PUTME Aptitude Test 2025 · Question 1
Choose the word opposite in meaning to *imperious*.
- Arrogant
- Bossy
- Domineering
- Humble — correct answer
Worked solution
Imperious means arrogant and domineering; its opposite is humble.
PUTME Aptitude Test past questions.
403 real Post-UTME Screening questions from 2011 to 2025, every one with a worked solution. Practise them timed, on the web, on Android, or offline on desktop.
- Questions held
- 403
- Years covered
- 14
- Questions per paper
- 40
- Time allowed
- 40 min
Try 5
Sample Aptitude Test 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.
PUTME Aptitude Test 2024 · Question 1
If the radius of a circle is diminished by 10%, then its area is diminished by:
- 10%
- 19% — correct answer
- 20%
- 81%
Worked solution
Area is proportional to . The new area is of the original, a reduction of 19%.
PUTME Aptitude Test 2023 · Question 1
Pick out the odd one.
- Leopard
- cougar
- elephant — correct answer
- lion
Worked solution
Leopard, cougar and lion are big cats (carnivores); the elephant is not.
PUTME Aptitude Test 2022 · Question 1
The only uncolonized country in Africa is
- Egypt
- Uganda
- Ethiopia — correct answer
- Ghana
Worked solution
Egypt, Uganda and Ghana were British colonies or protectorates. Ethiopia was never colonised (apart from a brief Italian occupation, 1936-41).
PUTME Aptitude Test 2021 · Question 1
How many countries are in Africa?
- 52
- 53
- 54 — correct answer
- 55
Worked solution
There are 54 recognised sovereign countries in Africa (all members of the United Nations).
Every paper we hold
PUTME Aptitude Test, year by year.
2025
20 questions
2024
20 questions
2023
20 questions
2022
20 questions
2021
78 questions
2019
35 questions
2018
30 questions
2017
33 questions
2016
23 questions
2015
24 questions
2014
25 questions
2013
25 questions
2012
25 questions
2011
25 questions
Before you sit it
How PUTME Aptitude Test is set.
Post-UTME Screening sets 40 questions in Aptitude Test, answered in 40 minutes — about 60 seconds a question. Practising against that clock is the part most candidates skip, and it is the part that costs marks.
We hold 403 published Aptitude Test questions spanning 2011 to 2025. You can practise any single year’s paper, or sit a full timed mock that mirrors the real interface — the navigator, the flags and the auto-submit included.
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