WASSCE 2016 November Social Studies Past Questions and Answers
The WASSCE 2016 November Social Studies paper has 49 objective and 10 theory questions. Here are sample objective questions with the correct answers and explanations. Sit the full paper with the real time limit on ePrep.
Sample questions with answers
1. An individual's self-concept can best be enhanced through
- A. education and training.
- B. joining a club.
- C. inter-personal relations.
- D. superiority complex.
Answer: A. education and training.
Answer: A. Education and training build knowledge and skills, which raise a person's view of themselves.
Answer: A. Education and training build knowledge and skills, which raise a person's view of themselves.
2. In Maslow's Theory of Needs, a local chorister who realizes her long term dream of performing for an international band satisfies the
- A. esteem need.
- B. self-actualization need.
- C. physiological need.
- D. social need.
Answer: B. self-actualization need.
Answer: B. Achieving a lifelong dream and full potential is self-actualization, the top of Maslow's hierarchy.
Answer: B. Achieving a lifelong dream and full potential is self-actualization, the top of Maslow's hierarchy.
3. The sum total of the unique characteristics of a person, including emotions, intelligence, attitude and interests refers to
- A. culture.
- B. development.
- C. growth.
- D. self.
Answer: D. self.
Answer: D. The self is the total of a person's unique characteristics: emotions, intelligence, attitudes and interests.
Answer: D. The self is the total of a person's unique characteristics: emotions, intelligence, attitudes and interests.
4. Which of the following diseases is sexually transmitted?
- A. Cholera
- B. Fever
- C. Malaria
- D. Syphilis
Answer: D. Syphilis
Answer: D. Syphilis is spread through sexual contact.
Answer: D. Syphilis is spread through sexual contact.
5. Which of the following measures is not a way of preventing teenage pregnancy?
- A. Encouragement of adolescent chastity
- B. Provision of moral training
- C. Provision of sex education
- D. Rehabilitation of teenage mothers
Answer: D. Rehabilitation of teenage mothers
Answer: D. Rehabilitating teenage mothers helps them after pregnancy; it does not prevent pregnancy.
Answer: D. Rehabilitating teenage mothers helps them after pregnancy; it does not prevent pregnancy.
6. Knowledge of reproductive health helps the adolescent to
- A. cope with their emotional problems.
- B. increase their fitness level.
- C. increase in social contacts.
- D. obtain good grades in school.
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8. A highly cherished virtue in the Ghanaian traditional society is
- A. boasting of one's wealth.
- B. having enough assets.
- C. respect for the elderly.
- D. sex before marriage.
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9. One basic feature of marriage under ordinance is that it is
- A. endogamous.
- B. monogamous.
- C. polyandrous.
- D. polygynous.
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10. A successful marriage depends on both partners
- A. being gainfully employed.
- B. belonging to the same clan.
- C. being highly religious.
- D. exhibiting genuine love.
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11. One negative effect of urbanization of the extended family system in Ghana is
- A. interference in individual members' personal affairs.
- B. unhealthy competition among family members.
- C. disregard for traditional values and norms.
- D. fragmentation of family land.
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