2020 JAMB Commerce Past Questions
Browse the 2020 JAMB Commerce past questions with answers and step-by-step explanations. Commerce tests Nigerian business structures, trade, banking, insurance and the role of government in the economy. The vocabulary is testable: definitions of legal terms reappear from year to year. Use the year archive below to time yourself the way the actual exam does — most candidates need to work questions across multiple years before the patterns become obvious.
Sample JAMB Commerce questions
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- Q12015MEDIUMMathematics
Solve x2 − 2x − 3 = 0
- A.x = 2 or 1
- B.x = 3 or -1
- C.x = 1 or 0
- D.x = 1 or 2✓ Correct
- Q22014MEDIUMEnglish
Choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined word or phrase. The first round of the tournament was a doddle.
- A.Exasperating.
- B.Easy.
- C.Balanced.
- D.Dodgy.✓ Correct
- Q32023MEDIUMGeography
Which of the following pairs of landforms can be found in the desert areas?
- A.Barchans and tombolos
- B.Zeugens and rock pedestals
- C.Sauddoars and tombolos✓ Correct
- D.Yardangs and batholiths
- Q42010MEDIUMEnglish
The word in capital letters has the emphatic stress. Choose the option to which the given sentence relates. Taiwo SAILED to London.
- A.Did Taiwo fly to London?
- B.Did Taiwo sail to Brazil?
- C.Did Taiwo sail to London
- D.Where did Taiwo sail to?✓ Correct
- Q52025MEDIUMGovernment
A remarkable feature of the Republican Constitution was the
- A.A. The president was the head of government
- B.B. The prime minister also performs ceremonial functions✓ Correct
- C.C. Privy Court was the final court of arbiter
- D.D. The queen ceased to be the Head of State
- Q62023MEDIUMLiterature in English
This question is based on SECOND CLASS CITIZEN. The novel is set after which major war?
- A.First World War (1914-1918)
- B.Aba Women Riot (1929)
- C.Second World War (1939-1945)
- D.The Nigerian Civil War (1967-1970)✓ Correct
- Q72023MEDIUMGeography
Which of the following has the highest salinity?
- A.Dead sea
- B.Mediterranean sea✓ Correct
- C.Red sea
- D.South Atlantic ocean
- Q82021MEDIUMHistory
The system of government in the Benin pre colonial system of government is __________
- A.A. Unitary✓ Correct
- B.B. Monarchy
- C.C. Parliamentary
- D.D. Presidential
- Q92022MEDIUMEconomics
If the government imposes a minimum price on a commodity
- A.market surplus occurs
- B.the market will be cleared in the short-run
- C.excess demand occurs
- D.government regulation is no longer needed✓ Correct
- Q102020MEDIUMPhysics
The effect of closing the key K in the circuit shown in the figure above would be to?
- A.increase the current by 0.4A✓ Correct
- B.reduce the current by 0.4A
- C.increase the current by 0.6A
- D.reduce the current by 0.6A
Other JAMB Commerce years
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