core values from the emotion, the treat from the trick and for this, parents and guardians will forever be grateful.

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  1. Oladele Boluwatife Samson says

    What are the subject for psychology

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  2. Joy Samuel says

    This is a great one, thanks for the knowledge sir

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  3. AHANEKU JENNIFER says

    pls sir what are the subject for psychology

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  4. Anonymous says

    pls sir what are the subject for psychology

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    • Anonymous says

      Physics chemistry English biology

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  5. Daniel says

    I am about to peek jamb this year I need a summary for. Physics chemistry biology and English

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  6. Ayomide oluwakemisola says

    Pls sir I want to sit for jamb this year and I really really need ur help sir pls on my subjects

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  7. Philip says

    Sir please lecture me on what to do so that to make to 200 and above in english, economics, crk, and lit in eng

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    • Chains👼 says

      Just have to study smart

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  8. Anonymous says

    Literally, there was no antagonist and Aliya’s mom was not identified, so she is just Mrs Aliyah.

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  9. De Neuman says

    1. who was the Antognonist of the sweet sixteen, 2.who is Aliya mother.

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    • Anonymous says

      Literally, there was no antagonist and Aliya’s mom was not identified, so she is just Mrs Aliyah.

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      • Anonymous says

        Aliya’s Mum is Mrs Bello

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  10. Joshua Patience says

    Pls sir i need ur help in Maths, English, Economics,and Commerce

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    • Nnoshiri Prisca Oluchi says

      Pls sir I need ur help in English, Maths, Economics Nd Commerce.

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  11. preshy luke says

    what are the subjects combinations for marketing in university of portharcourt

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  12. Imo blessing ime says

    Pls help wit physics and chemistry

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  13. Rebecca George says

    Thanks for d info

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  14. Iorwuese Lubem says

    Wonderful sir keep i am guide this hour welldone

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  15. Christabel Arochi says

    Please sir, what are the subject combination for jamb in computer science

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    • Anonymous says

      Maths English physics and chemistry

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    • Anonymous says

      Maths physics chemistry
      Maths and physics is

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  16. Emmanuella moses says

    Please sir what are the subjects in education administration

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  17. Isaac Inegbenehi says

    The Jamb subject combination is okay

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  18. Ovievie .C. Emmanuel says

    Good-day sir/ma,please what are the subject l need to go and study medicine at the University.Thank you sir/ma😊.

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  19. mohammed bello Abubakar says

    pls help with government economic literature

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  20. olalekan says

    sir,I need your help on math,English,Physics & chemistry

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  21. Udeme Anthony Umoren says

    Pls sir/ma I need your help on eng,bio,chem,phy because am writing my jamb tomorrow

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  22. Uchola Nicodemus says

    sir I Will need your help for English, maths, Accounting Economy,

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    • Anonymous says

      ME TOO BRO

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  23. Joseph victoria says

    pls help me with my English,Government,CRS ad Economics sir

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  24. Aniekpeno says

    please sir i need help from you in maths chemistry and physics.thanks

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  25. abdulrasak babalola says

    pls sir i need ur help in chemistry

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  26. vivian says

    please sir i will need your help on Physics and Chemistry.

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  27. Maureen says

    pls I want to no the topic that will come out in these subject English, government, mathematics, economics

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  28. Adi charisa says

    plz sir can u be able to get me jam anwers on Enlish,literature and goverment

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  29. Raji Abosede says

    Can an incorrect email still be corrected

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  30. Gbolahan tomiwa says

    I dropped an incorrect email during my jamb registration pls Hw am I going to correct it

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  31. Alice says

    What are areas for economic,govt,maths,english

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  32. Ifeanyi joy chiamaka says

    I just need lit,English, Govt, and C.r.k

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  33. Fathia says

    Is language and literary study is gud for me under mass com

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  34. Odun says

    wen wil change of institution be out

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  35. abdul-akeem odo says

    what are the areas of english and chemistry

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  36. Godwin says

    Pls is mass com a good course. Cos an trying to chose BTW mass com and business management.. I love dem both..pls help me

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  37. Y says

    T

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  38. islamiyat adeyemi says

    pls sir what are the combination subject for guidance nd counselling?

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  39. muhammed Ismael says

    please assuming my favorite school did not give admission can I tender it to another school

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    • Isaac Inegbenehi says

      Yes, you can do change of institution

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    • Anas dauda says

      sir please i may need your assistance me with english, government, i.r.k, economic

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  40. Florence says

    can one choose Health Tech schools as second choice during registration

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  41. Brandon Okorie says

    I registered for jamb at global distance learning centre Abuja. i was not given the compulsory novel, what do I do

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  42. Ruth says

    Please what can I do….I did jamb last and also registered for this year with the same number… But the e-mail was my last year email coz I was told by the workers their that it can’t be changed since I used the number last year….so they changed my password said it won’t affect it.. .
    But now I just want to know if it will affect because that password wasn’t registered with the e-mail…. Please I need a reply…please…..
    Thank you sir/ma.

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    • Isaac Inegbenehi says

      It won’t affect you

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      • Ruth says

        Thank you so much sir…am very grateful..

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    • Anonymous says

      is your password changed or not ?

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  43. ONYEUKWU IFUNAYA says

    WHAT IS D SUBJECT COMBINATION FOR BANKING&FINANCE

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    • Isaac Inegbenehi says

      Checkout jamb subject combination for all courses in Nigeria here https://flashlearners.com/jamb-subject-combinations-universities/

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  44. Anonymous says

    Mass comm has a very easy subject combination !try it and u need econs for mass comm

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  45. Anonymous says

    Not really

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  46. Timileyin says

    Please can i study masscommunication without economics

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    • Anonymous says

      u just need lit-in-eng, english, govt and any other art course eg crs

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