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OAU Post-UTME 2025 past questions and answers

This 2025 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 2025 set with instant marking.

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Sample OAU Post-UTME 2025 questions

1. Neither the registrar nor the lecturers ___ available to answer questions after the meeting.
  1. were
  2. was
  3. has been
  4. is

Answer: A. were

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

2. To mitigate the effect of the flood, residents moved their belongings to higher ground; mitigate means to ___.
  1. predict
  2. lessen
  3. cause
  4. record

Answer: B. lessen

To mitigate an effect is to make it less severe.

3. Which sentence is grammatically correct?
  1. Having completed the experiment, the results were recorded by the class.
  2. Having complete the experiment, the class recorded its results.
  3. Having completed the experiment, the class recorded its results.
  4. Having completed the experiment, its results recorded the class.

Answer: C. Having completed the experiment, the class recorded its results.

The introductory participial phrase correctly describes the class, which completed and recorded the experiment.

4. Choose the sentence that correctly expresses contrast despite the rain.
  1. Although the heavy rain, the match continued.
  2. Despite of the heavy rain, the match continued.
  3. In spite the heavy rain, the match continued.
  4. Despite the heavy rain, the match continued.

Answer: D. Despite the heavy rain, the match continued.

Despite is followed directly by a noun phrase and does not take of.

5. A meticulous editor checks every citation and punctuation mark; meticulous is closest in meaning to ___.
  1. careful
  2. impatient
  3. careless
  4. ordinary

Answer: A. careful

A meticulous person pays great attention to detail and is therefore careful.

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