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 2018/2019 FUNAI POST UTME QUESTIONS

ENGLISH LANGUAGE B. dishonesty

C. modesty
Choose the word nearest in D. imitation
meaning to the underlined
words. 4. Why do prices of commodities
vary so often in Nigeria?
1. The accused student forged the
signature on the cheque. A. rise
B. fall
A. copied C. change
B. drew D. gallop
C. signed
D. imitated 5. Our new class teacher is very
brutal
2. James is afraid he could not
put up with my untidiness any A. humane
longer. B. had
C. mild
A. cover D. cruel
B. correct
C. condone 6. I looked cheerless when I
D. endure heard the ugly story.

3. Humility is a personal quality A. chair less

hardly found nowadays. B. careless
C. merry
A. dignity D. sorrowful

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Which of the following options A. angry
is the most appropriate to fill B. offended
the gap? C. surprised
D. annoyed
7. Janet is the ____ of the two
ladies BIOLOGY

A. tallest 1. Viruses are regarded as non-

B. taller living because they ___
C. more taller
D. tall A. can neither reproduce
asexually nor sexually
8. Janet is the ____ in the class. B. cannot survive in their
A. tallest respective environments
B. more taller C. do not possess characteristics
C. most taller to the next generation
D. tail D. can neither respire nor excrete

9. The students did not know ___ 2. Which of the following pairs are
University they were to visit. fully adapted to terrestrial life?

A. whose A. ferns and algae

B. what B. ferns and mosses
C. who's C. bryophyte and flowering plants
D. which D. flowering plants and conifers

10. The Provost was ____ that 3. Which of these animals is

one of his best students stole the radically symmetrical?
school money.

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A. squid D. consists of unbranched
B. hydra filaments
C. snail
D. cockroach 7. Which of the following lacks
chaetae, tentacles and antennae?
4. Which of the following has
cones? A. snail
B. crab
A. angiosperm C. millipede
B. gymnosperm D. earthworm
C. pteridophyte
D. bryophyte 8. There is incomplete
metamorphosis in the
5. For effective functioning of a
bird's quill feather, it hooks firm A. butterfly
on the ridges of the B. grasshopper
C. mosquito
A. vane D. housefly
B. rachis
C. barbules 9. Fishes are cold-blooded
D. barbs because their body temperature is
____
6. Which of the following is NOT
true of spirogyra? A. constantly low
B. constantly high
A. reproduces by conjugation C. dependent on that of their
B. reproduces by fragmentation surroundings
C. consists of branched filaments D. regulated at will

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10. When the original king and A. Adding iron fillings to aerated
queen of termites dies, they are water
replaced by ____ B. Adding sodium metal water
C. Cooling a solution of iron (II)
A. the king and queen of another sulphate to obtain the hydrated
colony salt.
B. some adult reproductive from D. Cooling malty lb, obtain ice
the same colony E. Burning the gas for cooking
C. some adult workers which are
specially fed to breed 3. 0.1 Faraday of electricity was
D. developing nymphs nurtured passed through a solution of
as secondary reproductive. copper (II) sulphate. The
maximum weight of copper
CHEMISTRY deposited on the cathode would
be [Cu = 64]
1. Which of following metals
cannot replace hydrogen from A. 64.0g
water or stream? B. 32.0g
C. 16.0g
A. sodium D. 6.4g
B. Magnesium E. 3.2g
C. Iron
D. Calcium 4. Bronze is an alloy of ____
E. Copper.
A. Copper, zinc and nickel
2. Which of the following changes B. Aluminium and copper
is physical? C. Copper and zinc
D. Tin and zinc
E. Tin and copper

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5. Starch can be converted to A. dissolve in alkalis
ethyl alcohol by B. reacts violently with hydrogen
without heating
A. Distillation C. displace each other from
B. Fermentation solutions their salts
C. Isomerization D. are gases
D. Cracking E. are liquids
E. Cooking
8. When air is compressed, ____
6. Pick out the correct statement
A. Its density decreases
A. Zinc heated to redness reacts B. It solidifies
with steam to give oxygen and C. Its temperature decreases
zinc oxide D. Its temperature increases
B. Zinc heated to redness reacts E. Its temperature remains
with steam to give oxygen and unchanged.
hydrogen
C. Zinc does not react with hot or 9. Which of the following is
cold water formed when maltose reacts with
D. Zinc reacts with hot water to concentrated tetraoxosulphate
form zinc oxide and hydrogen (vi) acid?
E. Zinc reacts very easily with
cold water to give zinc oxide and A. Carbon (iv) oxide
hydrogen B. Coal tar
C. Charcoal
7. chlorine, bromine and iodine D. Toxic fumes
resemble each other in that all E. None of the above
____

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10. A property of a colloidal A. 324N
dispersion which a solution does B. 162N
not have is ____ C. 121N
D. 81N
A. the Tyndall effect
B. homogeneity 3. I. The frictional force is
C. osmotic pressure independent of the area of the
D. surface polarity surfaces in contact
II. The frictional for depends on
PHYSICS the nature of the surface in
contact
1. A catapult used to hold a stone III. The frictional force depends
of mass 500g is extended by on the speed of sliding
20cm with applied force F. If the IV. The frictional force is directly
stone leaves with a velocity of proportional to the normal
40m/s, the value of F is___ reaction.

