Mastering English With Ease

  Tips on How to Pass English In WASSCE & NECO Examinations – Essay/Letter Writing                        (Part 2)   Continued from Part 1     Organisation (Continued)   Essay Writing: -          If you are writing an essay, you only need to write the topic boldly, and go straight to present your points (as the body) taking note of the followings: (i)                 Each of your essay points or ideas should be presented in a paragraph; (ii)              The paragraphs should link each other with conjunctions such as ‘but’, ‘also’, ‘however’, ‘furthermore’, moreover’, ‘finally’, etc, so that your write-up will flow logically and coherently. Debate Writing: -          I...

  Tips on How to Pass English In WASSCE & NECO Examinations – Essay/Letter Writing (Part 1)                  With the rescheduled West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for 2020 (which was earlier postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic) now fast approaching, and the National Examination Council (NECO) following, it has become necessary to provide some tips/guidelines on how to excel in the English Language papers, especially for our candidate readers and parents/guardian readers.            This special edition will be presented in three parts to help in passing the three most difficult parts of the English Language subject, namely: (1) Essay/Letter Writing, (2) Comprehension and (3) Summary.   Let us now start with the first part: ESSAY/LETTER WRITING OR COMPOSITION Instructions:   Read the instruction(s) before you ever attempt any question. ...

NEFT, NIP, NIBSS, MICR and Other Banking Acronyms “When doing online banking transactions, I am often asked to use the option of NEFT or NIP.   I do not know the meaning of these two abbreviations, and would therefore, appreciate your explanation of them in your blog”.   This was an enquiry from one of the readers of our blog, recently.                   Ordinarily, the above enquiry ought to have been directed to bankers, but owing to the fact that this blog is a forum for interactive teaching, the required explanations on NEFT, NIP and other banking acronyms are provided hereunder: N E F T:      NEFT simply stands for National Electronic Funds Transfer.   It is a payment system usually used nation-wide, for facilitating one-to-one funds transfer.   With this system, one bank account holder can transfer funds electronically from one bank branch to another account holde...

Meaning of COVID-19 and Highlights of Associated Myth Busters           A reader of this blog recently asked to know the full meaning of COVID-19, saying he was confused that some persons called the current global pandemic ‘Coronavirus’ while others call it ‘COVID-19’.           Being an interactive blog, but without any claim of medical expertise, let it be amplified here that the acronym COVID-19 stands for Corona Virus Disease of 2019 .   The acronym was given by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in a press conference on February 11, 2020.    The disease started in Wuhan, China, in the late part of 2019, and has since spread globally.           Regarding the choice of the acronym COVID-19, the Director-General of WHO said that under agreed guidelines between WHO, the World Organisation for Animal Health and the Food and A...

ABBREVIATIONS & ACRONYMS RELATED TO GSM We now live in a computer age where communication is done easily and globally with the aid of the GSM cell phone.   This development has led to the coinage of some pertinent abbreviations and acronyms which we use daily without knowing or even giving thought to their meaning.   Let us now discuss such GSM-related abbreviations and acronyms in this article. GSM Meaning: GSM is derived from the words Group Special Mobile, but it is now given the universal meaning of Global System for Mobile Communication.   GSM was first developed and introduced by the European Telecommunications Standard Institute in 1991, but the technology is now being used in most parts of the world.       GSM uses cellular, a communication system that divides a geographic region into sections, called cells, and t he purpose of this division is to make the most use out of a limited number of transmission frequencies. Wi...