PUTME Geography past questions.

363 real Post-UTME Screening questions from 2006 to 2015, every one with a worked solution. Practise them timed, on the web, on Android, or offline on desktop.

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Questions held
363
Years covered
10
Questions per paper
40
Time allowed
40 min
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Sample Geography 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 Geography 2015 · Question 1
Which of the following African countries has the longest coast line?
  1. Somalia — correct answer
  2. Angola
  3. Kenya
  4. Sudan
Worked solution
Somalia, on the Horn of Africa, has the longest mainland coastline in Africa (over 3,000 km).
PUTME Geography 2014 · Question 1
A map drawn to a scale of 1:180 000 is reduced three times. What is the scale of the new map?
  1. 1:60 000
  2. 1:90 000
  3. 1:360 000
  4. 1:540 000 — correct answer
Worked solution
Reducing the map three times makes 1 unit on the new map represent three times as much ground: 180 000 × 3 = 540 000. The new scale is 1:540 000.
PUTME Geography 2013 · Question 1
The second Equinox in any year takes place during the month of
  1. March
  2. June
  3. September — correct answer
  4. December
Worked solution
The equinoxes fall on about 21 March and 23 September, so the second is in September.
PUTME Geography 2012 · Question 1
Which of the following is not a rapid type of mass movement?
  1. Solifluction — correct answer
  2. Rockfall
  3. Mudflow
  4. Debris slide
Worked solution
Solifluction is a slow downslope flow of waterlogged soil; rockfalls, mudflows and debris slides are rapid.
PUTME Geography 2011 · Question 1
Soils that are formed by wind deposition are called
  1. laterites
  2. Prairies
  3. Podsols
  4. Loess — correct answer
  5. Horizons
Worked solution
Loess is fine silt deposited by wind.
Every paper we hold

PUTME Geography, year by year.

2015
25 questions
2014
125 questions
2013
25 questions
2012
25 questions
2011
25 questions
2010
25 questions
2009
14 questions
2008
27 questions
2007
24 questions
2006
23 questions
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How PUTME Geography is set.

Post-UTME Screening sets 40 questions in Geography, 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 363 published Geography questions spanning 2006 to 2015. 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.

Every question you get wrong comes back the next day, then at longer gaps until it sticks, and your home page leads with your weakest subjects.

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