WAEC Civic Education 2021 past questions

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Ten questions from the 2021 WAEC Civic Education paper, with answers and explanations. We hold 43 questions from this paper, and the Skolra app has all of them.

WAEC Civic Education 2021 questions and answers

1. 1.Creating an enabling environment for someone to have control over his financial situation is known as
   1. A
      financial empowerment
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   2. B
      economic sanction
   3. C
      financial inclusion
   4. D
      financial regulation
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   Answer: A

   Creating conditions that allow a person to take control of and manage their own finances is what is meant by financial empowerment.
2. 2.Use the dialogue below to answer the question below. Mr. Ganaba: Mr. Kotoun, where are you going with hoe and cutlass ona day that has been set aside for the rescheduled gubernatorial election in our state? Mr. Katoun: I am going to the farm to harvest some tubers of yam for the next market day. I don't need to remind you that we have been made our own government. Therefore, the sale of this product is much more beneficial to me and my family than whoever becomes the next governor. As seen in the dialogue above, Mr. Ganaba is involved in an essential community service as
   1. A
      A politician canvassing for votes
   2. B
      A voter exercising his civic responsibility
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   3. C
      A trader conducting business
   4. D
      A farmer harvesting produce
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   Answer: B

   By reminding Mr. Katoun about the election, Mr. Ganaba shows concern for civic duty, consistent with someone going out to vote as an essential community service.
3. 3.Supervisory Councillors at the local government level are part of the
   1. A
      Judicial arm
   2. B
      Legislative arm
   3. C
      Traditional council
   4. D
      Executive arm
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   Answer: D

   Supervisory Councillors assist the chairman in running departments at the local government level, placing them within the executive arm of the council.
4. 4.The constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria from 1979 to 1999 have been
   1. A
      Operated only at the local government level
   2. B
      Stable and uninterrupted
   3. C
      Suspended and altered several times by military regimes
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   4. D
      Abolished permanently
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   Answer: C

   Between 1979 and 1999, Nigeria experienced repeated military takeovers that suspended and amended the constitution before the return to civil rule in 1999.
5. 5.The sole aim of youth empowerment is to
   1. A
      encourage youths to depend permanently on government welfare
   2. B
      provide white-collar jobs for all youths directly
   3. C
      restrict youths from participating in politics
   4. D
      equip youths with skills and resources to become self-reliant
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   Answer: D

   Youth empowerment is primarily about building capacity, skills and resources so young people can become self-reliant and contribute meaningfully to society.
6. 6.Associations, connections and affiliations between two or more people is what type of relationship?
   1. A
      legal relationship
   2. B
      economic relationship
   3. C
      political relationship
   4. D
      social relationship
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   Answer: D

   Associations, connections and affiliations between people describe a social relationship.
7. 7.Chalyn was sixteen years old. She was the sixth child in a family of nine. Chalyn's father and mother were both private workers who barely had time for the home. The new management of Chalyn's parents' workplace was incompetent and could not pay workers' salaries for several months. Chalyn became frustrated with the situation at home. One day she met some friends who capitalized on her situation and advised her to leave home if she wanted to live a good life and she obliged. She was introduced to a trafficking agent who took her abroad where she was compelled to engage in prostitution. Five years later, Chalyn was deported after she had contracted the deadly HIV/AIDS. Chalyn's ordeal would have been likely prevented through all the following means except
   1. A
      Civic education on the dangers of human trafficking
   2. B
      Close parental monitoring and communication with children
   3. C
      Granting her unrestricted freedom to travel abroad unsupervised
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   4. D
      Provision of financial support to struggling families
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   Answer: C

   Financial support, awareness education and close parental monitoring could have shielded Chalyn from traffickers, but allowing her unsupervised travel abroad is exactly the kind of exposure that enabled her trafficking rather than preventing it.
8. 8.Constitutional provisions cannot be derived from
   1. A
      Constitutional conventions
   2. B
      Acts of parliament
   3. C
      Judicial precedents
   4. D
      Religious doctrines
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   Answer: D

   Judicial precedents, conventions and acts of parliament are recognised sources from which constitutional provisions are drawn, but a secular constitution is not derived from religious doctrines.
9. 9.The deliberate effort to avoid behaving abnormally when faced with pressure can be termed
   1. A
      aggression
   2. B
      self-control
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   3. C
      susceptibility to peer pressure
   4. D
      recklessness
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   Answer: B

   Deliberately restraining oneself from reacting abnormally when under pressure is the essence of self-control.
10. 10.Politically enlightened people may still feel discouraged in the political affairs of their society because of political
    1. A
       Violence and thuggery
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    2. B
       High political awareness
    3. C
       Political tolerance
    4. D
       Apathy of the electorate
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    Answer: A

    Even enlightened citizens can be put off from active participation by the violence and thuggery that often accompany political activities in their society.

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