Logical Reasoning
JUPEB Use of English

Read the statement and answer the question. 'All the buses at the Jibowu park are air-conditioned.' Which of the following statements, if true, would prove this claim false?

Read the passage and answer the question. 'Three of the students I taught at the tutorial centre in Ilorin gained admission this year. Clearly, any student who attends that centre will gain admission.…

Read the statement and answer the question. 'Every candidate who scored above 250 in the mock examination was admitted into the science programme. Ngozi was not admitted into the science programme.' W…

Read the passage and answer the question. 'The council chairman argued that the market should be relocated because traders block the highway every morning. However, the traders pointed out that the bl…

Read the statement and answer the question. 'If the generator is serviced regularly, it will not break down during the examination. The generator broke down during the examination.' It follows that

Read the passage and answer the question. 'Enrolment at the community secondary school in Otukpo has doubled since the state government began the free lunch programme. This proves that free lunch is t…

Read the passage and answer the question. 'Nobody who has read Achebe's novels can doubt the richness of Igbo proverbs. Yet many young Nigerians today cannot complete a single proverb in their mother …

Choose the option that arranges the sentences into a coherent paragraph. (i) The results were released three weeks later. (ii) The candidates sat the examination in May. (iii) Those who passed were in…

Read the statement and answer the question. 'Some of the lecturers who marked the scripts are external examiners. All external examiners are paid in foreign currency.' Which of the following must be t…

Read the passage and answer the question. 'You cannot take Dr Okafor's warning about the dam seriously. He is a lecturer, and everybody knows lecturers are always on strike.' The speaker's reasoning i…

Read the statement and answer the question. 'Whenever the price of diesel rises, transport fares in Lagos rise within a week. Transport fares in Lagos did not rise last month.' Which of the following …

Read the passage and answer the question. 'Our neighbours in Ghana have adopted a single national examination for all polytechnics. Nigeria, with over a hundred polytechnics, should therefore do the s…

Which statement directly contradicts the claim that all the invigilators were present at the examination hall?

Identify the error in reasoning. 'Two graduates of that polytechnic were rude to me at the bank, so graduates of that polytechnic are rude people.'

Choose the word that best completes the analogy. Doctor is to hospital as teacher is to

Consider the two statements. All JUPEB candidates are secondary school leavers. Some secondary school leavers are farmers. Which conclusion follows with certainty?

If it rains, the football match is postponed. The match was not postponed. What follows logically?

Identify the error in reasoning. 'We should ignore Mr Bello's proposal on the state budget. After all, he failed economics at university.'

Choose the item that does NOT belong to the group.

No student who arrived after 9 a.m. was allowed to sit the paper. Chidi sat the paper. Which statement must be true?