PUTME Economics past questions.

1,230 real Post-UTME Screening questions from 2006 to 2025, 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.

PUTME Economics 2025 · Question 1
One of the following attributes fundamentally applies to monopolistic competition
  1. price competition
  2. output determination
  3. price discrimination
  4. product differentiation — correct answer
Worked solution
Monopolistic competition is defined by many firms selling similar but differentiated products, giving each firm some control over its price.
PUTME Economics 2024 · Question 1
The Nigerian Stock Exchange was established in 1977 with the aim of
  1. registering all securities dealers
  2. authorising the establishment of unit trusts
  3. determining the price and the time companies' securities will be sold
  4. providing a mechanism for mobilising private and public savings for productive activities — correct answer
Worked solution
A stock exchange's main role is to mobilise savings into long-term investment by providing a market for securities.
PUTME Economics 2023 · Question 1
The production possibility curve can be used to explain the underlying concepts of
  1. scale of preference and choice
  2. opportunity cost and choice — correct answer
  3. wants and means
  4. opportunity cost and scale of preference
Worked solution
The PPC shows the combinations of two goods an economy can produce with its resources. It illustrates scarcity, the need to choose between alternatives, and the opportunity cost of producing more of one good (the quantity of the other given up).
PUTME Economics 2022 · Question 1
Which of the following explains the relationship between inflation and unemployment?
  1. Lorenz curve
  2. Phillips curve — correct answer
  3. Normal curve
  4. PPC
Worked solution
The Phillips curve shows the inverse relationship between the rate of unemployment and the rate of inflation (or wage inflation).
PUTME Economics 2021 · Question 1
Which of the following is not a reason for abnormal demand?
  1. Price of the commodity — correct answer
  2. Goods of ostentation
  3. Giffen goods
  4. Rare commodity
Worked solution
Abnormal demand arises with Giffen goods, goods of ostentation and rare commodities; the commodity's price itself is not a reason.
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PUTME Economics, year by year.

2025
70 questions
2024
104 questions
2023
119 questions
2022
48 questions
2021
43 questions
2020
34 questions
2019
79 questions
2018
55 questions
2017
54 questions
2016
19 questions
2015
45 questions
2014
338 questions
2013
25 questions
2012
25 questions
2011
25 questions
2010
25 questions
2009
23 questions
2008
27 questions
2007
24 questions
2006
23 questions
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