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1,434 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 Physics 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 Physics 2025 · Question 1
Which of the following is the SI unit of electric current?
  1. Volt
  2. Ampere — correct answer
  3. Ohm
  4. Watt
Worked solution
The ampere (A) is the SI base unit of electric current. The volt measures potential difference, the ohm measures resistance and the watt measures power.
PUTME Physics 2024 · Question 1
How long will it take a 1000 W heater to raise the temperature of 0.5 kg of water from 15 °C to 95 °C? [Specific heat capacity of water = 4200 J kg−1^{-1} K−1^{-1}]
  1. 168.0 s — correct answer
  2. 321.0 s
  3. 31.5 s
  4. 149.5 s
Worked solution
Pt=mcΔθPt = mc\Delta\theta, so t=0.5×4200×801000=168.0t = \frac{0.5 \times 4200 \times 80}{1000} = 168.0 s.
PUTME Physics 2023 · Question 1
The thickness of the central portion of a thin converging lens can be determined very accurately by using
  1. vernier calipers
  2. a micrometer screw gauge — correct answer
  3. a telescope
  4. a microscope
Worked solution
A micrometer screw gauge measures small thicknesses to 0.01 mm, far more accurately than vernier calipers (0.1 mm).
PUTME Physics 2022 · Question 3
The speed of sound in air at sea level is 340 ms−1340\text{ ms}^{-1} while that of light is 300000 kms−1300000\text{ kms}^{-1}. How far (to the nearest metre) from the centre of a thunderstorm is an observer who hears a thunder 2 s after a lightning flash?
  1. 170 m
  2. 340 m
  3. 60 m
  4. 680 m — correct answer
Worked solution
The light arrives practically instantly, so the 2 s delay is the travel time of sound. Distance =340×2=680= 340 \times 2 = 680 m.
PUTME Physics 2021 · Question 1
The diagram shows the positions of the bob of a simple pendulum. At which of these positions does the bob have maximum kinetic energy and minimum potential energy?
PUTME Physics 2021 · Question 1 figure
  1. Position A — correct answer
  2. Position B
  3. Position C
  4. Point S
Worked solution
At the mean (centre) position A the bob is lowest, so its potential energy is minimum and its speed, hence kinetic energy, is maximum.
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2025
10 questions
2024
92 questions
2023
63 questions
2022
31 questions
2021
78 questions
2020
24 questions
2019
78 questions
2018
64 questions
2017
55 questions
2016
35 questions
2015
46 questions
2014
10 questions
2013
10 questions
2012
30 questions
2011
20 questions
2010
51 questions
2009
40 questions
2008
55 questions
2007
80 questions
2006
65 questions
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