Eight multiple choice and two written, marked as you go. Free, no account.
Elements and principles
Answer: B. Colour and emphasis
Colour is an element. Emphasis is a principle. Balance, rhythm, unity and contrast are principles, not elements. The written paper keeps the two lists apart. Shape, form, line, texture and space are the other elements students are expected to name.
Elements and principles
Answer: B. Form has depth and can be seen from more than one side
Form has depth. A pot you can walk around is a form. A circle on a page is a shape, and shape is flat. A letter is lettering. The speed of a song is not this paper. Calling shape and form the same word loses the mark.
Colour
Answer: B. Red and yellow
Red and yellow are primary colours and together they make orange, a secondary colour. Blue and yellow make green. Blue and red make violet. Green and violet are not the pair that makes orange. White only lightens a colour that is already there. It does not create orange.
Colour
Answer: C. Yellow and violet
Complementary colours sit opposite each other on the colour wheel. Yellow and violet are one opposite pair. Red and green, and blue and orange, are the others. Red and orange sit beside each other, so they are analogous, not complementary. A guessed neighbour is not an opposite.
Lettering
Answer: A. A serif at the end of a stroke
A serif is the small foot at the end of a stroke. Roman letters have serifs and a thick and thin stroke. Block letters have an even stroke and no serifs. Guidelines and readability can belong to both. Do not call every thick stroke a serif.
Art history
Answer: B. The head in profile and the shoulders from the front
The Egyptian composite view shows each part in its clearest aspect. The head is in profile, the eye is frontal, the shoulders are frontal, and the legs are in profile. It is a convention for a complete body, not a camera snapshot and not linear perspective. Serifs belong to lettering.
Ghanaian and African art
Answer: B. Kente is woven, and Adinkra symbols are printed
Kente is woven cloth. Adinkra symbols are printed onto cloth, and each symbol has a meaning you should give only when you know it. Benin bronzes are court metalwork, often cast by the lost wax method. They are not Kente. One cloth does not stand for the other.
Art history
Answer: B. A wrong year is a false fact, and the feature can still be described
A year you invented is a false fact. The culture, the purpose and one visible feature can still score. Name an artist only when you can say what they made. Classical Greek art and Renaissance art are not the same stretch of time, so a guessed century does not help.
Name the three primary colours. (3 marks)
Distinguish between a tint and a shade. (2 marks)
Answer the parts you can. Everything you write is marked together.
Marking guide
(a) Red: 1 mark. Yellow: 1 mark. Blue: 1 mark.
(b) A tint is colour plus white: 1 mark. A shade is colour plus black: 1 mark.
State the difference between Kente and Adinkra. (2 marks)
Give the three steps of the lost wax method. (3 marks)
Answer the parts you can. Everything you write is marked together.
Marking guide
(a) Kente is woven: 1 mark. Adinkra is printed: 1 mark.
(b) Wax model in a mould: 1 mark. Wax melted out: 1 mark. Metal poured in: 1 mark.
Topics on this page: Elements and principles; Colour; Lettering; Art history; Ghanaian and African art.
Notes, practice questions and a mark scheme for topics on the syllabus.
They are written in the style of the WASSCE, the way the examiners ask, and every one comes with the correct answer and a worked explanation. Inside glearn there are also questions taken from past papers.
Yes, on this page: type your answer and the coach marks it with AI and shows you where the marks are, a few a day with no account. Inside glearn, every answer you write.
No. You need one only to save your score and to keep going once the free marking for the day is used.
Nobody can promise that. These test the same topics and the same kind of thinking the WASSCE does, which is what practice is for. There are thousands more across BECE and WASSCE inside glearn; this page shows a small sample.