ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Your answer must be around 450 words.
1. Your sister wants to marry a man from another ethnic group against your mother’s
wishes. Write a letter to your mother giving at least three reasons why she should
accept your sister’s decision.
2. Write a story, real or imagined, which illustrates the saying: ‘Make hay while the sun
shines’.
Your answer must be around 450 words.
COMPREHENSION
Read the following passage and answer the question on it.
The influence of the environment in evoking the effects of genes is apparent in a
number of diseases. As is well known, rickets is due to a deficiency in vitamin D. This
may arise from an insufficiency of those articles of diet containing it, such as fish oil,
eggs, butter, milk and cheese, or under exposure to sunshine for ultra-violet light leads
to the production of Vitamin D in the skin from pro-vitamins such as ergosterol. The
disease is common among children of the poorer classes brought up in the sunless
conditions of big cities. But it arises so much more easily in some constitutions than the
others that, before the discovery of vitamins, it was classified simply as an inherited
defects. Among slum populations exposed to an apparently similar environment, it will
occur frequently in some facilities but not at all in others, while children who develop
rickets may have healthy brothers and sisters though there may be no obvious
difference in their upbringing.
There is, in fact fairly strong evidence that, in some cases at least, susceptibility to
the condition is due to the action of a single gene with heterozygous expression. When
both Vitamin D and a sufficiency of sunshine are lacking, this would ensure the
inheritance of rickets upon simple Mendelian lines though the segregation of the gene
would be completely obscured in a family with a well-balanced diet.
A. What are the two factors that cause rickets in children?
B. What three things, according to the writer, cause rickets in persons with
heterozygous gene?
C. According to the passage, how can a child inherit rickets.
D. Why do some children develop rickets and some do not even though they are
brought up in the same environment?
E. “The influence of the environment in evoking the effects of genes........”
(i) What grammatical name is given to this expression as used in the passage?
(ii) What is its function?
F. For each of the following words find another word or phrase that means the same and
can
replace it as it is used in the passage.
(i) apparent
(ii) common
(iii) classified
(iv) similar
(v) evidence
(vi) segregation
MATHEMATICS
1(a) A chord of length 14cm is mid-way the radius of a circle. Calculate the radius of the
circle.
(b) Find the solution of the inequality 3 x  2  6 x  15
2 5 4
2(a) Simplify    
 x y  xy
(b) Suppose
x 2
2x  y
= , evaluate
y 3
2x  y
3(a) Solve the following simultaneous equations:
m n
m n
   1 and
  10
4 6
2 5
(b) Simplify  5 (4r ) (2r )
4(a) Evaluate by the use of four-figure table
173.8 14.7
2.61
(b) List out the next five terms of the following sequences
(i) 1, 3, 9, 27, ...
(ii) -2, -4, -6, -8, ...
5. A line passes through the points A(2, 5) and B(6, 3). Use the information to estimate
the following:
(a) Equation of the line
(b) Gradient of the line
(c) Mid-point of the line
(d) Shortest distance between A and B.
LITERATURE IN ENGLISH
Questions from The Blood of a Stranger
Answer only three questions here
1. Examine the role of Maligu and Soko in the play
2. Write a short story on Kindo, focusing on his character and roles in the play
3. Discuss the theme of disloyalty in the play.
4. Describe the character of the following people in the play:
(i) Soko
(ii) Maligu
(iii) Santigi
(iv) Whitehead
(v) Wara.
FISHERY
1(a) What is fish culture?
(b) Mention three factors that causes high infection rates in fish culture.
(c) Mention three qualities of a culturable fish species
(d) Differentiate between monoculture and polyculture
2(a) Write short note on the following;
(i) Oviparous fish
(ii) Viviparous fish
(iii) Ovoviviparous fish
(b) Mention four signs of spawning in fish.
3(a) Define fish food.
