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1,420 real Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (UTME) questions from 1997 to 2026, every one with a worked solution. Practise them timed, on the web, on Android, or offline on desktop.

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Sample Economics questions, answered.

Taken straight from the papers below — one from each of the most recent years, with the answer marked and the reasoning written out.

JAMB Economics 2026 · Question 1
Along a concave production possibility frontier (PPF), opportunity cost increases primarily because
  1. all resources are perfectly substitutable across production
  2. resources exhibit differential productivity across sectors — correct answer
  3. technological progress is constant
  4. consumer preferences are infinite
Worked solution
A concave (bowed-out) PPF reflects increasing opportunity cost precisely because resources are not equally suited to every use — their productivity differs across sectors, so more and more of one good must be sacrificed to gain equal increments of another.
JAMB Economics 2025 · Question 1
The term ceteris paribus implies that
  1. resources are scarce
  2. human problems can be solved
  3. all factors are fully utillized
  4. human beings are unpredictable — correct answer
Worked solution
Ceteris paribus ("other things being equal") is invoked precisely because real economic behaviour is influenced by many changing, unpredictable human factors at once; holding other things constant lets economists isolate one relationship at a time despite that unpredictability.
JAMB Economics 2024 · Question 1
One factor that does not determine the demand for a commodity is the;
  1. Taste of the consumer
  2. Price of related commodities
  3. Price of the commodity
  4. Change in production technology. — correct answer
Worked solution
A change in production technology is a determinant of supply (via cost of production), not a determinant of demand for the commodity.
JAMB Economics 2023 · Question 1
A rightward shift in the supply curve followed by a rightward shift in the demand curve will lead to
  1. a fall in equilibrium price and an increase in equilibrium quantity
  2. a rise in equilibrium price and a decrease in equilibrium quantity
  3. a rise in equilibrium quantity — correct answer
  4. a rise in equilibrium price
Worked solution
A rightward supply shift and a rightward demand shift both push equilibrium quantity up, so quantity unambiguously rises; the net effect on price is indeterminate without knowing the relative size of each shift, since supply pushes price down while demand pushes it up.
JAMB Economics 2022 · Question 1
A production possibility curve shows?
  1. How much of the resources of society are used to produce a particular commodity
  2. The rate of inflation
  3. The rate of unemployment in the country
  4. The various combinations of two commodities that can be produced — correct answer
Worked solution
A production possibility curve (PPC) plots the various combinations of two goods an economy can produce given its resources and technology.
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2024
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2023
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2022
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2020
40 questions
2019
50 questions
2018
50 questions
2017
40 questions
2016
50 questions
2015
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2014
50 questions
2013
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2012
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2011
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2010
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2009
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2008
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2007
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2006
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2005
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2002
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2001
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2000
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1999
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1998
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1997
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