Six years, forty periods a week, one examination that asks for all of it.
Ultimate Secondary is a day school in Ikeja for JSS1 through SS3. Science, arts and commercial streams from SS1, taught by subject specialists in the rooms the subjects need.
SS2 Science, as timetabled
Not a sample. This is the shape of the week a student in the science stream sits, with the double periods where the practicals are.
| Period | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18:00 | English | Mathematics | English | Mathematics | English |
| 28:45 | Mathematics | Physics | Mathematics | Chemistry | Mathematics |
| 39:30 | Chemistry practical | Biology | Physics practical | Further Maths | Biology |
| 410:15 | Chemistry | Geography | Physics | Biology | Civic Education |
| —11:00 | Break | ||||
| 511:30 | Physics | English | Chemistry | Physics | Further Maths |
| 612:15 | Biology | Further Maths | Geography | English | Games |
Scroll the grid for Thursday and Friday
Two doubles a week per science subject, because a practical that has to be packed away at the bell is a demonstration.
Choosing at the end of JSS3
Three streams, chosen once, and the choice is made with a form teacher who has taught the student for three years — not from a list on a noticeboard.
- Science
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Physics, Chemistry, Biology, with Further Mathematics for those who will need it. Two laboratories, and a technician who prepares them — the reason practicals happen in the week they are timetabled.
Goes on to: medicine, engineering, the sciences.
- Arts
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Literature, Government, History, CRS or IRS, with Yoruba or French. The debating society is not an extracurricular here; it is where the Government syllabus is argued rather than recited.
Goes on to: law, the humanities, international relations.
- Commercial
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Financial Accounting, Commerce, Economics. Taught with the ledgers and the statements, so a student who leaves at SS3 can keep a set of books, and one who goes on has met the vocabulary already.
Goes on to: accountancy, business, economics.
Admissions
Entry is at JSS1 and, where places exist, at SS1. The entrance examination is in English and Mathematics, and it is written here on a Saturday morning in the second term.
Every candidate who sits it is seen with a parent afterwards, whatever the result. A school that admits a child should be able to say why, and one that does not should be able to say that too.
Visit
22 Oduduwa Crescent, GRA IkejaLagos
+234 800 000 0001
admissions@ultimate.example