A. 4.0 x 104N Which combination of the above is

B. 4.0 x 103N true of sliding friction?
C. 2.0 x 103N
D. 4.0 x 102N A. I, II and IV
B. I, II and III
2. A handbag containing some C. I, III and IV
load weighing 162N is carried by D. II, III and IV
two students each holding the
handle of the bag next to him. If 4. When a ship sails from salt
each handle is pulled 60˚ to the water into fresh water, the
vertical, find the force each fraction of its volume above the
student's arm. water surface will ____

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A. remain the same III. it has constant acceleration
B. increase directed away from the centre
C. decrease IV. The centripetal force is
D. increase then decrease directed towards the centre.

5. A simple pendulum has a Which combination of the above is

period of 17.0s. When the length true of a body in a circular track?
is shortened by 1.5m, its period is
8.5s; calculate the original length A. I and III
of the pendulum. B. I and IV
C. II and III
A. 1.55m D. II and IV
B. 2.0m
C. 3.0m 8. The velocity v of a particle in a
D. 4.0m time t is given by the equation v
= 10t2 + 2t. Find the
6. At a fixed point below a liquid instantaneous acceleration after
surface, the pressure downward is 5s.
P1 and the pressure upward is P2.
it can be deduced that___ A. 10m/s
B. 15m/s
A. P1 = P2 C. 20m/s
B. P1 > P2 D. 60m/s
C. P1 < P2
D. P1 > P2 9. If the force and the velocity on
a system are each reduced
7. I. its velocity is constant simultaneously by half, the power
II. no work is done on the body of the system is _____

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A. doubled the curved surface area of the
B. constant cylinder?
C. reduced to a quarter
D. reduced by half A. 15cm3
B. 30cm3
10. The velocity ration of a C. 616cm3
machine is 5 and its efficiency is D. 1262cm3
75%. What effort would be
needed to lift a load of 15N with 3. Convert 4486 to denary
the machine?
A. 47610
A. 50N B. 76410
B. 40N C. 17610
C. 30N D. 11210
D. 20N
4. If the shadow of a pole 7m
MATHEMATICS high is its length, what is the
angle of elevation of the sun?
1. A right pyramid on a base 6m
square is 18m high. Find the A. 90°
volume of the pyramid B. 63°
C. 60°
A. 1131m3 D. 26°
B. 678.6m3
C. 81.7m3 5. The bearing of a point x from a
D. 339.3m3 point y is 74°. What is the bearing
of y from x?
2. The volume of a cylinder of
radius 14cm is 210cm3. What is A. 106°

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B. 148° A. 10
C. 164° B. 6
D. 254° C. 5
D. 7
6. A varies inversely as the
square root of B. if A = 1.and B = 9. The sum of the roots of a
1/6, find B when A = 1/8 quadratic equation is 5/2 and the
product of its roots is 4. The
A. 10.7 quadratic equation is ____
B. 15.6
C. 3.2 A. 2x2 + 5x + 8 = 0
D. 4.6 B. 2x2 - 5x + 8 = 0
C. 2x2 - 8x + 5 = 0
7. The lengths of the sides of a D. 2x2 - 8x - 5 = 0
right-angle triangle are (3x
+1)cm, (3x - 1)cm and xcm. Find 10. Find the range of the following
x. fraction 1/6, 1/3, 3/2, 2/3, 8/9
and 4/3
A. 0
B. 6 A. 5/6
C. 18 B. 3/4
D. 12 C. 4/3
D. 7/6
8. Given two sets x and y, n(x) =
15 and n(y)= 10. The universal
set = 20. Find the value of
n(A∩B) (i.e. the smallest possible
value).

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ANSWERS TO AE FUNAI
2018/2019 POST-UTME CBT
QUESTIONS

ENGLISH LANGUAGE

1. D 2. D 3. C 4. C 5. D 6. D 7. B
8. A 9. D 10. C

BIOLOGY

1. A 2. D 3. B 4. B 5. C 6. B 7. B
8. B 9. C 10. D

CHEMISTRY

1. E 2. D 3. E 4. D 5. B 6. D 7. C
8. D 9. C 10. A

PHYSICS

1. D 2. D 3. D 4. B 5. C 6. C 7. A
8. A 9. A 10. B

MATHEMATICS

1. B 2. B 3. C 4. B 5. D 6. A 7. D
8. C 9. B 10. C

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 2017/2018 FUNAI POST UTME QUESTIONS (Day 1)

1. Which state in Nigeria did 5. Which year was federal

EBOLA First start? university or Ndufu Alike Ikwo
was founded?

A. Lagos
A. 2011
B. Kaduna
B. 20l6
C. Kano
C. 2015
D. Calabar
D. 2013

2. Who discovered electricity?

6. Which sentence is correct in
the following
A. Andrew Ampere
B. Faraday Michael
A. You have come home so you
C. Thomas Edison
help your mother in lime
D. Benjamin Franklin
B. You have to come on time so
as to help your mother
3. Simplify 52.4 − 5.7 − 1.75
C. You have to come and help
your mother
A. 34.5
D. You has to come home on time
B. 44.95
so as to help your mother
C. 50.45

7. Their father____ when they

4. Who was the first executive
were little.
president of Nigeria?

A. ran off
A. Alhaji Abubakar Tafawa Balewa
B. ran upon
B. Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe
C. ran up
C. Mohamaudu Buhari
D. ran of
D. Alhaji Shehu Shagari

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8. The man works in LONDON

A. does the man work in Lagos?

B. who works in London?
C. does the man stay in London?
D. does the man work for
London?

9. The range of the data k+2, k-

3, k+4. k-2, k-5, k+3, k-1 and
k+6 is

A. 9
B. 11
C. 7
D. 8

10. Which country is Sydney

located?

