Sample of English Language Questions and Answers for WASSCE 2023 Candidates

Sample of English Language Questions and Answers for WASSCE 2023 Candidates: As you prepare to go in for your WASSCE 2023 Examination come July 2023, here are Sample of English Language Questions and Answers for studies.

These questions were sampled from the WASSCE previous years exams. You can consider them as past questions. Solving them will help you in your studies and your final waec examination .

Please note that, Waecgh does not have new questions. Most of the questions that come in WASSCE are repeated from the previous years exams. So it is always advisable to solve more of these questions.

You may not know when you’ll meet them in your final exams. So without being said, find below Sample of English Language Questions and Answers for WASSCE 2023 Candidates.

SECTION A – ESSAY WRITING

Answer one question only from this section. Your answer should be about 450 words long.

Q1. Write a letter to your father who is living. abroad telling him about some difficulties you are experiencing.

Q2. Write an article suitable for publication / in a national newspaper on the roles of traditional rulers in community development.

Q3. Write a letter to the editor of a national newspaper discussion the misuse of public property and suggesting ways of curbing it.

Q4. As the main speaker in the debate organized by a school, write your argument for or against the motion:
Poor reading culture is responsible for the falling standard of education.

Q5. Write a story to illustrate the saying: The early bird catches the worm.

SECTION B COMPREHENSION

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions on it.

Q6.

Knowing how best to use a dictionary wi save one a lot of agony Some students do not have the slightest idea of how to find a word in the dictionary. The first step in mastering the use of a dictionary is to realize that words are arranged alphabetical!; and not just scattered anyhow. For instance, one would expect to find words beginning with the letter ‘a’ on the first pages of the dictionary while words beginning with ‘b’ would come next, followed by those beginning with ‘c’ and so on, till one comes to words starting with ‘x’, ‘y’ and ‘z’. Furthermore, within each of these word groups, further alphabetical arrangement are made, such that within the ‘a’ word family, for instance, words with ‘aa’ would be found before those with ‘ab’. Therefore the word ‘aardvark’, which is the name of an animal, would be found before ‘abacus’ a counting instrument. This principle obtains for each of the word groups throughout the dictionary.

If one has an idea of the size of the dictionary, and the position of a particular letter in the alphabet, one can tap such knowledge to determine quickly where in the dictionary a particular word can be found. For instance, knowing that ‘L’ and ‘M come right in the middle of the alphabetical list should guide one’s steps straight to the middle of the dictionary for words like ‘land’, “lime’, ‘maintain’, ‘millennium’, etc. With such knowledge, one will realize that it is futile looking for an ‘s’ word in the first half of y dictionary because ‘s’ comes much later than ‘m’. This principle should enable one to decide the approximate position of any word before consulting the dictionary.

Apart from giving the meaning of words, the dictionary often gives a very good hint on their proper usage. For instance, it shows the preposition which should follow a verb to get a a specific meaning. Consider the expressions ‘to take over’, ‘to take up’, and ‘to take on’, have different meanings. Each phrasal verb is explained with examples. Besides, good dictionary indicates idiomatic and figurative uses of certain words. It also often indicates when a word is used informally, when it is outdated, or when it has several meanings. So, a dictionary should be seen as a versatile tool in the hands of a student.

(a) What is the purpose of the writer in this passage?

(b) What is the key to the mastery of the of the dictionary?

(c) What is the advantage of mastering the principle discussed in the passage?

(d) This principle…..

Which principle is being referred to?

(e) What does the writer mean by saying that? the dictionary is a versatile tool?

(f) ……… guide one’s steps straight to the middle of! the dictionary..

What figure of speech is used in the expression above?

(g) ……..which is the name of an animal.

(i) What is the grammatical name given to this expression as it is used in the passage?

(ii). What is its function?

(h) For each of the following words, find another word or phrase which means the same and which can replace it as it is used-in the passage.

(i) agony;
(ii) scattered;
(iii) tap;
(iv) Realize
(v) hint
(vi) Outdated

SECTION C (SUMMARY)

Read the following passage carefully and answer, in your own words as far as possible, the questions on it.

Most people in the world do not make things happen. Rather, there is just a small percentage of people who make things happen, who make the world go round.
These few are those who think of new concepts, brainstorm intensively on them, and bring them to reality. Thus, they end up as inventors, political thinkers and actors, great scientists, manufacturers, company owners and consequently, employers of labour. As a result of their activities, they become powerful and influential, usually but not necessarily wealthy. In most cases, they are in positions that decide the fate of thousands of other people. However, they have one great shortcoming: they are very often restless. Always active, forever thinking of new things, they hardly ever have the grace to rest and enjoy the fruit of their labour. This is why some of them never live long; after all, a brooms that sweeps continually wears out quickly.

The next category of people are far greater in number than the first. These are those who see to the actualisation of the dream of the first category of people. They are hired to see to it that the work initiated by the thinkers is done. Whether they are highly trained technocrats or entirely untrained labourers, they carry out the instructions carefully crafted by the thinkers and planners. They are the interpreters of dreams. For their roles, they may end up just earning their daily bread, earning just enough to feed their families or as very comfortable millionaires, able to live in good accommodation, rented or owned. But the fact remains that they are highly vulnerable since the brains that hired them may easily fire them.

Finally, these are those who form the bulk of humanity, those at the very bottom of the pyramid. These are people just passing through the world without any clear idea of what their roles are. They do not initiate any programme, or think of creating anything, and most often do not possess any skills. They live off those in the higher echelons of life. In effect, they do not decide the fate of others but have their decided for them; they cannot be a live about what tomorrow has for them or where they will find themselves the next day. However, because of their numerical strength, they should be the most powerful block since in a democracy they could determine who gets the political power. In reality however, they hardly ever utilize this potential power and are thus most often ignored by the few in authority. So, indeed, they are the most vulnerable to all.

(a) In three sentences, one for each, identify the three categories of people described in the passage.

(b) In three sentences one for each, summarize the disadvantage of each category.

ANSWERS TO COMPREHENSION

Q6.

(a) The writer’s purpose is to teach or educate or help or enlighten learners how to use the dictionary.

(b) The key to the mastery of the use of the dictionary is to realize that words in it are arranged in alphabetical order.

(c) The advantage is that one can use the dictionary efficiently. OR One can locate a word easily.OR One can find a word easily.

(d) The principle referred to is that the alphabetic arrangement of words determines their relative positions in the dictionary.

(e) The writer means that it serves many purposes. OR The writer means that it has many uses. OR The writer means that it is multipurpose tool.

(f) Metaphor

(i) Adjectival clause or relative clause

(ii) It gives more information about the noun ‘aardvark”. OR

(iii) It qualifies or modifies or describes the noun “aardvark”.

(h)

(i) Agony – trouble, worry, problems, pains

(ii) Scattered – spread, put, strewn

(iii) Tap – use, make use of, apply, draw on, utilize

(iv) Realize – understand, recognize, find out, discover, become aware, learn, get to know

(v) Hint – clue, indication

(vi) Outdated – outmoded, obsolete, archaic, no longer in use, old-fashioned, out-of-date, antiquated

Answers to Summary

Q7.

(a)

(i) The first category are the thinkers. OR The first category are those who make things happen.

(ii) The second category actualize or implement or help to realize the dreams of the thinkers.

(iii) The third category are those without initiative of skills.

(b)

(i) The first category are usually restless. OR The first category do not live long.

(ii) The second category can be fired at will

(iii) The third category are in the majority but are unable to use their numerical strength or power or are often ignored.

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