2021 WAEC (WASSCE) Economics Past Questions
Browse the 2021 WAEC (WASSCE) Economics past questions with answers and step-by-step explanations. Economics rewards conceptual clarity. Microeconomic theory, public finance, the structure of the Nigerian economy, and basic statistics are the high-frequency topics; past questions show exactly which graphs and definitions to memorise. 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 WAEC (WASSCE) Economics questions
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- Q12017MEDIUMEnglish
In the following sentence, there is one underlined word and one gap. From the list of words lettered A to D, choose the one that is most nearly opposite in meaning to the underlined word and that will, at the same time, correctly fill the gap in the sentence. Buba was purposeful in his serch for a job but Bala was rather _____ about his.
- A.patient
- B.slow✓ Correct
- C.lazy
- D.casual
- Q22025MEDIUMEnglish
From the words or group of words lettered A-D, choose the word or group of words that best completes each of the following sentences. Amadi's plan _____ at the last moment.
- A.fell down
- B.fell on
- C.fell through✓ Correct
- D.fell off
- Q32017MEDIUMLiterature in English
Yet, let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings The alliteration in stinks and stings effectively conveys__________-
- A.Distaste
- B.Admiration✓ Correct
- C.Indifference
- D.Approval
- Q42023MEDIUMMathematics
How many students scored at least 3 marks?
- A.44
- B.52
- C.38✓ Correct
- D.18
- Q52015MEDIUMAgricultural Science
Farm surveying equipment include the following except
- A.A. Abney level
- B.B. Compass✓ Correct
- C.C. Gunter's chain
- D.D. Spade
- Q62025MEDIUMPhysics
Which of the following statements about sound wave is not correct? Sound waves can be
- A.reflected
- B.refracted✓ Correct
- C.diffracted
- D.polarized
- Q72011MEDIUMBiology
The process whereby electrons are emitted from chlorophyll and returned to it unchanged is known as?
- A.non-cyclic phosphorylation✓ Correct
- B.photochemical reaction
- C.photophorylation
- D.cyclic photophorylatlion
- Q82025MEDIUMEnglish
From the words lettered A to D, choose the word that best completes each of the following sentences: His last novel was........by his visit to the prisons
- A.inspired
- B.generated
- C.conceived✓ Correct
- D.revealed
- Q92025MEDIUMEnglish
From the words or group of words lettered A to D, choose the one that best completes each of the following sentences. I am sorry to bother you.......I have something important to tell you
- A.because
- B.but
- C.when
- D.and✓ Correct
- Q102025MEDIUMChemistry
Which of the following subtances will not produce effervescence with dilute hydeochloric acid?
- A.Copper (ll) trioxocarbonate (IV)✓ Correct
- B.Potassium hydrogentrioxocarbonate (lV)
- C.Zinc granules
- D.Sodium chloride
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