A. Australian
B. United States of America
C. U.K
D. New Zealand

DAY 1 ANSWERS

1. A 2. D 3. B 4. D 5. D 6. A 7. A
8. A 9. B 10. D

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 2017/2018 FUNAI POST UTME QUESTIONS (Day 2)

1. The capital of Germany is 4. She is known for her bizarre

____. dressing.

A. Bonu A. Natural
B. Berlin B. weird
C. Hamburg C. obsolete
D. Bremen D. odious

2. The first capital of Nigeria is 5. The workers tightened their

_____. hold on the capital.

A. Calabar A. they controlled the capital

B. Lagos more strictly
C. Abuja B. they held onto other workers in
D. Kaduna the capital.
C. they tightened a rope round
3. Mrs. Audu always talks their capital
carelessly. D. they stretched their hold on
the capital and beyond
A. does she
B. isn't she 6. Which geopolitical zone does
C. doesn't she Nasarawa state belong to ?
D. didn't she
A. North central
Choose the word nearest in B. South central
meaning for the words C. South-south
underlined. D. South east

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7. The question that has no D. 4.5 x 103
meaning is called _____.
DAY 2 ANSWERS
A. Rhetorical question
B. Tautological question 1. B 2. A 3. C 4. A 5. A 6. A 7. A
C. useless question 8. A 9. A 10. A
D. meaningless question

8. Ebonyi state is known as

______nation.

A. salt
B. coal
C. peace
D. none of the above

9. The largest ocean in the world

is____.

A. Pacific Ocean
B. Atlantic Ocean
C. River Mississippi
D. River Niger

10. Evaluate 2700000 x 0.03 ÷

1800
A. 4.5 x 10
B. 4.5 x 101
C. 4.5 x 102

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 2017/2018 FUNAI POST UTME QUESTIONS (Day 3)

1. The different between and

A. Acton
is greater than the sum of and
B. Casino
by____.
C. Canberra
D. Redo
A. 23/28
B. 24/28 5. A man travel 200km from a
C. 50/56 point with a velocity of 20hr,
D. 27/28 calculate the time taken.

2. It_____ heavenly last night. A. 2000 sec

B. 10 sec
A. rain C. 100 sec
B. rains D. 10 hr
C. rained
D. raining 6. The first ceremonial president
of Nigeria is _____.
3. Who is the current minister of
Agriculture in Nigeria A. Alhaji Shehu Shagari
B. Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe
A. Akinwunmi Adesina C. Mohamed Buhari
B. Audu Ogbeh D. Ernest Shonekan

C. Mohamed Duru 7. I have already the picture on

D. all of the above the sitting-room wall.

4. The capital of Australian is A. hanged

_____. B. hunged

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C. hang
D. hung

8. Two young boys have been

caught with part of the stolen
machine but _____ admitted
stealing it.

A. neither of them has

B. neither of them have
C. none of them has
D. none of them have

9. In what year was Ebola

discovered in Nigeria.

A. 2011
B. 2013
C. 2014
D. 2015

10. Who was the first vice-

chancellor of federal university
Ndufu Alike Ikwo.

DAY 3 ANSWERS

1. C 2. B 3. B 4. C 5. D 6. B 7. D
8. A 9. C

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 2017/2018 FUNAI POST UTME QUESTIONS (Day 4)

1. The largest ocean in the world many years will it take to earn
is _____. ₦58000

A. Pacific Ocean A. 10 yrs. 3 month

B. Atlantic Ocean B. 11 years, 3 and half months
C. River Niger C. 12yrs
D. Indian ocean D. 15yrs

2. When did Nigeria celebrate 5. Which year was Federal

their democracy? University Ndufu Alike Ikwo was
founded ?
A. 1st October
B. 27th May A. 2011
C. 28th June B. 2012
D. 29th May C. 2013
D. 2014
3. Who is the Governor of Central
bank of Nigeria 6. Find x if log 9x =1.5

A. Godwin Emefiele A. 72.0

B. Solo Udo B. 27.0
C. Lamido Sanusi C. 36.0
D. Emeka Ike D. 3.5

4. A man saved ₦100 from his 7. Nearest in meaning question: I

salary ₦5000 each year, and he can walk that distance and have
added ₦20 to his savings. How done in many times.

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A. I am used to walk that distance 10. Nigeria became a republic in
B. I used to walk that distance _____.
C. I used to I walking that
distance A. 1960
D. I am used to walking that B. 1961
distance C. 1963
D. 1914
8. This picture is ASCRIBED to
Leonardo da Vinci. This means Day 4 Answers
that _____.
1. A 2. D 3. A 4. B 5. C 6. B 7. D
A. Leonardo da Vinci did it 8. A 9. C 10. C
B. Leonardo da Vinci might have
painted it
C. I Leonardo da Vinci definitely
painted it
D. Leonardo da Vinci did part of
the painting

9. Wada said that two of his

chickens____eggs yesterday
morning.

