WAEC Syllabus for Technical Drawing & Textbooks 2024/2025

The WAEC syllabus for Technical Drawing is the topic you must study to sit for the examination. It contains the aims and objectives, notes and format for the Technical Drawing exam.

Studying the Technical Drawing subject is necessary for your exam preparation. It will serve as a guide for you to know the topics to read. There are also notes on concepts you should pay attention to learning.

Exam preparations without using the Technical Drawing are like going to the farm without your agricultural tools. You will end up not being productive.

Ensure you begin your exam preparations using the syllabus.

This post contains the Technical Drawing and recommended textbooks of the West African Examination Council (WAEC).

WAEC Technical Drawing

SCHEME OF EXAMINATION

There will be three papers, Papers1, 2 and 3 all of which must be taken. Papers 1 and 2 will be a composite paper to be taken at one sitting.

PAPER 1: will consist of forty multiple-choice objective questions all of which are to be answered in 1 hour for 40 marks. The paper will consist of two sections, Sections A and B as follows:

Section A will consist of thirty questions drawn from the general principles, techniques and uses of plane and solid geometry.

Section B will consist of ten questions in each of two alternative parts: Part I (Building Drawing) and Part II (Mechanical Drawing). Candidates will be required to answer questions in one part only.

PAPER 2: will consist of five essay questions on plane, solid and vector geometry.      Candidates will be required to answer any three of the questions in1¾ hours for 60 marks.

PAPER 3: will consist of two sections, Sections A and B to be taken in 2¾ hours for 100 marks.

Section A will consist of three questions requiring sketches of objects, components, symbols and tools used in the Building and Mechanical industries. One of the questions will be compulsory.

Candidates will be required to answer the compulsory question for 20 marks and one of the other questions for 10 marks. The section will require 45 minutes.

Section B will consist of two questions: one on Building Drawing and the other, on Mechanical Drawing. Candidates will be required to answer only one of the questions in 2 hours for 70 marks.

WAEC Technical Drawing Syllabus

DETAILED SYLLABUS

PLANE GEOMETRY

S/NO.	CONTENTS	NOTES
1	Drawing materials and equipment, types of drawing and applications	Standard size drawing A2 ISO board and drawing sheet, set squares, drawing instruments, protractor and  T-square.
2	Lines, lettering and dimensioning	Types of lines and their uses.  Types and styles of lettering, title blocks and borderlines. These should conform to BS 1192 and BS 308A.
3	Division of lines and its applications	Dividing into a given number of equal parts or proportion and other simple exercises involving mathematical problems.
4	Scales and their uses	Plain and diagonal scales, constructions and their applications, including scale of chords.
5	Angles	Types and their constructions.
6	Triangles, quadrilaterals and other polygons	Regular and irregular polygons: properties and their constructions.
7	Circles	Parts, types, properties and their constructions.
8	Tangents and tangency	Construction and application of principles of tangency to spanners, anchors and other tools.
9	Inscribed, circumscribed and escribed figures	Definitions, identification and their constructions.
10	Similar figures and areas	Enlargement and reduction by area and side.
11	Loci	Definition and construction of the straight line, circle, ellipse, parabola, hyperbola, helix, trochoids (inferior and superior) spiral, cycloid, hypocycloid, involutes and link mechanisms.
SOLID GEOMETRY
12	Lines in space and planes	Location of points and lines in space.  True length and angle of inclination of a line. Intersecting lines, plane relationships and traces.Types of planes and edge views of planes.
13	Pictorial drawing: isometric, oblique, perspective	Isometric scales and circles, oblique scales and curves. One and two points perspective, including freehand sketching.
14	Orthographic projection	Multiplane,1st and 3rd angle projection.
15	Auxiliary projections	Prisms, cones, cylinder, cube, pyramid (right and oblique), including second auxiliary projection.
16	Sectional views and true shapes	The true shape of sections of prisms, cylinders pyramids and cones, (ellipse, parabola, hyperbola, circle and triangle).
17	Development of surfaces	Surfaces of right and oblique pyramids, prisms, cylinders, cones and their truncated parts and frustum.Transition pieces.
18	Intersection /Interpenetration	Intersections of cylinders, cones, prisms and pyramids.
SYMBOLS AND CONVENTIONS
19	Symbols and conventions used in plane and solid geometry	For example, the symbol used to indicate the diameter of a circle.

VECTOR GEOMETRY

S/N	CONTENTS	NOTES
20	Forces:co-planer,con-current and parallel	Graphical determination of resultant, using Bow’s notation. Equilibrant and reaction using triangle and polygon of forces.
21	Simple framed structure	Determination of reactions and internal forces of members and nature of forces.
22	Shearing force and bending moment  diagrams	Simple supported beams and cantilevers with concentrated and uniformly distributed loads.
23	Centre of gravity of lamina	Simple geometrical shapes.

NOTE: Vector Geometry is for candidates in Ghana only and will be examined in Paper 2.

BUILDING DRAWING

The recommendations of the current BS 1192 (metric) should be followed.

S/NO.	CONTENT	NOTES
1	Freehand sketching and identification of building tools	Both pictorial and orthographic sketches of building tools.
2	Foundations and Floors	Types and parts of foundations and floors.
3	Openings – windows, doors and arches	Types and parts of doors, windows and arches.
4	Stairs and staircases	Parts and types of staircases.
5	Roofs	Types and parts of roofs.
6	Constructional details of parts of buildings	Includes wall, column, beam, lintel, etc.
7	Working drawings of buildings	Orthographic projections and sectional views.
8	Building materials, freehand sketching, symbols and conventions	Including electrical and plumbing fittings.

MECHANICAL DRAWING

The recommendations of the current BS 308A (metric) should be followed.

S/NO.	CONTENT	NOTES
1	Freehand sketching and identification  of mechanical tools	Both pictorial and orthographic sketches of mechanical tools.
2	Dimensioning	Limits and fits, allowances, tolerances; emphasis on correct techniques.
3	Screw threads, fasteners and locking devices	Include conventional representation, construction and their applications.
4	Sectioning	Full,half-part,offset,broken,removed,aligned andrevolved.
5	Pictorial drawing	Isometric and oblique drawing; including freehand sketching.
6	Working and assembly drawing.	Orthographic and sectional views.
7	Symbols, conventions and abbreviations	Include electrical and plumbing fittings and welding symbols.

LIST OF RECOMMENDED TEXTBOOKS

S/N	TEXT BOOKS	AUTHORS	PUBLISHERS
1	TECHNICAL DRAWING FOR SCHOOL CERTIFICATE AND G.C.E (Metric Edition)	J.N GREEN	SPECTRUM BOOKS
2	ENGINEERING DRAWING with worked examples  1 & 2(3rd edition)	M.A PARKER AND F.PICKUP	NELSON THORNS LTD
3	GEOMETRIC AND ENGINEERING DRAWING	K.MORLING
4	GEOMETRIC AND TECHNICAL DRAWING	A.YARWOOD	ELBS with NELSON
5	FOUNDATION OF TECHNICAL DRAWING	A.PARKISON
6	TECHNICAL DRAWING with Mechanical Engineering & Drawing option	W.E.KUDOR