The weaknesses are the same as those listed in this section of this report every year. Some of them are:
(i) Ignorance of the proper use of punctuation marks.
(ii) Ignorance of the proper use of capital letters and small letters.
(iii) Ignorance of the difference between the present and the past tenses.
(iv) Inability to re-state the ideas of a passage in different words and expressions.
(v) Inability to identify parts of speech and how they function in sentences.
If candidates learn how to answer comprehension and summary questions and make a serious attempt to understand the passages and questions they will do well in the examination.
However, there can be no better remedy for the candidates’ weaknesses than a serious study of the rudiments of the English Language.
It would be self deceit for a candidate to think that he can do well in this examination without knowing the parts of speech and how they function in sentences.