A. layed
B. lied
C. laid
D. lain

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 2015/2016 FUNAI POST UTME QUESTIONS

1. Njoku ______ as a mechanic D. before

when he was young, but now he E. and
is a driver.
4. If ______ one day we would
A. had been working talk about it for weeks.
B. used to work
C. would work A. a lion would be coming into
D. would have worked this room
E. had worked B. a lion was coming into this
room
2. If Ikenna performs poorly in C. lion came into this room
her forthcoming examinations, D. a lion is coming into is room
then either her mother or I E. ion is was coming into this
______to blame. room

A. must 5. When we are coming back from

B. has the picnic last Friday, there
c. will be ____on Niger bridge.
D. are
E. am A. were many traffics
B. was much traffic
3. No sooner had the examination C. were plenty of traffic
ended_____the students started D. were lots traffic
vacating the halls.
Choose the word or phrase
A. when closest in meaning to the
B. that underlined word or phrase.
C. than

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6. My friend will hate his uncle for B. benevolent
ever because he left him in the C. familiar
lurch in his hour of need. D. clear
E. crazy
A. abandon him
B. punished him 9. This is a mundane thing.
C. disrespected him
D. disinherited him A. natural
E. despised him B. secular
C. familiar
7. For all he cared, the game was D. clear
as good as lost. E. crazy

A. he did not care if the game was 10. The word caligynephobia
lost means
B. he couldn’t care less if the
game was lost A. fear of smile
C. he was almost certain that the B. fear of nudity
game would be lost C. fear of pregnancy
D. he was afraid the game would D. fear of beautiful women
be lost E. fear of being touched
E. the game was very good and
he cared very much about losing Choose the option opposite in
it meaning to the word(s) or
phrase underlined
8. Some people are naturally
belligerent. 11. The man who had been
seriously ill was convalescing at a
A. naughty sea-side resort.

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A. regaining health A. are suppose
B. deteriorating in health B. are supposed
C. recuperating C. supposed
D. relaxing hallucinating D. may suppose
E. will suppose
12. Ben will soon get to the zenith
of his cancer. 15. The passenger waited
patiently whilst they transferred
A. peak his_____ from the taxi to the bus.
B. low
C. Nadine A. properties
D. bottom B. baggages
E. foot C. baggage
D. property
13. The antonym of the word E. bagagges
verbose is?
Choose the best of the option
A. lose from the options below
B. concise
C. intractable 16. If hydrogen sulphide gas is
D. overdue treated with X a yellow deposit
E. heterodox appears If left, then X is

Choose the word/expression A. dilute sulphuric acid

which best completes each B. dilute hydrochloric acid
sentence. C. unreacted hydrogen sulphide in
water
14. You _____ to know better D. iron (III) chloride
than an illiterate farmer. E. iron I (II) solution

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17. A solid X when heated gives and 37, what is the percentage
off a brown gas. If X is soluble in composition of the isotope of
excess sodium hydroxide solution mass number 35?
but insoluble in excess
ammonium hydroxide solut1on, A. 20
then X is B. 25
C. 50
A. basic lead carbonate D. 75
B. lead (II) I trioxonitrate E. 90
C. sodium carbonate
D. zinc nitrate 20. The oxidation state of
E. sodium nitrate manganese in KMnO4 is

18. When excess ethanol is A. +1

heated to 145°c in the presence B. +3
of concentrated sulphuric acid the C. +5
product is D. +7
E. +2
A. diethyl ether
B. ethyne 21. 28.8cm3 of nitrogen at 15°c is
C. diethyl sulphate cooled to 0°c at constant
D. acetone pressure, the new volume of
E. ethanoic acid nitrogen is

19. Given the mean atomic mass A. 17.4 cm3

of chlorine prepared in the B. 14.7 cm3
laboratory to be 35.5 and C. 27.3 cm3
assuring that chlorine contains D. 317 cm3
two isotopes of mass number 35 E. 34.7 cm3

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22. The electronic configurations D. cellulose
of elements X and Y are: X = 2, E. mineral fibre
8, 6, and Y = 2, 8 ,7
26. A spirogyra cell was placed in
23. If 1 mole of aluminium solution X, after 1 minute the cell
contains 6 x 1023 atoms of had been plasmolysed solution X
aluminium, how many atoms are was
contained in 0.9 g of aluminium?
A. tap water
A. 1.0 x 1023 B. a very strong sugar solution
B. 6.6 x 1023 C. a weak sugar solution
C. 2·0 x 1023 D. a very weak sugar solution
D. 5.4 x 1023 E. distilled water

24. 1.0g of the metal when 27. Which of these products

reduced with hydrogen, the obtained from analysing sweat
formula of the oxide is ____. from the skin is not an excretory
product?
A. X2O
B. XO A. water
C. XO2 B. salts
D. X2O3 C. dust
E. X3O4 D. urea
E. urates
25. Cotton is almost pure
28. An organism which lives on
A. starch the remains of the dead plant is
B. protein _____.
C. animal fibre

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A. an endoparasite A. meristem
B. a saprophyte B. sclerenchyma
C. a commensal C. phloem
D. a symbiont D. collenchyma
E. an ectoparasite E. pith

