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The NECO SSCE (June/July) is the National Examinations Council's final exam for Nigerian secondary school students. Like WAEC, each subject has an objective paper and a theory paper, and the syllabus covers the same topics.
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Choose the correct question tag: Ada bought a new phone, ___
Answer: B. A positive statement takes a negative tag using the same auxiliary and a pronoun for the subject: "Ada bought a new phone, didn't she?"
The idiom "to call a spade a spade" means to
Answer: D. To call a spade a spade is to describe something honestly and directly.
Choose the option that best completes the sentence: Ten kilometres ___ a long distance to walk.
Answer: D. A distance treated as one amount takes a singular verb.
Choose the option nearest in meaning to the word in capitals: She is METICULOUS in her work.
Answer: B. "Meticulous" means showing great attention to detail.
Choose the correct passive form: "The boy broke the window."
Answer: B. The object becomes the subject, and the verb becomes "was broken".
Choose the word that has the same vowel sound as "cat".
Answer: A. "Cat" and "bad" share the short /æ/ sound.
Choose the correctly spelt word.
Answer: A. "Accommodate" has a double c and a double m.
"The wind whispered through the trees" is an example of
Answer: C. Personification gives human qualities (whispering) to things.
Choose the correct reported speech: She said, "I am tired."
Answer: C. In reported speech, "I am" becomes "she was" after a past reporting verb.
What does the expression "a blessing in disguise" mean?
Answer: B. "a blessing in disguise" means something good that at first seemed bad.
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| Topic | Questions |
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| Vocabulary | 254 |
| Question tags | 64 |
| Idioms | 50 |
| Spelling | 49 |
| Prepositions | 40 |
| Concord | 39 |
| Plurals | 34 |
| Oral English | 9 |
| Grammar | 7 |