Candidate's Weakness

The weaknesses observed include:

1. Poor paragraphing;
2. Poor expression as a result of wrong concord, poor punctuation marks, wrong use of tenses, poor use of prepositions and articles, translation of vernacular into English
3. Failure to grasp the requirements and demands of some questions attempted;
4. Inability to construct simple and correct sentences;
   
5. Wrong use of the first person pronoun “I”;
6. Writing below the required number of words on the essay topics;
   
7. Poor knowledge of functions of clauses;
   
8. Illegible handwriting;
9. Spelling errors
10. Poor knowledge of the basic rules of English grammar;
11. Indiscriminate lifting of portions of set passages as answers.
    
    

Suggested Remedies

 

 

Candidates should:

 

1. Endeavour to improve on their vocabulary and grammar of English Language through extensive reading;
2. Learn the basic grammatical structures of English Language;
3. Take time to understand the exact demands of questions before attempting to answer them;;
4. Draw up an outline to organise their thoughts before writing their essays;
5. Read through their work to correct spelling and grammatical errors before submitting their scripts;
   
6. Practise essay writing constantly;
   
7. Converse frequently in simple and correct English expressions.