29. Which of the substances listed 32. Root hairs have their origin
below is a trace element for from
plants?
A. endoderm
A. potassium B. pericycle
B. sodium C. cortex
C. copper D. epidermis
D. phosphate E. xylem
E. nitrate
33. Magnesium is utilized in the
30. Which of these is not a type of formation of
soil?
A. ATP
A. sand B. glucose
B. granite C. amino acids
C. loam D. chlorophyll
D. clay E. fats
E. sandy loamy
34. Which of the following organs
31. In which of the following produces bile?
tissues do the cells have the
ability to divide? A gall bladder
B. pancreas

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C. spleen B. more carbon dioxide to be
D. liver formed
E. stomach C. nitrates to be converted to
nitrogen
35. The following are connected D. death
with the movement of a reflex
action. 37. The amount of water loss
from a leaf can be detected using
1. central nervous system ____.
2. Muscles
3. skin A. lime water
4. sensory nerve B. red litmus
5. motor nerve C. blue litmus paper
D. blue cobalt chloride paper
Which of the following sequences E. pink cobalt chloride paper
indicates a correct path?
38. The mushroom is an organism
A. 1-2-3-5 which feeds ___.
B. 2-1-4-5-3
C. 3-4-1-2-5 A. parasitically
D. 4-1-5-2-3 B. saprophytically
E. 4-1-2-5 C. holozoically
D. autotrophically
36. During thunderstorm the
energy of lighting discharge 39. One tissue which connects a
causes ____. muscle to a bone is a

A. oxygen and nitrogen to A. cartilage

combine B. muscle fibre

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C. tendon 43. (3.2)2 - (1.8)2 equals
D. ligament
E. connecting fibre A. 7.0
B. 2.56
40. In which of the following C. 13.48
plants is swollen shoot disease D. 2.0
common? E. 0.07

A. Groundnut 44. The annual profits of a

B. cocoa transport business were divided
C. cotton between the two partners A and B
D. rubber in the ratio 3:5. If B received
$3000 more than A, the total
41. A pyramid is constructed on a profit was ___.
cuboid _____.
A. the figure has twelve faces A. $5000
B. thirteen vertices B. $1300
C. fourteen edges C. $12000
D. fifteen edges D. $24000
E sixteen edges E. $8000

42. If x2 − 4 = 0, then x is ___. 45. Which of the following is not a

factor of 12 - 5 ?
A. 4
B. -4 A. 7
C. 2 B. 13
D. -2 C. 17
E. none of these D. 49
E. 169

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46. A temperature of 20°c is the 49. In an electrolysis experiment,
same as ____. a cathode of mass 5g is found to
weigh 5.01 g after a current of 5A
A. 36°F flows for 50s. What is the
B. 68°F electrochemical equivalent of the
C. 11.1°F deposited substance?
D. 48.1°F
E. 25°F A. 0.00004g/C
B. 0.000029/C
47. A guitar string is 75cm long. C. 0.025009/C
The wavelength of its D. 0.05000g/C
fundamental note is E. 0.000019/C

A. 75cm 50. Which or the following

B. 150cm electromagnetic waves has the
C. 37.5cm shortest wavelength?
D. 112.5cm
E. 50cm A. radio
B. x - rays
48. A man standing between two C. infra-red
parallel mirrors in a barber's shop D. blue light
will see the following number of E. ultraviolet
his own image.
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C. four
D. five 1. B 2. E 3. A 4. A 5. B 6. A 7. A
E. infinite 8. E 9. B 10. D 11. B 12. D 13. B

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14. B 15. C 16. D 17. B 18. A
19. B 20. D 21. C 22. C 23. C
24. A 25. D

26. B 27. C 28. B 29. C 30. B

31. A 32. D 33. A 34. D 35. C
36. C 37. D 38. B 39. C 40. B
41. E 42. C 43. A 44. C 45. D
46. B 47. C 48. E 49. E 50. B

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 2014/2015 FUNAI POST UTME QUESTIONS

COMPREHENSION: opportunity for the employment

of women.
INSTRUCTION: Read the
following passage carefully The solution is to get her married
and answer the questions that as soon as possible, with the
follows. inevitable result that she
produces children too soon, too
If we examine the opportunities often and too late. With no formal
for education of girls or women in education, she is hardly aware
less developed countries, we that there is any alternative. In a
usually find a dismal picture. In study made in Thailand, it was
some countries, the ratio of boys noted that the literate woman
to girls in secondary schools is marries later and ceases
more than seven to one. childbearing earlier than her non-
literate counterpart.
What happens to the girls? Often,
they are kept at home to look But he tending children that she is
after younger siblings and to very difficult to reach, even if
perform a variety of domestic health services, nutrition re-
chores. Their education is not education, maternal and child
perceived as in any way equal in health centres are available in her
important to that of the boys. community.
When a non-literate or barely She does not understand what
literate girl reaches adolescence, they are intended to do.
she has little or no qualification
for employment, even if her 1. The phrase ‘a dismal picture’
community provides any means

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A. a dull show 4. The phrase "too late" as used
B. an interesting show in the passage implies that the
C. a sad situation woman
D. a dreadful appearance
A. ought to have stopped
2. According to the writer, most producing children earlier
girls in less developed countries B. goes on producing children
are not in school because when she ought to have stopped
C. fail to marry early enough for
A. they refuse to be educated her to produce children
B. they prefer getting married and D. had all her children at an
having children advanced age
C. the education and health
services 5. The writer emphasizes that in
D. can only gather fuel and less developed countries
prepare food
A. the education of girls is not
3. The non-literate woman is very important
difficult to reach because she B. the non-literate woman has
some advantage because she has
A. does not understand the value more children
of education and health services C. the literate female is a threat
B. is too far from the city and to the male in employment
from school D. there is a need to give boys
C. is not permitted to go out to and girls equal opportunities in
attend clinics for health services education
D. only gather fuel and prepare
food

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Choose the word or phrase 8. The ingenious scheme of the
closest in meaning to the robber broke· down because of
underlined word. the efficiency of the police officer.

