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WAEC Syllabus for Auto Body Repairs And Spray Painting

WAEC Syllabus for Auto Body Repairs And Spray Painting is available for all candidates who want to participate in the examination. The West African examination council (WAEC) has officially introduced a syllabus that will guide all the WAEC candidates who wish to write the WAEC examination this year. For a very successful WAEC Auto Body Repairs And Spray Painting examination for this year, you need to check out the available areas of concentration. It has been divided into sections with chapters, followed by the topics covered. Inside the below WAEC agricultural syllabus, you will also see the format of how the WAEC Auto Body Repairs And Spray Painting questions will look like. Jamb form 

There are always 3 sections to answer questions from. Paper 1 to 3 contains multiple essay questions. Where paper one (1) carries 1 hour for 40 marks.; paper two (2) carries 1½ hours for 60 marks while paper three (3) carries 3 hours, 10 minutes duration for 100 marks.


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WAEC Syllabus for Auto Body Repairs And Spray Painting

This WAEC syllabus is for both the O’level WAEC and General Certificate Examination (GCE) candidates. Final year students in the senior secondary school level and external candidates are eligible to make use of this syllabus and prepare ahead of the examination.

See the full detailed information concerning the WAEC Auto Body Repairs And Spray Painting Syllabus below.

 SCHEME OF EXAMINATION

 

There will be three papers, Papers 1, 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.WAEC Syllabus for Auto Body Repairs And Spray Painting

Paper 2:           will consist of five essay questions.  Candidates will be required to answer any four in 1½ hours for 60 marks.

Paper 3:           will be a practical test of 3 hours, 10 minutes duration.  It will consist of one compulsory question for 100 marks.

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A list of materials for the test shall be made available to schools not less than two weeks before the paper is taken for material procurement and relevant preparations.

ALTERNATIVE TO PRACTICAL TEST

Alternatively, in the event that materials for the actual practical test cannot be acquired, the Council may consider testing theoretically, candidates’ level of acquisition of the practical skills prescribed in the syllabus.  For this alternative test, there will be one question to be answered in 3 hours for 100 marks. Pounds to Naira

DETAILED SYLLABUS

 

1.  

 

Safety rules and regulations in Auto body repairs and

 

 

 

 

 

 

spray painting.

1.1        Definition of safety rules and regulations in auto body repairs and spray painting.

 

1.2.     List of rules and regulations and their importance.

 

1.3      List of safety tools and equipment/machines for auto body repairs.

 

1.4       Auto body dressing code: personal protective equipment  (nose mask, goggles, boots, ear defender, etc).

 

 

 

 

 

 

1.5     Sources of accident (human factors, machinery/equipment and workshop keeping)             and their preventions.

 

1.6     Factory acts on safety rules and regulations: 1984 amended resource conservation recovery act, environmental protection agency regulations and hazardous waste collection and recycling (solvent recovery system).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1:3:1   Identification of safety tools and equipment and demonstration of their usage.

 

1:4:1   Identification of dress code and protective equipment and demonstration of their usage.

 

1:5:1 Identification of containers for hazardous waste.

1:5:2  Demonstration of horseplay.

1:5:3   Report faulty    machines/equipment

1:5:4    Demonstration of    workshop keeping e.g. cleaning oil and water from the floor with sawdust and dry sand

 

S/NO. TOPIC CONTENT PRACTICAL
2 Tools and Equipment

(a)    Basic Hand Tools

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(b)    Spray painting tools and equipment.

 

 

 

 

(c)    Care and maintenance of tools and equipment.

 

2.1    Types of hand tools. (hammers,          dollies, spanner, files,          ratchets, body spoons, etc) and their uses.

 

2.2    Types and uses of power tools

and  equipment/machines (drilling

machine, body jack, sanders,           air compressor, shaping machines, cutting machine, etc).

 

2.3    Advantages and disadvantages of machines.

 

2.4   Uses of machines and safety precautions.

 

2.5   Spray painting tools and equipment (scrapers, brushes,  funnels, paint pots, spray gun,   spray body filters, air compressor,          oven, spray boot, etc).

 

2.6     Definition of maintenance and types – predictive, preventive and corrective.

 

2.7     Manufacturer’s maintenance guide.

 

2.8     Maintenance of tools and equipment.

 

2:1:1    Identification of             hand tools and             equipment

 

 

2:2:1   Identification and demonstration of the use of power tools.

 

 

 

 

 

2:4:1   Demonstration of the use of the machine.

 

2:5:1   identification of spray painting tools, equipment and their uses.

 

 

 

 

 

 

2:8:1   Dismantling and            assembly of a            spray gun

2:8:2   Cleaning of  tools

and equipment

3. Materials for auto-body repairs and spray painting

(a)    Auto-body Repairs materials.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(b)     Spray painting

materials.

3.1    Types of body filler

–  plastic filler;

– fibreglass fillers;

– body solder; 30/70 and 40/60.

 

 

3.2    Type of body abrasives e.g. sandpapers, (wet and dry);

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3.3     Type of sealers e.g. rubber

sealers, seam sealers,           undercoating, etc.

 

3.4.     Rivet pins e.g. pop and            solid rivets.

 

 

 

3.5      Types of paints – Enamel paints and lacquers.

 

–     Undercoats: surface  primer,          putty/body filler, sealers.

–     Top coats:  lacquers and enamel paints.

 

3.6    Manufactures paint guide: paint formula, paint mixing equipment,          custom-mix base colours, paint labels, colour charts.

3:1:1   Identification of body fillers.

 

 

 

 

3:2:1   Identification of body abrasives.

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3:4:1   Demonstration of the use of rivet gun.

