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3,877 real Post-UTME Screening questions from 2005 to 2025, every one with a worked solution. Practise them timed, on the web, on Android, or offline on desktop.

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Questions held
3,877
Years covered
21
Questions per paper
60
Time allowed
40 min
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Sample English 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 English 2025 · Question 1
According to the passage, what is the main consequence of the internet on youths?
  1. It has made traditional libraries completely obsolete.
  2. It has reduced their capacity to focus on deep, complex literature. — correct answer
  3. It has forced educators to stop teaching complex texts.
  4. It has made information harder to verify.
Worked solution
The passage's central point is that the attention span needed for deep, thought-provoking literature has severely diminished. Libraries are only 'becoming' ghost towns, and C and D are not stated.
PUTME English 2024 · Question 1
Which of the following best characterizes the tone of the passage toward social insects?
  1. Dismissive and skeptical
  2. Analytical and admiring — correct answer
  3. Satirical and humorous
  4. Neutral and indifferent
Worked solution
The writer analyses how the insects communicate and decide, while admiring their 'extraordinary' cooperation and 'astonishing complexity'.
PUTME English 2023 · Question 1
What is the primary role of phytoplankton in the aquatic ecosystem?
  1. To provide shelter for aquatic animals
  2. To produce oxygen and serve as a food source — correct answer
  3. To absorb excess nutrients from the water
  4. To regulate water temperature
Worked solution
The passage says phytoplankton produce up to 70% of the Earth's oxygen and are an essential food source for many aquatic animals.
PUTME English 2022 · Question 1
The management has neither ____ nor *denied* the rumour that it was going to lay off some workers.
  1. Pronounced
  2. Confirmed — correct answer
  3. Rejected
  4. Advertised
Worked solution
'Neither confirmed nor denied' is the fixed pairing. The management did not confirm the rumour and did not deny it.
PUTME English 2021 · Question 1
Fill the gap with the appropriate option: The beautiful girl is ______ the fear of failing her examination.
  1. devoid of
  2. worried with
  3. depressed of
  4. haunted by — correct answer
Worked solution
One is 'haunted by' a fear; the other options are wrong collocations or wrong in meaning.
Every paper we hold

PUTME English, year by year.

2025
85 questions
2024
361 questions
2023
141 questions
2022
103 questions
2021
338 questions
2020
105 questions
2019
252 questions
2018
245 questions
2017
227 questions
2016
101 questions
2015
483 questions
2014
207 questions
2013
156 questions
2012
235 questions
2011
148 questions
2010
100 questions
2009
90 questions
2008
84 questions
2007
131 questions
2006
81 questions
2005
30 questions
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