6. Most times my classmate tells A. suspicious

cock and bull stories. B. ambitious
C. deceitful
A. costly D. clever
B. unreasonable E. stupid
C. clever
D. untrue 9. Be careful we are approaching
E. funny the crossroads.

7. Never in the history of human A. look up

conflict has so much been owed B. watch out
by so many to so few. C. look out
D. hold up
A. many people owed much E. look in
money at the end of the war
B. a handful of people saved the 10. He took exception to Njoku’s
lives of a nation remark.
C. a few people did a lot of thin
gratis A. was delighted
D. this conflict caused the largest B. was excited by
ransom ever demanded C. got demoralised
E. very little was owed by anyone D. objected to
to anybody E. was perplexed by

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Choose the option opposite in C. menial
meaning to the word(s) or D. moderate
phrase underlined. E. ordinary

11. For millions of years, the 14. In a sentence, there must

world’s resources have remained always be concord between a
boundless. subject and is verb.

A. unlimited A. breath
B. scarce B. departure
C. indomitable C. disagreement
D. limited D. dispute
E. available E. alliance

12. The president took exception 15. The lecture was merely
to the ignoble role the young man obfuscating the issue with his
played in the matter. endless examples.

A. honourable A. complicating
B. embarrassing B. clarifying
C. dishonourable C. confusing
D. extraordinary D. summarizing
E. dishonest E. boring

13. He accepted a mundane task Fill each gap with the most
without hesitation. appropriate option from the
list following the gap.
A. great
B. lowly

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16. My shoes are worn out; I _____water out of fabrics with
must see my ______. their hands.

A. grocer A. wring
B. tanner · B. wrung
C. cobbler C. wrang
D. hosier D. winged
E. shoe-maker E. wrong

17. ______woman was attacked 20. Three quarters of the physics

by a group of bandits. class _____ dramatically.

A. a 90-years A. improve
B. a 90year old B. improves
C. a 90-year-old C. are improving
D. 90-year old D. improving
E. 90 years old E. is improved

18. She has been hero _____ the 21. Eze is contemptuous
past three weeks. _____dishonest people.

A. since A. to
B. for B. at
C. from C. for
D. in D. of
E. during E. from

19. Before mechanization,

workers

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22. The plaintiff ______the court 25. The Dark continent was an
to restrain the defendants from ______for Africa.
further action.
A. abuse
A. asked B. enigma
B. begged C. eclectic
C. demanded of D. epithet
D. prayed E. impression

23. Ngozi is prepared for a Choose the best of the options

______ with his opponent from the questions below
following his defeat last season.
26. Which of the following metals
A. stay-off cannot replace hydrogen from
B. show-down water or steam?
C. show-out
D. show-up A. sodium
E. show up B. magnesium
C. iron
24. The President rejected the bill D. calcium
and withheld his _____. E. copper

A. accent 27. Which one of the following

B. assent changes is physical?
C. access
D. ascent A. adding iron fillings to aerated
E. assess water
B. adding sodium metal to water

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C. cooling a solution of iron (ii) B. fermentation
sulphate to obtain the hydrate C. isomerization
salt D. cracking
D. cooling water to obtain ice E. cooking
E. during the domestic gas for
cooking 31. Pick out the correct statement

28. 0.1 F of electricity was passed A. zinc heated to redness react

through a solution of copper (II) with steam to give oxygen and
sulphate. The maximum weight of zinc oxide
copper deposited on the cathode B. zinc heated to redness reacts
would be (Cu = 64) with steam to give oxygen and
hydrogen
A. 64.0g C. zinc does not react with hot or
B. 32.0g cold water
C. 16.0g D. zinc reacts with not water to
D. 6.4g form zinc oxide and hydrogen
E. 3.2g E. zinc reacts very easily with cold
water to give zinc oxide and
29. Bronze is an ally of _____. hydrogen

A. copper, zinc and nickel 32. Chlorine, bromine and iodine

B. aluminium and copper resemble each other in that all
C. copper and zinc _____.
D. tin and zinc
E. tin and copper A. dissolve in alkalis
B. react violently with hydrogen
30. Starch can be converted without heating
A. distillation

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C. displace each other from A. the tyndall effect
solution of their salts B. homogeneity
D. are gases C. osmotic pressure
E. are liquids D. surface polarity
E. all of the above
33. When air is compressed,
_____. 36. Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe was born
in
A. its density decreases
B. it solidifies A. 1909
C. its temperature increases B. 1900
D. it temperature decreases C. 1904
E. it temperature is unchanged D. 1901
E. 1902
34. Which of the following is
formed when maltose acts with 37. One of the following was a
concentrated tetraoxosulphate female Governor in Nigeria
(vi) acid?
A. Prof. Dora Akunyili
A. carbon (iv) oxide B. Dame Patience Goodluck
B. coal tar C. Hon. Uche Ekwunife
C. charcoal D. Dame Vergy Etiaba
D. toxic fumes E. Chief (Mrs) Serah Jubril
E. none of the above
38. The 2010 soccer world-cup
35. A property of a colloidal competition took place in _____.
dispersion which a solution does
not have is ____. A. Germany
B. Brazil

