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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. 10 Facts About The Life Changer (Jamb Novel)
2. The Life Changer Chapter 1 Summary
3. The Life Changer Chapter 1 Likely Jamb Questions
4. Meaning & Synonyms of Words in Chapter 1
5. The Life Changer Summary & Questions (Chapter 1 to Chapter 9)
6. Chapter 2 Highlights
7. The Life Changer Chapter 2 Likely Jamb Questions
8. Meaning Of Words Used in Chapter 2
9. Chapter 3 To Chapter 5 Highlights
10. The Life Changer Chapter 3 Likely Questions
11. Life Changer Chapter 4 Likely Questions
12. Chapter 5 Notes & Highlights
13. The Life Changer Chapter 5 Likely Questions
14. Meaning of Words/Sentences Used in Chapter 5
15. Chapter 6 to Chapter 9 Highlights
16. The Life Changer Chapter 6 Hot Questions
17. Notes & Highlights From Chapter 7
18. The Life Changer Chapter 7 Likely Jamb Questions
19. Chapter 8 Summary And Notes
20. The Life Changer Chapter 8 Likely Questions
21. Sentences, Words & Meanings in Chapter 8
22. The Life Changer Chapter 9 Likely Questions
23. Meaning of Words/Sentences in Chapter 9

Ten (10) Facts About The Life Changer (Jamb Novel)

It was written by Khadija Abubakar Jalli.
It has 9 Chapters and 79 pages.
It is based on Campus Life.
The story is centered around Salma and Experiences.
The Author studied Mathematics Education and is the CEO of Boutique Afrique.
The Author dedicated the book to her 5 children; Zahra, Najwa, Basma, Sodiq and Farha.
The Storyteller (Ummi) first child was Omar (18 years), the second child was Teemah, the third was Jamila and the last born was Bint (5 years).
The admission gained by Omar was The Life Changer and that’s where the name of the novel is coined.
The novel is full of grammar, especially in Chapter One.
You can finish the Life changer Novel in less than 4 hours.

The Life Changer Chapter One Summary
This was the story, Bint’s Teacher (Mallam Salihu) asked the class how to say Good morning in French. The class was silent until Bint answered that Good morning in french is Bonjour. Bint then asked the teacher, how do we say very good in French? The Teacher could not answer.

To ensure he doesn’t mislead the pupils, Mallam Salihu went out to call the French teacher who answered the question; C’est tres bien means very good in French. Bint looked at the French teacher who answered the Question in admiration.

The Pupils surround Bint and started clapping and singing going around her because she asked a question the teacher could not answer.
The mom then entered the room to join them and the conversation got animated (Full of life, exciting, lively). Ummi claimed that it was better for the teacher to call someone else than to give the wrong answer. However, Bint didn’t agree. According to Bint, the teaching claims he knows too much.

Ummi then said, what if the teacher had told you that au revoir means very good? Meanwhile, it is how to say goodbye until we meet again in French?
While they were still gisting, Omar came in to break the news that he has been given admission to study Study Law at the Kongo Campus of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.

The mom was very happy about the admission and also considering the fact that Omar’s dad had the dream to study Law but didn’t work out. Ummi then told Omar that Admission is THE LIFE CHANGER. That is where the name of the Novel The Life changer by Khadija Abubakar Jalli was gotten.

Note The Following in Chapter One:

1. The room was hot in chapter one because No light for two days and the generator needed repair
2. Teemah sells Zobo
3. Until now, he had been ensconced in this Lafayette community
4. Omar and Teemah were cat and rat
5. Admission is a life changer; it changes you and your life
Note: You can pass Jamb even if you don’t read the Novel. However, you won’t score very high under use of English.

The Life Changer Chapter One Likely Jamb Questions
1. What is the full name of the author of the Life Changer?
Answer: Khadija Abubakar Jalli

2. Why did the mother pause to listen to their conversation?
Answer: Because there was something about the laugher that drew her attention

3. Why were the other sisters laughing very hard?
Answer: The 5-year-old younger one was telling them stories

4. She was telling her two sisters the story of her classroom encounter with their meddlesome Social Studies teacher.
Which other word can replace meddlesome as used in the novel?
Answer: Interfering

5. They were waiting for dad, why?
Answer: He is a banker, he closes by 5 pm and gets home late.

6. How old was Bint when she was narrating the story?
Answer: 5 years old.

7. How do you say Good Morning in French?”
Answer: Bonjour

8. How do you say that’s very good in French?
Answer: C’est tres bien

9. How do you say that’s very good in French, Aunty?” Bint asked reverentially.
Question: Which other word can replace reverentially as used in the passage?
Answer: Respectfully, In admiration

10. Why did the students surround Bint and started clapping and singing going around her
Answer: Because she asked a question the teacher could not answer

11. The following are reasons the mom (Ummi) goes into their room… Ummi – (Arabic) when translated means mummy too.

1. To question them about neatness
2. To keep them company
12. Who was Bint’s elder sister?
Answer: Jamila

13. Who was the first child?
Answer: Omar (the only male)

14. Who was Bint’s Teacher?
Answer: Mallam Salihu

15. How do you say goodbye until we meet again in French?
Answer: au revoir

16. When our conversation got that animated…. Means?
Answer: Full of life, exciting, lively

17. Omar Gained admission to study at where?
Answer: Study Law at the Kongo Campus of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.

