2014 IMMIGRATION TEST QUESTIONS : THE KILLER TEST QUESTIONS

The 2014 Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) Recruitment Exercise which resulted in lots of injuries and death has conveniently been titled " the killer recruitment exercise", " a show of national shame" , " job seeker's reunion and parade" and lots other titles.
 

Equally disturbing was the service's "killer questions" served to candidates during the test exercise.Candidates were required to answer each of the 30 questions within a time frame of one minutes, yet in their confession, each question requires "critical reasoning and thinking on the part of the candidate" . 

Thus, most candidates - rather than leave the questions unanswered - randomly shaded options from each question before submitting. As one candidate remarked to me after his test : " Not even the Controller General of the service can answer these questions in 30minutes"
 

Questions rendered below are not the complete set of 30 questions served to university graduates at one of the centres

 You may however have fun brainstorming the question...

Start of the questions

1. A genealogist has determined that M, N, P, Q, R, S and T are the father, the mother, the aunt, the brother, the sister, the wife and the daughter of X but she has been unable to determine which person has which status. She does know :

    P and Q are of the same sex
    M and N are not of the same sex
    S was born before M
    Q is not the mother of X

Question : How many of the seven people M, N, P, Q, R, S and T are female ?
(a) 3 (b) 4 (c) 5 (d) 6 (e) 7
 

Question : Which of the following must be true ?
(a) M is a female
(b) N is a female
(c) P is a female
(d) Q is a male
(e) S is a male
 

Question : If T is the daughter of X which of the following must be true ?
(a) M and P are of the same sex
(b) M and Q are of the same sex
(c) P is not of the same sex as N
(d) R is not of the same sex as S
(e) S is not of the same sex as T
 

Question : If M and Q are sisters, all of the following must be true except
(a) N is a male
(b) M is X's mother
(c) Q is X's aunt
(d) T is X's daughter
(e) S is not X's brother
 

Question : If S is N's grandfather then which of the following must be true ?
(a) R is N's aunt
(b) X is P's son
(c) M is X's brother
(d) Q is S's husband
(e) P is N's aunt
 

Question : If M is X's wife, all of the following could be true except
(a) S is X's daughter
(b) P is X's sister
(c) Q is X's sister
(d) R is X's father
(e) N is X's brother

A farmer has 3 fields, 1,2,3 and he is deciding which crop to plant. The crops are F, G, H, I and J
 

 F will grow only in field 1 and 3 but in order for F to grow, it must be fertilized with X
  G will grow in field 1,2 and 3 but in order for G to grow, fertilizer X must be used.
  H will grow in field 1,2 and 3 but in order for H to grow in field 3, it must be fertilized with Y
  I will grow only in field 2 and 3 but in order for I to grow in field 2, it must be sprayed with pesticide Z and  in order for I to grow in field 3 it must be sprayed with Z.

Question : It is possible to grow which of the following crops together in field 1 ?
(a) F and G
(b) F and J
(c) G and H
(d) J and H
(e) J and G
 

Question : It is possible for which of the following group of crops to grow together in field 2 ?
(a) F, G and H
(b) F, H and I
(c) G, H and J
(d) G, I and J
(e) H, I and J
 

Question : Which of the following is a complete and accurate list of crops that will grow alone in field 2 if the only pesticides or  fertilizer used is Y ?
(a) F
(b) F and H
(c) G and H
(d) G, H and J
(e) G, H, I and J
 

Question : Which of the following pair of crops will grow together in field 3 if no other crops are planted in the field and no fertilizer or pesticides are applied ?
(a) F and H
(b) F and I
(c) G and H
(d) G and I
(e) H and J
 

Question : Which is the maximum number of different crops that can be planted together in field 3 ?
 

(a) 1 (b) 2 (c) 3 (d) 4 (e) 5
 

Question : Which of the following is a complete and accurate list of crops that will grow alone in field 2 if only pesticide or fertilizer is applied
 

(a) H, J (b) I, G (c) I, H (d) I, J (e) J, G

"The Problem in this test involves a certain amount of critical reasoning and thinking on your part. Read each question carefully and choose the correct answer from the multiple choices that follow. "
 

Question : A national travel survey in 2007 found that Nigerians took 382.6 million trips within and outside of the country. Lagos was destination of 38 million trips. Approximately what percent of the trips had Lagos as the destination ?
 

(a) 0.01% (b) 0.1% (c) 1% (d) 3.8% (e) 10%
 

Question : The taxi fares were N 1.00 for the first mile and N 0.20 for each 1mile 55 thereafter, then the taxi fare for 3 mile ride was ?
 

(a) N 1.56 (b) N 2.40 (c) N 3.00 (d) N 3.80 (e) N 4.20
 

Question : A warehouse had a square floor with area 10,000 square metres. A rectangular addition was built along one entire side of the warehouse that increased the floor area by one-half as much as the original floor area. How much metre did the extension extend the original building ?
 

(a) 10 (b) 20 (c) 50 (d) 200 (e) 500
 

Question : A digital wrist watch was set accurately at 8:30am, the watch then lost 2 seconds every 5 minutes. What time is indicated on the watch at 6:30pm of the same day, assuming the watch operated continuously until that time ?
 

(a)... (b) 5:58 (c) 6:00 (d) 6:23 (e) 6:26
 

Question : A merchant sells an item at a 20 percent discount but still makes a gross profit of 20 percent of the cost. What percent of the cost would the gross profit on the item have been if it had been sold without the discount ?
 

(a) 20% (b) 40% (c) 50%  (d) 60% (e) 75%
 

Question : Each step of a staircase is 0.25m wide anf 0.20m high, as shown in the figure above ( no figure or shape was provided ). All angles shown in the figure are right angles. If the height of the staircase is 3.6m and the landing at the top of the staircase is 1m wide. How long, in metre is AB ?
 

(a) 3.0 (b) 4.25 (c) 4.5 (d) 5.25 (e) 5.5
 

Question : The table above ( no image, shape or figure was provided ) shows the number of tickets sold during each of the first 4 weeks after a movie release. The producer of the movie received 10% of the revenue for every ticket sold with a guaranteed minimum of N 200,000 each week for the first 4weeks. If the tickets sold for N4 each, how much did the producer receive for the first for weeks ?
 

(a) N800,000 (b) N900,000 (c) N1,000,000 (d) N1,200,000 (e) 1,300,000
 

Question : Some stack containing equal numbers of chips are to be made from 9 red chips, 7 blue chips and 5 green chips. If all of these chips are used and each stack contain at least 1 chips of each colour, what is the maximum number of read chips in any one stack ?
 

(a) 7 (b) 6 (c) 5 (d) 4 (e) 3
 

Question : Three automobiles travel distance that are in the ratio of 1:2:3. If the ratio of the traveling times over these distances for those automobiles are 3:2:1 in the same respective order, what are the ratio of their respective average speed ?
 

(a) 1:1:1 (b) 1:3:3 (c) 1:3:9 (d) 3:2:1 (e) 3:4:3
 

Question : Over the last three years, a scientist had an average (arithmetic mean) yearly income of N45,000. The scientist earned 11/2 times as much the second year as the first year and 21/2 times as much as the third year as the first year. What was the scientist's income the second year ?
 

(a) N9,000 (b) N13,500 (c)N27,500 (d) N40,500 (e) N45,000
 

Question : How many two digit whole numbers yield a remainder of 1 when divided by 10 and also yield a remainder of 1 when divided by 6 ?
 

(a) none (b) one (c) two (d) three (e) four.

Did you answer any question and how long did it take you to do so ?