(b) Name three types of fish food
(c)Mention three causes of overfeeding in fish
(d) Mention two methods of angling in fish
4(a) Briefly explain the following terms:
(i) Carnivorous fish
(ii) Limnivonrous fish
(iii) Bottom feeders
(iv) Filter feeders
(b) State one reason for including each of the following feed additives in fish feed
(i) Binding agents
(ii) Preservatives
CHEMISTRY
1. Write a balanced ionic equation for the redox reaction between acidified
potassiumtetraoxomanganate(vii) and copper(ii)sulphate
2a. Define the following:
i) Oxidizing agent
ii) Reducing agent
b. Show that the following reactions are Oxidation – Reduction reactions indicating with
reasons the oxidizing and agents
3a. What is isomerism?
b. Name the alkanol that is isomeric with methaoxymethane (CH3OCH3)
c. Give with appropriate examples the two classification of alkanols
4a. Benzane contains six carbon atoms and six hydrogen atoms
i. Draw two stable structures of benzene to show how these atoms are arranged
ii. What is the concept behind the structures
b. i.
ii.
Give two uses of benzene
One industrial source of benzene
CHRISTIAN RELIGION KNOWLEDGE
1(a) In what ways did Paul teach Christians to become true children of God?
(b) How can a Christian rightly become a child of God?
2(a) Narrate the story of the second creation as contained in Genesis chapter 2.
(b) How does this story illustrate the sovereignty of God?
3(a) Narrate the story of Joseph in Canaan and indicate how he came to resume leadership
role in Egypt.
(b) Give only two leadership qualities you find in him.
4(a) To what extent was moral weakness of Eli’s children due to their father’s lack of
parental
responsibility?
(b) How did God react to this lapse?
GEOGRAPHY
1
(a) With the aid of a diagram, describe the three courses of river.
(b) Describe the four actions involved in river erosion and transportation.
(c) List the three processes of river action
2
(a) With the aid of diagram, describe the four types of mountain.
(b) What is earth quake?
(c) With the aid of a well labelled diagram, describe the science of land and sea
breezes.
3
(a) What is environmental resources?
(b) List and explain six types of environmental resources.
(c) List 4 examples of renewable and non-renewable environmental resources.
4
(a) Write short note on the following:
I. Land transport
II. Water transport and
III. Air transport
Note: write on their uses, mode, and classification
(b) List and explain 4 important sea routes for international trade of the world.
GOVERNMENT
1
(a) Explain free and fair election.
(b) Mention and explain 6 main features of free and fair election
2
(a) What is an electoral commission?
(b) Mention and explain 5 problems militating against the electoral commission in
Nigeria.
3
(a) Explain the term Franchise.
(b) Mention and explain 5 qualifications for Franchise in Nigeria
4
(a) What is public opinion?
(b) Describe how public opinion can be measured.
5
(a) Explain the term election.
(b) What are the purpose of an election?
CIVIC EDUCATION
1(a) What do you understand by human rights?
(b) Identify and explain five human rights of the citizens.
(c) Highlight five limitations of human rights.
2(a) What is drug?
(b) Examine the concept of drug abuse.
(c) Give six reasons people abuse drugs.
3(a) Identify and explain four symptoms of drug abuse.
(b) State and describe four behavior of a drug addict.
(c) Name and discuss three social effects of drug addiction.
4(a) Highlight the law promulgated against drug abuse.
(b) Enumerate some of the activities of drug law enforcement agencies in combating drug
abuse.
(c) Discuss five ways of preventing drug abuse.
5(a) Explain the concept of popular participation.
(b) Identify and explain four forms of popular participation.
(c) Highlight five hinderances to political participation
AGRIC SCIENCE
1a. Explain the term ‘drainage’
b. Describe five benefits of drainage in crop production.
c. Give five reasons why bush burning should be discouraged.
2a. Discuss fully how immigration helps in the development of disease and building of pests.
b. When does soil said to be productive?
3a. List four advantages of soil organization.
b. Discuss fully, five causes of deforestation.
c. With the aid of diagram describe Nitrogen cycle.
4a. List the ways by which soil can lose its nutrient.
b. Describe the ways or methods that can lead to continuous supply of timber in your country.
5a. Name four common surveying instrument.
b. Write short note on the following.
i. Surface irrigation.
ii. Drip irrigation.
iii. Sprinkler irrigation.
c. Itemise the forest reserve in Nigeria and their location.