Good Textbooks For Pharmacy Aspirants In Senior Secondary School (SSS)

Senior secondary school textbook

In senior secondary school, there are so many textbooks available for different subjects. However, the joint admission and matriculation board (JAMB) always gives out a list of recommended textbooks. This helps students to prepare in line with the new syllabus. Using a different textbook can make some questions look abstract. That is because those questions are curled from the recommended textbooks.

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JAMB is not the only board that recommended the textbook. The West African examination council (WAEC) and national examination council examination (NECO) are two bodies that release lists every year also. However, most of these textbooks are the same.

Each subject comes with several recommended textbooks. It will not be wise to buy and read all of them. One of two is good for each one. Students are ways to confuse the type to buy. To buy the book that is recommended by both JAMB and WAEC or buy the book that you understand and recommended by only one of the bodies. The best is to buy the one you understand better.

Since pharmacist aspirants are in the sciences, I decided to list some textbooks that have gotten reputation over the years and have constantly appeared on the JAMB list of books for a long time now.

Science Subjects In Senior Secondary School

Textbook And Their Publisher

1. Mathematics: New General Mathematics for West Africa SSS 1 to 3, Lagos: Longman. Channon, J. B. Smith, A. M (2001)

2. Civic Education: civic education for senior secondary school by Oyekunle Oyelami, Olatunde JamesAkindele- Oscar Abayomi

3. Biology: (a) College Biology by Idodo Umeh Odunfa, S.A. (2001)

(b) Essential of Biology, Ibadan: Heinemann

4. Chemistry: (a) New School Chemistry for Senior Secondary Schools, Ababio, O. Y. (2009), (Fourth edition), Onitsha: Africana FIRST Publishers Limited

(b) Calculation in Senior Secondary Chemistry by Osei Yaw AbabI Kehinde

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5. Physics: (a) New School Physics for Senior Secondary School by M.N. Anyakoha

(b)Senior Secondary School Physics, Lagos, Pacific Printers by Okeke P.N and Anyakoha M.W. (2000)

(c) College Physics 9th Edition by Hugh D. Young

6. Geography: Comprehensive Certificate Geography

7. Agricultural science: Essential Agricultural Science for Senior Secondary School by O.A. IwenaOluwo & Oduba

8. Government: Essential Government for Senior Secondary School by Dibie, C.C

10. English language: (a) New Oxford Secondary English Course S.S 2/3 2007 Edition

(b) Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary by Banjo, et al     

10. Further Mathematics: Further Mathematics Project Books 1-3 by Tuttuh Adegun et al

12. Economics: Essential Economics for Senior Secondary Schools by C. E Ande