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C. Colombia E. 0>X>2
D. USA
E. South Africa 42. A house bought for ₦109,000
was tater auctioned for ₦80,000.
39. The first Nigerian vice- Find the loss percent.
chancellor was _____.
A. 20%
A. Prof Eni Njoku B. 30%
B. Prof Takenna Tamuno C. 40%
C. Prof Ade Ajayi D. 50%
D. Prof Kenneth Oil E. 60%
E. Prof Adeoye Lambo
43. If 2x + y = 7 and 3x- 2y = 3
40. The capital of Lagos state is by now much is 7x greater than
_____. 10?

A. Surulere A. 1
B. Victoria Island B. 3
C. Ikeja C. 7
D. Oshodi D. 10
E. Ikorodu E. 17

41. If x is positive for what range 44. Find the number whose
of x is 4 + 3x < 10? logarithm in base 10 is 2.6025.

A. 0<X<2 A. 400.4
B. x<x B. 0.4004
0. 1<X<2 C. 0.04004
D. 0<X<4 D. 0.004004

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E. 0.0004004 48. A trader makes a loss of 15%
when selling an article. Find the
45. Simplify: + x( − ). ratio, selling prize : cost prize.
49. If N varies directly as M and N
= 8 when M = 20. Find M when N
A. 7/30
=7
B 7/24
C. 9/25
A. 13
D. 1/2
B. 15
E. 18/25
C. 17 ½
D. 18 ½
46. A stick of length 1.7m was
E. 19 ½
measured by a boy as 1.80m. find
the percentage error in his
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measurement.
2014/2015 POST-UTME
QUESTIONS
A. 27/9%
B. 26/7%
1. C 2. C 3. A 4. D 5. D 6. D 7. B
C. 5%
8. D 9. B 10. D 11. D 12. A 13.
D. 27.7/7%
C 14. C 15. B 16. C 17. C 18. B
E. 28.4/9%
19. B 20. B 21. A 22. D 23. B
24. B 25. D
47. Simplify log 3.9 + log
3.15−log 3.5
26. E 27. D 28. E 29. E 30. B
31. C 32. D 33. A 34. C 35. C
A. log3 19
36. A 37. A 38. D 39. E 40. A
B. log 3
41. C 42. A 43. A 44. C 45. C
C. 3
46. D 47. - 48. C 49. C
D. 1
E. 0
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 2013/2014 FUNAI POST UTME QUESTIONS

Time allowed: 1 hour could be written as true records

either willingly or inadvertently.
Answer all questions by With the advent of the electronic
marking the correct option in memory, however, these dangers
each question have I been largely overcome.

Read the passage below Recordings on audio and video

carefully and answer cassettes now show not only what
questions 1 - 5 that follow it. happened, but also who did or
said what including how and
Development in electronic science when.
has transferred, he art of record
keeping in the modern age. 1. The author believes that
Traditionally, records of events electronic recording is
were kept only in people's mind.
It depended very much on the A. superior only to mental
retentive power of the human recording
memory. This was extremely B. interior to both mental
dangerous as people either forgot recording and writing
events wholly or in pair, or C. superior to both mental
deliberately falsified details of suit recording and writing
of various interests. D. interior to only writing

Intermediates arguments were 2. The writer believes that the art

thus the order of the day. Even of record keeping has ___.
writing which I replaced mental
recording was not entirely free A. improved over the years
from those shortcomings untruth B. encouraged human memory

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C changed human memory A. as unreliable as human
D. overcome all the problems memory
acting it B. as reliable as electronic
memory
3. How many stages of C. more reliable than electronic
development that the writer recording
mention while discussing the art D. not to be compared to any
of record keeping. other recording system

A. two In question 6 and 7, select the

B. three option that light explosions
C. four the information conveyed in
D. five the sentence.

4. According to the author, 6. With the screening test around

human memory is unreliable the corner, I’ve got the jitters
because people. already.

A. the ant forgot what they said A. I’ve felt confident

B. forget events on tell lies B. I’ve felt secured and hopeful
C. do not always know when C. I’m getting anxious
events happen D. I’m getting afraid
D. do not always know who did
what and when 7. The teacher warned his
students against resting on their
5. From the passage, we gather laurels.
that writing is almost?
A. relaxing on soft chairs
B. taking things for granted

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C. depending on past 10. In some part of India, people
achievements are ostracized simply because of
D. feeling satisfied and making no their ancestry.
new effort
A. abandoned
In question 8-12 choose the B. shut off from society
option nearest in meaning to C. refused education
the word(s) or phrase in D. rendered unhappy
italics E. hated

8. He lost his voice momentarily . 11. We all have both good and
bad characteristics. Either is,
A. in a moment however, manifested in time of
B. in a split moment crisis.
C. for a brief period of time
D. without delay A. demanded
E. instantly B. highlighted
C. revealed
9. You have been asked to change D. demonstrated
your laissez-faire attitude to work. E. indicated

A. stupid 12. One of the surest ways to

B. carefree ensure good health is to have a
C. careful wholesome and adequate diet.
D. responsible
E. callous A. palatable
B. mixed
C. hygienic
D. prudent

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E. health-good D. lively
E. garrulous
In question 13-18, choose the
option opposite in meaning by 16. The doctor was very gentle
the word in italics with the patients in the ward.