 

3:5:1   Identification of

paints by use of thinner.

 

3:5:2   Demonstration of the use of undercoats.

3:5:3    Demonstration of those of top coats.

 

3:6:1  Demonstration of           how to mix paints

 

3:6:2   Identification of                       colours using colour            chats

4. Type of metals. 4.1    Ferrous and non ferrous metals –          mild teel, cast iron, aluminium,             brass, etc.

 

4.2    Properties of metals – fusibility,

malleability, ductility, weldability,          etc.

 

4.3    Uses of metals on Autobodies. Npower Recruitment

4:1:1   Identification of ferrous and non-ferrous metals.

 

4:1:2   Demonstration of properties of metals.

 

5 Heat treatment of metals. 5.1    Definition of heat treatment.

 

5.2    Types and process of heat treatment e.g. hardening,           annealing, normalizing, case-          hardening and tempering.

5.3    Importance of heat treatment.

 

 

5:2:1   Demonstration of heat treatment processes.

6. Oxy-acetylene welding and equipment. 6.1    Definition of oxy-acetylene welding.

 

6.2    Safety precautions

 

6.3    Oxy-acetylene welding equipment. Waec Result

 

6.4    Types of oxy-acetylene gas used e.g.(high and low-pressure system).

 

 

6.5    Installations of welding equipment.

 

 

6.6    Welding nozzles.

 

 

6.7    Defects of oxy-acetylene welding – slag inclusion, porosity, crack,  lack of penetration, etc and their remedies.

 

 

 

 

 

6:3:1   Identification of equipment.

 

6:4:1  Demonstration of how to use high and low pressure system.

 

6:5:1  Demonstration of how to assemble welding equipment.

 

6:6:1  Demonstration of how to install welding equipment.

6:7:1   Identification of weld defects.

7 Auto body repair work

(a)    Minor auto body repair.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(b)    Major auto body repair.

7.1   Types of auto body

(i)  integral body;

(ii)  composite body .

 

7.2    Basic methods of straightening auto body:  aligning the metal with power jack,  pulling the metal with sledgehammer, using pre-bar, pulling the metal with pull

taps. Heat-shrinking the metal to bring the metal back to its original shape.

 

7.3     Tools used in-minor repairs-           hammers, hand dollies, spoons,           spanners, screw drivers, etc.

 

 

7.4     Major body sections e.g. front           engine compartment, passenger section, rear section

7.5    Basic alignment principle.

 

7.6    Quarter panel cutting.

 

 

 

 

7.7     Lightweight panels.

7.8     Damaged vehicle alignment.

7:1:1   Identification of integral and composite bodies.

 

7:2:1   Identification of auto-body repair tools.

7:2:2   Identification of heat shrinking tools.

 

 

 

7:3:1    Demonstration of how to use the tools in carrying out minor repairs.

7:4:1    Identification of major body sections.

 

 

 

7:6:1   Identification of quarter panel and demonstration of how to cut it.

 

7:7:1   Repair and aligning of body sections.

8. Aluminum panel repair. 8.1    Steps involved in aluminum panel repair.

8.2    Repair and alignment of damaged aluminum panel.

8.3    Aluminum deck lid repair.

8:2:1   Demonstration of how to repair and align aluminum panel.

8:3:1   Aluminum deck lid            repair procedure

 

9. Plastic repairs. 9.1    Precautions while working with plastics.

 

9.2    Types of plastic resins  (thermosetting and thermoplastic).

 

9.3    Repair of plastic parts by melting.

 

9.4    Introduction to glass fiber panel repair.

 

 

 

9:2:1   Identification of plastics.

 

 

9:3:1   Demonstration of how to repair plastics parts by melting.

 

10. Spray painting:

(a)    Spray gun and accessories.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(b)    Surface preparation.

 

 

 

(c)     Type of paints.

 

 

 

 

 

(d)   Metallic paint.

 

 

 

 

 

10.1    Spray gun – pressure feed gun siphon and the gravity gun.

 

10.2     Spray gun parts – air cap, fluid needle, air valve, trigger gun,  body, cup, etc.

 

10.3     Precautions in the use of spray gun.

 

10.4    Manufacturer’s maintenance guide.

 

10.5    Preparation of surfaces for spray painting.

 

 

 

 

10.6    Paints used on auto bodies cellulose synthetic paint, enamel paint, acrylic, metallic paints,  etc.

10.7    Importance of manufacturer’s paint code.

10.8    Special paints and their importance.

 

10.9    Variable agents (flakes and pigments).

 

10.10   Metallic spray techniques (wet and dry spray).

 

10:1:1   Identification of pressure feed gun, siphon gun and gravity gun.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10:5:1   Preparation of metal surfaces for spray painting.

 

10:6:1   Identification of paints used on auto bodies.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10:10:1   Demonstration

of metallic spray techniques.

11. Auto body workshop business. 11.1    Factors to consider in locating auto body repair shop – capital, accessibility, land, etc.

11.2    List of tools and equipment.

 

RECOMMENDED READING LIST

  1. The repair of vehicle bodies by Alan Robinson (3rd Edition).
  2. Fundamentals of vehicle body work by J. Fairbrother.
  3. Practical welding (The motivate series Mac-Milan texts for Industrial Vocational and Technical Education) by S. Gibson.
  4. Fundamentals of motor vehicle technology, chassis and body electronics (5th Edition) Book 1, 2, and 3 by Hilliers V. A. W. and David R. Rogers.
  5. Bodywork Maintenance and repair including interiors by Paul Browne.
  6. Automotive encyclopedia by Good heart-Willcox.
  7. Auto body repair and repainting by Bill Tobold.

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