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OAU Post-UTME 2024 past questions and answers

This 2024 OAU Post-UTME set has 40 practice questions. Try these 5 free sample questions, tap a question to reveal the answer and explanation. Then practise the whole 2024 set with instant marking.

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Sample OAU Post-UTME 2024 questions

1. Neither the registrar nor the clerks ___ available to answer the students' questions yesterday.
  1. were
  2. was
  3. is
  4. has been

Answer: A. were

With neither...nor, the verb agrees with the nearer subject, clerks, which is plural.

2. If Tola had left home earlier, she ___ the first bus to campus.
  1. will catch
  2. would have caught
  3. would catch
  4. had caught

Answer: B. would have caught

A past unreal condition takes would have plus the past participle in its result clause.

3. In the sentence 'The new measures may mitigate the effects of flooding,' the word mitigate means to ___.
  1. predict
  2. spread
  3. reduce
  4. record

Answer: C. reduce

To mitigate an effect is to make it less severe or harmful.

4. When Sade 'spilled the beans' about the surprise, she ___.
  1. wasted the food
  2. made a careless mess
  3. changed the plan
  4. revealed the secret

Answer: D. revealed the secret

The idiom spill the beans means to disclose information that was meant to be secret.

5. Which sentence correctly punctuates a direct question asked by Musa?
  1. Musa asked, 'Where are you going?'
  2. Musa asked 'Where are you going'.
  3. Musa asked, 'Where are you going.'
  4. Musa asked 'Where are you going?'

Answer: A. Musa asked, 'Where are you going?'

The introductory clause is followed by a comma, and the question mark belongs inside the quotation marks.

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