Here is the Ghana Prisons Service Aptitude Test Exams Questions & Answers for Ghana Prisons Service recruits.
These test question and answers are under the control of the Ministry of interior. The upcoming Ghana Prisons Service officers take the exams at designated Ghana Prisons Service Processing Stations, and schools across the country.
The study guidelines as well as the Aptitude Test Exams Questions & Answers will help you pass this stage of the recruitment process. There are also study resources in this article that will help you to practice for the test.
About Ghana Prisons Service Aptitude Test
The Ghana Prisons Service are under the Ministry of interior with the president as commander-in-chief.
Ghana Prisons Service recruitment require a good score in the aptitude test. Preparing for the aptitude test will increase your chances of success to the next stage of the recruitment process.
You might have gone through a the body screening stage to qualify for this stage.
To qualify out of this stage, you must provide correct answers for the test of the. You need to be equipped with good knowledge of the test you might face.
Ghana Prisons Service Aptitude Test Scope & Curriculum Arears
The format of the Ghana Prisons Service aptitude test requires that you sit write the Ghana Prisons Service aptitude test on a computer and at your nearest Ghana Prisons Service Careers Centre.
Subjects mostly tested are:
General knowledge about the Ghana Prisons Service
Numeracy knowledge & Arithmetic reasoning
Literacy knowledge
General Science
Numeracy knowledge & Arithmetic reasoning
Q1. Find the missing number in the following series:
234567 23456 ? 234 23
A: 6 B: 2356 C: 2347 D: 2345 E: None of these
Q2. One container has 28 kilograms of flour and another has 4 kilograms.
How many kilograms must be taken from one container, so each has an equal amount of flour?
A: 4 B: 12 C: 16 D: 24 E: None of these
Q3. Six pairs of shoes cost as much as 1 coat, 2 pairs of jeans cost as much as 3 pairs of shoes, and 4 pairs of socks cost as much as one pair of jeans. How many coats could I exchange for 64 pairs of socks?
A: 4 B: 1 C: 2 D: 3 E: None of these
Q4. The clock in my lounge room is 10 minutes slower than the clock on my phone, which is 6 minutes slow. My tram always leaves 6 minutes early, although it is scheduled for 8:55am. It takes me 20 minutes to get to the tram stop.
What time must I leave, according to my lounge room clock, in order to catch my tram?
A: 8:49am B: 8.35am C: 8.23am D: 8.29am E: None of these
Q5. A container of soft drink was shared between four work teams of employees. The first team took 1/3 of the soft drink, the second team took ½ of what was left, and the remaining two teams shared the remaining soft drink equally between them. If there were originally 240 litres of soft drink, how many litres of soft drink did the third team get?
A: 20 B: 40 C: 80 D: 160 E: None of these
Q6. Working mothers who earn $30,000 or less per year receive a rebate on before and after school care of 75%, plus a school bonus of $6,000 that only applies to this category of earnings. Each dollar earned above this amount and up to $40,000 reduces the rebate to 55%, and for any amount above this, the rebate drops to 30%. There are three mothers – Jade earns $40,001, Emily earns $38,000 and Lucy earns $29,550. If the cost of before and after school care is $10,000 per year, what amount of money does the person have who has the least amount of money left after paying for before and after school care?
A: $33,000 B: $30,000 C: $40,001 D: $40,000 E: None of these
Q7. Find the missing number in the following series:
4 8 ? 32 64 128
A: 24 B: 19 C: 16 D: 8 E: None of these
Q8. Find the missing number in the following series:
? 85 81 83 79 81 77
A: 89 B: 83 C: 87 D: 80 E: None of these
Q9. Percy rides his scooter to the station, which is 10 kilometres away. If Percy rides at a steady pace of 20 kilometres per hour, how many minutes will it take him to ride from home to the station?
A: 2 B: 4 C: 40 D: 30 E: None of these
Q10. If Bert had 3 cents more he would have twice as much as Georgia. If he had 4 cents less, he would have the same amount.
How many cents does Bert have?
A: 4 B: 7 C: 11 D: 14 E: None of these
Q11. There are 72 apples on my tree at home; 38 are red, and the rest are green. I know 46 of the apples have worms in them, so I can’t use them for cooking.
What is the maximum number of green apples I could have left to cook with?
A: 0 B: 8 C: 12 D: 26 E: None of these
Q12. Rebecca must give 5 out of every 6 dollars she earns each week to the tax department. If Rebecca gets to keep $10 this week, how much did she earn in total this week?
A: $30 B: $56 C: $50 D: $60 E: None of these
Q13. Find the missing number in the following series:
64 16 32 8 ?
A: 2 B: 8 C: 16 D: 32 E: None of these
Q14. If a piece of blueberry pie costs $4 and a piece of apple pie costs 50% more than a piece of blueberry pie, how much does a piece of apple pie cost?
A: $3 B: $2 C: $5 D: $6 E
Q15. Oliver has a box of toy cars, but he is not sure how many he has. If he arranges the cars in groups of four, he has three left over. If he arranges them in groups of 3, he has two left over and there are three left over when he puts them in groups of five. Oliver definitely doesn’t have any more than 30 cars, so how many does he have?
A: 27 B: 28 C: 21 D: 22 E: None of these.
