WASSCE 2018 Social Studies Past Questions and Answers
The WASSCE 2018 Social Studies paper has 48 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. According to Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs Theory, the basic need on man's scale of preference is
- A. achievement.
- B. food.
- C. friendship.
- D. stability.
Answer: B. food.
Answer: B. Food is a physiological need, the most basic level of Maslow's hierarchy.
Answer: B. Food is a physiological need, the most basic level of Maslow's hierarchy.
2. One factor which hinders the development of the individual's capabilities is
- A. conducive home environment.
- B. education and training.
- C. guidance and counselling.
- D. reliance on others for initiative.
Answer: D. reliance on others for initiative.
Answer: D. Relying on others to take the initiative stops a person from developing his or her own abilities.
Answer: D. Relying on others to take the initiative stops a person from developing his or her own abilities.
3. To accomplish a task successfully, the individual above all needs
- A. self-esteem.
- B. self-reliance.
- C. intelligence.
- D. determination.
Answer: D. determination.
Answer: D. Determination keeps a person going until the task is done.
Answer: D. Determination keeps a person going until the task is done.
4. The abuse of drugs is considered as
- A. group interest.
- B. social behaviour.
- C. deviant behaviour.
- D. personal misapplication.
Answer: C. deviant behaviour.
Answer: C. Drug abuse breaks society's norms, so it is deviant behaviour.
Answer: C. Drug abuse breaks society's norms, so it is deviant behaviour.
5. Responsible behaviour of adolescents often
- A. leads to early marriage.
- B. leads to teenage pregnancy.
- C. encourages chastity before marriage.
- D. results in human right protection in the society.
Answer: C. encourages chastity before marriage.
Answer: C. Responsible adolescents abstain from sex until marriage.
Answer: C. Responsible adolescents abstain from sex until marriage.
6. Which of the following options is the main objectives associate with the celebration of festivals in Ghana?
- A. An occasion to showcase what one has worked for
- B. Home coming of members for development
- C. Occasion to attract tourists
- D. Opportunity to sell artefacts
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7. Which of the following socio-cultural practices infringe on the rights of the individual and should therefore be abolished in the Ghanaian society?
- A. Ancestral worship
- B. Chieftaincy
- C. Female circumcision
- D. Traditional marriage
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8. National symbols play the following significant roles except
- A. fostering national integration.
- B. portraying our taboos.
- C. reflecting the wisdom of the people.
- D. serving as a means of communication.
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9. In Ghanaian traditional society, the first stage of contracting marriage is
- A. family.
- B. ordinance.
- C. religious.
- D. traditional.
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10. Marriage is best sustained through
- A. guidance and counselling.
- B. love and understanding.
- C. money and material wealth.
- D. sexual satisfaction and beauty.
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