18. According to Omar, what’s stopping Teemah from growing tall?
Answer: Plain Jealousy, Envy

19. What was the first question the teacher asked?
Answer: Who can tell me how to say good morning in French?

20. I found myself laughing silently. On what occasion did this happen?
Answer: Ummi laughed silently at Bint’s story; when Bint said “I got them” as they hailed her in class for asking a question that the teacher couldn’t answer.

21. Omar asked, how will admission change me? What was Ummi’s answer?
Answer: I can’t categorically tell how it will change you, but how my admission changed me. Admission can change you and change your life.

22. How did Admission change Ummi’s life
Answer: It exposed her to a lot of experiences in school, she learnt to tolerate, not to judge people too early, not to answer a question until she is asked. She also had sad and sweet experiences. Dealing with the Fact that the dad wants her to marry before graduation, coping with school as a married woman.

Meaning & Synonyms of Words in Chapter One

1. Meddlesome – Obstructive, active to know everything
2. Didactic – intended to teach, instructive, educational.
3. animated – Full of life, exciting, lively
4. spontaneity – the flow of the discussion
5. ululated – howl or wail as an expression of strong emotion
6. providence – fate, nemesis, destiny
7. But those belligerent sisters of yours -hostile and aggressive, threatening
8. bickering – argue about petty and trivial matters.
9.Omar turned to look balefully at me – Harmful or malignant in intent or effect
10.My life before marriage had always been one dreary thing after another – depressingly dull and bleak or repetitive.
11.What do you mean by that immodest remark?- lacking humility or decency.
12.She stopped taunting him – Stopped Interrupting him
13. …he paused to look empathically at me – The ability to sense the emotions, feelings, and reactions intellectually
14. It means I am at one with members of the intelligentsia – intellectuals or highly educated people as a group, scholars
15. Chortle – Laugh in a noisy, gleeful way.
16. chuckle – to laugh inwardly or quietly
17. mirthful – full of mirth; merry or amusing.
18. eavesdrop – to secretly listen to conversation
19. surreptitiously – secretively
20. vivid – clear, realistic, authentic
21. meddlesome – interfering
22. Trepidation – Fear
23. Hesitatingly – To pause or wait in uncertainty. (Hesitatingly, not without Trepidation, Bint raised her hand)

The Life Changer Summary & Questions (Chapter 1 to Chapter 9)

The Whole Novel is Summarized in the Videos Below, Watch it after reading all this summary for better Understanding.



Chapter Two Highlights
University as a Life Changer.
Salma Mohamad’s beauty.
The queue for Registration at the University.
The young lecturer and Salma.
Ummi collecting Matriculation number at the HOD’S Office (Samuel Johnson PhD).
The Quiet Neighbour (Talle).

Note the Following from Chapter Two
1. University students are carefree
2. You don’t wear uniforms at the university (except law, social works and very few)
3. Ummi Ahmad was the full name of the Story teller
4. According to Salma, If you are a boy they ask you for money, and if you are a girl they ask you for a date
5. Ummi’s matriculation number was UG0001
6. Never judge a book by it’s cover.
7. The storyteller believes you shouldn’t say things you are not asked.

The Life Changer Chapter Two Likely Jamb Questions
The Story of Ummi and university as a life changer.

1. What was Salma’s Physical appearance?
Answer: Salma was a fair complexioned girl, tall, slim and rather busty.

2. What does Selma believe about Lecturers?
Answer: University Lecturers take money from boys and ask girls on a date

3. Why was the HOD close to Ummi
Answer: She knows her husband very well and was even the one who worked her admission.

4. Why was the People of Lafayette happy?
Answer: Because their daughter Ummi was going to the University.

5. What was the first thing that struck Ummi in school?
Answer: The carefree attitude of University students.

6. According to Ummi, when should you call someone dear
Answer: Only when they mean something to you.

7. After registration, when did Salma and Ummi meet again?
Answer: A few months later

8. Describe the Secretary to the HOD
Answer: She was busy hitting at the computer, a very focused person and a woman of few words.

9. What did Ummi and her husband conclude?
Answer: The recalcitrant male will also misbehave irrespective of what the woman wears.

10. What tribe and religion was the HOD, Dr Samuel Johnson.
Answer: Christian and Yoruba Man.

Meaning Of Words Used in Chapter Two

1. The young men around were openly ogling —stair, look lustfully
2. Ineptitude of the registration officers — lack of skill or ability.
3. I just find your allegation a trifle sweeping – treat someone in a way that lacks proper respect or seriousness.
4. I found his endearing salutation slightly discomforting – inspiring affection.
5.The kind of things I heard Salma say about university lecturers filled me with foreboding – a feeling that something bad will happen; fearful apprehension.
6.I developed an instant, irrepressible feeling of claustrophobia – an irrational fear of confined spaces.
7.The recalcitrant male would always misbehave irrespective of what the woman wears – having an obstinately uncooperative attitude towards authority or discipline.
8.I could not make head or tail of what he was blabbering about – Could not make of meaning out of it.
9. He was buried in the file before him – he was busy checking the file
10. I was genuinely angry with this surreptitious overture – a secret approach

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