Use this table as your complete Economics checklist. It includes all 23 numbered topics and their core contents from the current JAMB IBASS syllabus.

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Table of Contents

Complete JAMB Economics topics at a glance

No.	Official topic	Subtopics to cover
1	Economics as a science	Wants, scarcity, choice, preference, opportunity cost, rationality, production, distribution, consumption, basic economic problems, efficiency and PPF.
2	Economic systems	Free enterprise, centrally planned and mixed economies; solutions to economic problems and contemporary Nigerian reforms.
3	Methods and tools of economic analysis	Inductive/deductive and positive/normative reasoning; tables, charts, graphs, mean, median, mode, range, variance and standard deviation.
4	The theory of demand	Meaning, determinants, schedules, curves, changes, demand types, price/income/cross elasticity and applications.
5	The theory of consumer behaviour	Utility, indifference curves, budget lines, diminishing marginal utility, equilibrium, income/substitution effects and consumer surplus.
6	The theory of supply	Meaning, determinants, schedules, curves, changes, supply types and elasticity.
7	The theory of price determination	Market, price system, equilibrium, price legislation, supply/demand changes and linear equations.
8	The theory of production	Production types, TP/AP/MP, variable proportions, division of labour, scale, production functions, isoquant-isocost, equilibrium and productivity.
9	Theory of costs and revenue	Fixed, variable, total, average and marginal costs; total, average and marginal revenue; accounting/economic cost and short/long run.
10	Market structures	Perfect competition, monopoly, discriminatory monopoly, monopolistic competition, equilibrium, break-even and shutdown.
11	National income	GDP, GNP, NI, NNP, measurement, limitations, circular flow, consumption, investment, savings, multiplier and equilibrium income.
12	Money and inflation	Types/functions of money, demand/supply, quantity theory, value, price level, inflation, deflation, measurement, effects and control.
13	Financial institutions	Types/functions, development role, money/capital markets, regulation, money creation, monetary policy and Nigerian challenges.
14	Public finance	Objectives, fiscal policy, revenue, taxation, incidence, expenditure, budgets, public debt, revenue allocation and resource control.
15	Economic growth and development	Meaning, indicators, factors, Nigerian development problems and planning.
16	Agriculture in Nigeria	Types, features, development role, problems, policies and income instability.
17	Industry and industrialisation	Location/localisation, strategies, development role, funding, management and firm size.
18	Natural resources and the Nigerian economy	Major resources, oil/non-oil contributions, linkages, upstream/downstream activities, NNPC, OPEC and exploitation challenges.
19	Business organisations	Private/public enterprises, ownership forms, problems, finance, management, size, privatisation and commercialisation.
20	Population	Meaning, theories, census, size, growth, structure, distribution, policy and development.
21	International trade	Absolute/comparative costs, balance of trade/payments, corrective measures, Nigeria’s trade and exchange rates.
22	International economic organisations	ECOWAS, AU, EU, ECA, IMF, EEC, OECD, World Bank/IBRD, WTO, ADB and UNCTAD.
23	Factors of production and their theories	Types, features, rewards, wages, interest, profit, marginal productivity, liquidity preference, mobility, efficiency and unemployment.

How to prepare effectively

Divide Economics into concepts, diagrams, calculations and Nigerian applications. For every graph, learn the axes, curve movement, cause and effect. For every calculation, state the formula and interpret the final figure. For every Nigerian topic, connect theory to institutions and policies without depending on changing headlines.