As the 2024 Civil Service evaluation approaches, we have created and compiled a brief practice test for those who want to have a feel of what the exam will be like. Find below the questions for your perusal. At the end of the test, you will find the right answers to each question.
The Civil Service Practice Test:
Please note that the test below is designed to stimulate the nature and format of the actual test you may encounter. While it aims to prepare you for the exam, it may not necessarily reflect the exact content you may face on the day of the examination. Use this as a valuable practice tool to enhance your preparedness and familiarize yourself with the nature of the test.
1. A packaging machine can package 40 items in 8 minutes. How many machines, working simultaneously, are required to package 120 items per minute?
A) 3 Machines
B) 24 Machines
C) 60 Machines
D) 28 Machines
2. It takes Chelsea three hours to drive to her bestfriend’s house at an average speed of 50 miles per hour. If She takes the same route home, but his average speed is 60 miles per hour, what is the time, in hours, that it takes him to drive home
A) 2 hours and 33 minutes
B) 2 hours and 30 minutes
C) 2 hours and 3 minutes
D) 2 hours and 60 minutes
3 hours
3. In an election the winner received 3/7 of the total vote. If the total number of votes cast were 700000, what number of votes did the winner receive?
A) 100,000 votes
B) 200,000 votes
C) 300,000 votes
D) 400,000 votes
4. The cost of planting cocoa in Ghana is twenty percent less than the cost of planting cocoa in Nigeria. Even after transportation fees and import taxes are added, it is still cheaper to import cocoa from Ghana to Nigeria than to plant cocoa in Nigeria.
Which of the following assertions is best supported by this information?
A) Labor costs in Ghana are twenty percent below those in Nigeria.
B) Importing cocoa into Nigeria will eliminate twenty percent of the farming jobs in Nigeria
C) The costs of transporting cocoa from Ghana to Nigeria is more than twenty percent of the cost of growing the cocoa Ghana.
D) The import taxes on cocoa imported from Ghana to Nigeria is less than twenty percent of the cost of growing cocoa in Nigeria.
5. In the national university Football league, the record of the teams is as follows:
UCC has won the fewest games followed in ascending order by UG, UENR and KNUST. UEW is one game ahead of UENR. KNUST and Ashesi are two games ahead of UEW. UENR and KNUST have won an equal number of games. UENR wins the next match.
A) UG
B) UENR
C) Ashesi
D) KNUST
6. The price of both the Sony VM1 and the LG VX2 video monitors were reduced in the annual sale. Which item was reduced by the larger amount?
Statement 1 – The price of the Sony VM1 was reduced by 20%.
Statement 2 – The price of the LG VX2 was reduced by 50%.
Which of the statements above make it possible to answer the question.
A) Statement 1 alone is sufficient, but statement 2 alone is not sufficient.
B) Statement 2 alone is sufficient, but statement 1 alone is not sufficient.
C) Each statement alone is sufficient.
D) Statements 1 and 2 together are not sufficient.
7. During the past four days over one hundred students at the university of Ghana have reported symptoms of amoebic food poisoning, but only five students have tested positive for the condition. According to a public health inspector, the suspected outbreak can be traced back to a shipment of pork used by the refectory as an element in a variety of meals served four days prior.
Which of the following statements best supports the health inspectors claims?
A) Food poisoning symptoms last only a few days.
B) People with amoebic food poisoning often do not exhibit symptoms for five days after contracting it.
C) A person can test positive for amoebic food poisoning without exhibiting any symptoms.
D) People with amoebic food poisoning do not usually test positive until at least four days after the onset of symptoms.
8. In the city of Accra, there is a population of 100,000. Exactly 70% of the population are residents of Accra and 55% are over 21 years of age. How many people are eligible to vote?
Statement 1: Exactly 75% of residents have completed national service.
Statement 2: Only residents over 21 years old have completed their national service and are allowed to vote.
which of the following statements above makes it possible to answer the question?
A) Statement 1 only
B) Statement 2 only
C) Both Statements
D) None of the statements
9. Twenty percent of the teams competing in the 2026 World Cup championships are from Europe. Half of them are from the United States, while one-twentieth come from Africa. What fraction of teams are not from Europe, the US, or Africa.
A)31/48
B) 17/48
C) 3/7
D) 2/5
10. Approximately 23,670 physicians who had not treated plague patients and 11,400 physicians who had treated patients died in 1695. These numbers lead one to the conclusion that treating plague patients was not as risky for doctors as it was for them to participate.Which of the following claims most likely calls into question the previous conclusion?
A) Expressing the difference between the numbers of deaths among doctors who had treated plague sufferers and doctors who had not treated plague suffers as a percentage of the total number of deaths.
B) Examining the death rates for doctors in the years before and after 1695.
C) Separating deaths due to natural causes during the treatment of plague suffers from deaths caused by other causes.
D) Comparing death rates per thousand members of each group rather than comparing total numbers of deaths.
Answers
- B
- B
- C
- D
- B
- D
- D
- B
- A
How To Pass A Civil Service Aptitude Examination
Even though taking practice test like the ones above can enhance your chances of passing the assessment, there are other things you need to do in order to always be on top of your game. If you strictly follow the tips below, you will stand a higher chance of succeeding.
- Familiarize yourself with the different types of logical reasoning questions commonly asked such as, deductive reasoning, logical puzzles, syllogisms etc
- Avoid jumping into conclusions without sufficient evidence (ie. when right after reading a question)
- Pay particular attention to every detail in a question and all possible answers. Often the correct answer hinges on a small but important detail
- Don’t get stuck on one difficult question; move and revisit it later if you still have time
- Logical reasoning questions can be especially challenging but you have to stay calm and focused. Panicking will affect your thinking ability and possibly force you to choose the wrong answers
- During your practice/mock sessions, analyse your mistakes and learn them. Understanding why you were wrong will surely prevent you from repeating the same mistakes
- It is also very important to stay up-to-date with current affairs and general knowledge. Sometimes, questions may include elements from recent events/developments
