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
PAGE CONTENTS
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.”
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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Please sir I have Cs in my o’level result and am a science student please what can I study with it
Cause I want to become a doctor
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It depends on the university u want to fill in for. Some schools considers the grades in your olevel as an admission criterion. something like A1=6 points etc. whatever that means. So if u don’t have enough A’s or B’s it may reduce ur admission chances. but u can also increases ur admission chances by high jamb ND putme scores. I mean high.. medicine no be teeth lol
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Pls sir, hw possible is it for me to read for 10hrs without dozing?I tried but it was just for 6hrs.I could not continue,pls can you give me some tips.
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pls sir what can i study with this o’level result
Data Processing B3
Economics C4
Civic Education B3
English Language C5
Yoruba Language B2
Fur Mathematics B3
Mathematics B3
Chemistry A1
Physics B3
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Ugochukwu offor says
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Isaac Inegbenehi says
I am glad you found it helpful Offor
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It is a no no because of Econs (D7), you’ll have to check if Economics is compulsory in your choice of institutions.
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Good evening sir, thanks for the wonderful news
Isaac Inegbenehi says
You are more than welcome
Terfa Shiaondo Stephen says
Sir, what is the score for medicine at Benue State university makurdi?
Ranking chukwu says
250”
Abass says
Sir I want download the novel but seems it can’t download,how can I do it
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Isaac Inegbenehi says
Sweet Sixteen Download link is not available for now
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But it seems as if is not working
Sir please what should I do
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Oluwaseyi says
Wonderful morning to you sir, thanks for all your supports and mentorship. Please sir, i study medicine using a 3 sitting result?
Isaac Inegbenehi says
No
Oyinkansola says
Pls,will we be given the novel “sweet sixteen” during our jamb registration or we should buy it ourselves ?
Isaac Inegbenehi says
You will be given… You can start reading it before Jamb registration sha
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