WAEC Releases Computing Sample Questions For The 2024 BECE

The West African Examination Council (WAEC) has released sample Computing questions for the 2024 BECE. Let’s take a look at the full list of questions.

WAEC COMPUTING SAMPLE QUESTIONS

PAPER 1 (OBJECTIVE)

Candidates are expected to answer 40 questions on this paper. Each question is followed by four options lettered A to D. Find the correct option for each question and shade in pencil on your answer sheet the answer space which bears the same letter as the option you have chosen. Give only one answer to each question.

Section A: Computer Basics

1. Which program icon on the desktop leads to the disk drives?
A. Internet Explorer
B. My Computer
C. My Document
D. My Network Places

2. The Fourth Generation of computers is associated with
A. vacuum tubes.
B. semi-conductors.
C. transistors.
D. microprocessor.

3. To underline selected text in a Word document, use the keys
A. Ctrl + U
B. Shift + U
C. Alt + U
D. Del + U

4. The default MS PowerPoint layout is
A. section header.
B. title only.
C. two content.
D. title slide.

5. Which of the following measures is used to evaluate a webpage to ensure how true the information acquired is?
A. Currency
B. Content
C. Credible
D. Accuracy

Section B: Computer Science Concepts

6. A bit that is turned OFF represents
A. 1
B. –1
C. 0
D. ±1

7. The step-by-step approach used in solving a specific problem is
A. sequencing.
B. selection.
C. algorithm.
D. iteration.

8. Convert 15ten to a binary
A. 11112
B. 11102
C. 10112
D. 11012

9. The robotic component that allows the robot to interact with its environment such as movement and manipulation are
A. sensors.
B. actuators.
C. power source.
D. control systems.

10. In querying an expert system, the IF-THEN control structure
A. provides information on the use of the system.
B. specifies the reason for querying the system.
C. provides information about the user of the system.
D. specifies a condition and an action to be taken.

PAPER 2 (ESSAY)

This paper is in two sections. A and B. Candidates are expected to answer Question 1 in section A and any other three questions in Section B.

SECTION A
[24 marks]
Answer Question 1 [Compulsory]

1. The Head of your school presented the program shown in Fig. 1 to the school’s Programming Club. The program creates usernames for students in the school. Members of the Club were then tasked to discuss and answer the questions that follow:

Fig. 1

Using the process in Fig 1, Kojo Baah’s username would be KojoBa.

(a) Write the name of Fig 1:
………………………………………………………..
………………………………………………………..
[2 marks]

(b) Using the process in Fig 1, create the username for Patience Mensah.
………………………………………………………..
[2 marks]

Fig 1 is updated to create usernames as follows: username is the last 3 letters of surname and the first 2 letters of first name.

(d) What will be the username for a student called Mark Elolo using the updated process?
………………………………………………………..
[4 marks]

(e) Write an algorithm for the updated process in (d).
………………………………………………………..
………………………………………………………..
………………………………………………………..
[14 marks]

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SECTION B

[36 marks]

Candidates are expected to answer three questions only from this section.

2. (a) Discuss one feature each of the fourth generation computers in terms of:

(i) cost:
………………………………………………………..

(ii) processor:
………………………………………………………..
[6 marks]

(b) Describe three features of the computer mouse.
(i)
………………………………………………………..

(ii)
………………………………………………………..

(iii)
………………………………………………………..
[6 marks]

3. (a) Describe the best way to resize a picture in order to avoid distorting its aspect ratio.
………………………………………………………..
………………………………………………………..
[3 marks]

(b) Differentiate between the Save and the Save As commands. Give one example each in both cases.
………………………………………………………..
………………………………………………………..
[6 marks]

(c) Kojo Talata designed a brochure which contains texts and images. He is finding it difficult to write the texts around the images as the desktop publishing application is not allowing that. What tool will be applicable to achieve the task?

………………………………………………………..
………………………………………………………..
[3 marks]