WAEC Past Questions and Answers - Page 2509

12,541.

Use of hard drugs can best be curtailed through

A.

Compensation

B.

Rehabilitation

C.

Enlightenment

D.

Compromise

Correct answer is B

Rehabilitation is the action and process of restoring someone to health or normal life through training and therapy after imprisonment, addiction, or illness.

12,542.

If an individual persist in the use of hard drugs, such individual is likely to exibit

A.

Hostile attitudes towards religious organisation

B.

Unfriendly disposition towards foreigners

C.

Oppressive behaviour

D.

Emotional illness and aggression

Correct answer is D

Drug addiction can cause many long-term negative effects, including physical health problems like liver damage and heart disease as well as mental / emotional illnesses like depression and anxiety disorders. Drug abuse also causes long-term changes to the brain that make quitting so difficult and takes years to change back to normal.

 

12,543.

Drugs abuse often lead to

A.

Sexually transmitted disease

B.

Cancerous illness

C.

Psychiatric disorder

D.

Incurable ailment

Correct answer is C

A psychiatric disorder is a mental illness diagnosed by a mental health professional that greatly disturbs your thinking, moods, and/or behavior and seriously increases your risk of disability, pain, death, or loss of freedom. A person who abuses drugs is prone to this disorder.

12,544.

Which of the following is not responsible for cult activities in in school and colleges?

A.

Perceived injustice

B.

Satisfaction of membership aspiration

C.

Personal protection

D.

Preservation of cultural heritage

Correct answer is D

In Nigeria schools, the main reason why people become cultist is to fight those who supposedly oppress them, the ''wicked lecturer'', school authorities and the opposite cult members. Others enter into this gangs because they believe they will be untouchable, which is infact a fallacy. No wonder, the countless cases of murder, bloodshed, revenge in schools with high cultism rate.

12,545.

From the above dialogue, which of the following is likely to happen if cultism is eradicated from our campus?

A.

Uninterrupted school programme

B.

Increase in the remuneration of staffs of higher institution

C.

Provision of scholarship to the student

D.

Amicable resolution of dispute

Correct answer is A

No explanation has been provided for this answer.