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Westminster College sets its entry standards at a level which should enable the motivated students to achieve a wide range of Cambridge G.C.S.E
and West African Senior School Certificate Examination results at grades A to C. There is increasing pressure every where in the academic world for exam success and, at Westminster College, our organizational ability will continue to make us successful in helping students of a wide range of ability to achieve their optimum potential. The college aims at a more subtle and long lasting academic achievements. The pursuit of academic success should be seen by students as a voyage of discovery with great potentials for excitement as well as profit. Students are taught how to learn and to take pride in their performance. Once enthusiasm is generated, achievement is not far behind. The curriculum is under constant review. In the lower school, that is the Junior Secondary (JS 1-3) it broadly follows the National Curriculum and the Cambridge G.C.S.E. But the College reserves the rights to upgrade it's academic programme from time to time.
In the first three years all students follow a common curriculum of:
- English Language
Mathematics
Integrated Science
Home Economics
Agriculture
French
Fine Art
Music
Introductory Technology (Intro Tech)
Literature in English
Religious Studies
Information Technology (Computer Science)
Physical and Health Education
Social Studies
- Yoruba, Hausa or Igbo
At the end of the third year, students choose Nine subjects from a broad and generous range of options which are followed to Cambridge G.C.S.E and West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination
leading to Cambridge Advance level GCE
Subjects for WASCE/Cambridge G.C.S.E/NEC
- Mathematics
- English Language
- Biology
- Physics
- Chemistry
- Further Mathematics
- Agriculture
- Economics
- Home Economics (Foods and Nutrition)
- Literature in English
- Yoruba
- Fine Art
- Technical Drawing
- Government
- History
- Principles of Accounts
- Geography
- Religious Studies
- Music
- Commerce
All Students have courses in computer, Physical Education and aspects of personal and social development.
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