13. The state governor upheld the A. harsh

decision of the cabinet. B. rude
C. rough
A. held up D. unkind
B. undercut E. callous
C. maintained
D. abolished 17. Joseph is a disco-addict. He
E. reversed takes his studies rather lightly.

14. The Director is loved for his A. humorously

altruism. B. gloomily
C. tediously
A. benevolence D. carefully
B. sincerity E. seriously
C. selfishness
D. selflessness 18. My cousin is very lazy. His
E. generosity future is rather bleak.

15. Chinyere is naturally taciturn. A. cloudy

B. careful
A. friendly C. bright
B. cheerful D. huge
C. dumb E. sturdy

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19. The door handle was shaky B. voracious
because the screws had ____. C. vivacious
D. veracious
A lost
B. loosed In questions 23-30, choose
C. losed the word(s) or phrase which
D. loosened best fills the gap(s)

20. Something is being done to 23. There's ____ ventilation in

detect the person who ____ the this room that's why you don t
crime. breathe well.

A. perpetrated A. few
B. perpetuated 8. a few
C. performed C. little
D. promoted D. a little

21. The lawyer pleaded with the 24. Whenever he put the light on
judge to _____justice with mercy. someone _____to disturb him.
A. tempar
B. tamper A. couldn't
C. tamper B. might
D. taper C. shouldn’t
D. needn't
22. Obi bought five novels last
week and has gone through all. 26. ______him in the crowd, I
He is certainly a _____reader. would have told you at once.

A. vicarious A. had it been I saw

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B. if I saw D. she
C. had I seen
D. should I see 30. Let's start our revision at
once,_______.
27. _____ he had insufficient
qualification, he was denied A. shouldn’t
admission. B. shall we
C. couldn't we
A. hence D. shouldn't we
B. for the fact
C. being that 31. What is 11 multiply by 15?
D. as
A. 196
28. I was disappointed by my B. 165
performance because_____ very C. 195
hard. D. 156

A. l had studied 32. Divide 84 by 7 and add 17,

B. I have studied what is the answer?
C. I studied
D. I did studied A. 28
B. 19
29. Everybody knows that C. 32
_____should return the gown D. 29
after matriculation.
33. What is 5/9 of 216?
A. he or she
B. he A. 120
C. they B. 110

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C. 130 it was four times as many
D. 124 minutes past 10am.

34. Which salary is greater? A. 16 mins

B. 4 mins
A. ₦350 weekly C. 32 mins
B. ₦646 biweekly D. 20 mins
C. ₦1378 monthly E. 8 mins
D. ₦17,000 per annum
38. What number should replace
35. Which number should come the question mark to continue the
next in the series? 1, 4, 9, 16, 25 sentence? 100, 96.5, 92, 86.5, ?
39. What number should replace
A. 2 the question mark to continue the
B. 5 next sentence? 17, 34, 51, 68, 7,
C. 12 102, ___
D. 36
A. 79
36. Which number should come B. 85
next in this series? 3, 5, 13, 21 C.92
D. 88
A. 6 E. 82
B. 34
C. 39 40. If you have four fifths of
D. 30 ₦1,000 and spend ₦360, how
much will you be left with?
37. How many minutes is it
before 12noon if 40 minutes ago A. ₦250
B. ₦480

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C. ₦320 C. 12
D. ₦440 D. 13
E. ₦400 E. 9

41. If Friday is the 4th day of the 44. What is the day and date 27
month, what day is the 13th day days after Wednesday 11 June?
of the month?
A. Monday 7th July
A. Sunday B. Tuesday, 15th July
B. Monday C. Wednesday, 9 July
C. Saturday D. Tuesday, 8th July
D. Friday E. Sunday, 6th July
E. Thursday
Each of question 45-48
42. Peter has twice as much as consists of a series of letters
James altogether, they have 84, or numbers that follow some
how many has each? definite order.
A. Peter 52, James 52
B. Peter 40, James 44 Study each series to
C. Peter 20, James 64 determine what the order is
D. Peter 28, James 56 and select one answer that
E. Peter 36, James 50 will complete the set-in
accordance with the
43. Count the number of times established pattern.
the letter "e" appears in this
sentence. What Is the total? 45. a c c b d f c e g h

A. 10 A. f
B. 11 B. h

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D. i 2013/2014 POST UTME EXAM

46. f g I h j k m I n o q p r s 1. C 2. A 3. B 4. B 5. A 6. C 7. B
8. C 9. B 10. D 11. C 12. A 13. E
A. I 14. B 15. E 16. C 17. E 18. C
B. u 19. D 20. A 21. A 22. B 23. C
C. v 24. B 25. D
D. r
26. C 27. C 28. C 29. A 30. A
47. a b 3 d e 6 g h 9 31. B 32. B 33. A 34. A 35. B
36. ** 37. D 38. C 39. B 40. D
A. f 41. A 42. ** 43. E 44. D 45. B
BI 46. B 47. B 48. B
C. 12
D. i

48. a 2 b 3 c d 5 e 6 f

A. g7
B. I7
C. 7˚
D. 7g

49. Pick the piece that's missing

from the diagram on the left

50. Which figure is different from

the others?

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