1. GOVERNMENT SCIENCE SECONDARY
SCHOOL, PYAKASA, ABUJA
Tuesday, 24 July 2012
HOLIDAY ASSIGNMENT
GOVERNMENT SCIENCE SECONDARY SCHOOL, PYAKASA.
HOLIDAY ASSIGNMENT
(SS 2) ENGLISH LANGUAGE
1. In not less than 500 words explain what you would want to be in the next fifteen years.
2. Write a letter to your state commissioner for Transport complaining about the bad effects
of the poor state of roads in your community and make suggestions on how to improve them.
TEXT: THE ARROW OF GOD (By Chinua Achebe)
3. In not less than two pages write “Ezeulu is a stubborn man”. Discuss with reference from
the text the consequences of his stubborness.
GOVERNMENT SCIENCE SECONDARY SCHOOL, PYAKASA.
HOLIDAY ASSIGNMENT
(SS 1) ENGLISH LANGUAGE
1. In not less than 450 words write on your life ambition after Secondary education and state
how you wish to accomplish it.
2. Write a letter to your school principal complaining about the poor state of equipment and
facilities in the school and make suggestions on how to improve it.
3. TEXT: THE GOD’S ARE NOT TO BLAME (By Ola Rotimi)
In not less than two pages say who is to be blamed in the downfall of King Odewale.
GOVERNMENT SCIENCE SECONDARY SCHOOL, PYAKASA.
HOLIDAY ASSIGNMENT
(SS 1) MATHEMATICS
1. Evaluate (Ѵ (25.6)^2) x 63.54
2. Evaluate (√(2.33)^2) x 6.15

2. 3. Evaluate 3 √218
3 √ 3.12
4. Evaluate (36 . 12 )^3 x 750. 9
(113.2)^2 x √92.5
5. Simplify 6.04 x (10)^8 + 2.63 x (10)^7
6. Simplify (9. 32 x (10)^6) - (2. 456 x (10)^4)
7. Simplify 8Y + 2 - 12y – 10
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8. In a class of 60 students, ⅗ offer chemistry, ¾ after Physics. Every student offers at least one
of the subjects.
(a) How many students offer both subjects?
(b) What fraction of the class offer chemistry but not Physics.
9. Factorise 5(2ax - a) + 3(ax + xa).
10. Factorise 4x + 28ay - 7a - 16xy.
11. Draw the graph of Y =X^2 + 2X + 1 from -3 to 3.
12. Draw the graph of Y = X^2 + X - 2 from X= -3 to X = 3.
13. Draw the graph of 3X^2 – 5X - 2= Y from - 4 to + 3.
Hence find the roots of the equation 3X^2 – 5X – 2= 0.
14. Use elimination method to solve
2x – y = 8 and 3x+y = 2.
15. Use substitution method to solve 3x+y = 1 and 2x –y = 4.
16. A number to 10 and 12. If the product of the sums obtained is 48, find the number.
17. The area of a rectangle is 35cm^2 and the perimeter is 24cm. Find the length and breadth.
18. A child is 15 years old and his mother is 38 years. In what year was the product of their
ages 78?
19. A vehicle travelling at the speed of Ykm/h covers a distance of 4km. If the speed is
increased by 2km/h it take 1hr less to cover the same distance, find y.

3. 20. The product of the difference of a number from 8 and 13 is -6. Find the number.
GOVERNMENT SCIENCE SECONDARY SCHOOL, PYAKASA.
HOLIDAY ASSIGNMENT
(SS 2) MATHEMATICS
1. Evaluate [ 81^(1/(Log(5^9 )) + 3^(3/(log(√6)^3 )) ] x [√7^(2/Log(25^7 )) - 125^(Log(25^6 ))
].
2. From these series: 1,5,14,30,55,…. Find the next two terms.
3. Simplify √(4+√7) .
4. If 1211221112221111222 base three = X base nine. What is the first digit of X ?
5. If √(4+(√(x+3)^2) + 3) = 3. Find x.
√ ( x - 2y)
6. If (2x-3y) = 3. What is the numerical value of (2x+y)
(x+2y) (3x+10y)
7. Using a ruler and a pair of compasses only, construct
a.) a trapezium PQRS in which the parallel sides PQ and SR are 5cm apart,
<SPQ=60°, |PQ|=9cm and SR=6cm.
b.) Locus L1 of points equidistant from P and Q.
c.) Locus L2 of points 7cm from P.
d.) Locate M1 & M2 points of intersection of L1 & L2.
e.) Measure |M1M2|.
8. Two men, P and Q, set off from a base camp R prospecting for oil. P moves 20km on a
bearing of 205° and Q moves 15km on a bearing of 060°. Calculate the
i.) distance of Q from P, and
ii.) bearing of Q from P, correct to the nearest whole number.
9. The distribution below shows the waiting times for some customers in a certain petrol station:

4. 4.2,3.0,3.4,2.6,2.9,2.0,1.6,2.2,2.6,2.6,3.3,1.9,3.8,2.3,3.4,1.7,2.4,2.9,2.3,2.1,2.5,3.0,2.6,3.8,2.8,2.4,
3.3,2.5,2.7,2.2,2.7,2.3,3.9,2.6,3.5,2.8,2.5,3.2,2.8,2.7,4.3,3.9,2.9,3.6,2.6,3.2,3.7,2.0,3.4,3.2.
a.) construct a cumulative frequency table using 1.5-1.9, 2.0-2.4,… as the class
intervals.
b.) write down the class boundaries.
10.) The time T taken to buy fuel at a petrol station varies directly as the number of vehicles V
on queue and jointly varies inversely as the number of pumps P available in the station. In a
station with 5 pumps, it took 10 minutes to fuel 20 vehicles. Find:
i.) the relationship between T, P and V,
ii.) the time it will take to fuel 50 vehicles in the station with 2 pumps;
iii.) the number of pumps required to fuel 40 vehicles in 20 minutes.
GOVERNMENT SCIENCE SECONDARY SCHOOL, PYAKASA.
HOLIDAY ASSIGNMENT
SCIENCE PROJECT
(APPLICABLE TO ALL STUDENTS)
1.) All Students are to Fabricate a Workable Science Project.
2.) Science Project Write-up must be submitted with the Project explaining clearly the Science
principles involved.
Note: All assignments are to be submitted on resumption. Failure to do so will result to severe
punishment.
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