2015 - JAMB English Past Questions and Answers - page 2

While entering Mr Mallum’s office, Jimi and Seyi Lawal met two persons coming out of the principal’s office, they were Efua and her mother. The others in the options were not present at the time of the event

After Wole had look round the room and found everything still intact, he picked up a watch beside Jimi’s music CDs with his exact words in chapter 1’ man, this is some watch Must have cost a mountain, You always get all the nicest things,why…?’

The wrongly spelt word is "posses". The correct spelling is "possess". The other words are correctly spelt.

The novel described Teacher Bade as “cane” because he was always waiting for the next helpless kid who will fail into his trap

The correct answer is ‘B’ privilege which means (a peculiar benefit, advantage, or favour; a right or immunity not enjoyed by others by others or by all. The others are wrongly spelt.

The vowel sound in "Seat" is a long "e" sound, as in the word "see." * **A.** hide - has the "ai" sound, which is different. * **B.** peasant - has the "e" sound, which is different. * **C.** head - has the "e" sound, which is different. * **D.** people - has the long "e" sound.

The answer is B because the word ‘pass’ is transcribes /pa:s/ and is a longer form of /ae/. In the options above the word ‘earth’ /Ʒ:o/ or /Ʒ or o/, ‘lass’ /wes/ but the word ‘clerk’/kla:k/ has the same long vowel sound as pass /pa:s/