From their responses, it was observed that some aspects of the syllabus were poorly handled by the candidates. This demonstrated clearly lack of knowledge of the topics on the part of the candidates.

Apart from non-adherence to instructions and rubrics of the question, the candidates also exhibited significant weakness in

(1) manipulating numerals and decimals;
(2) theory of logarithms;
(3) mensuration – solving problems on 3-dimensional shapes;
(4) construction;
(5) reading and solving problems from graphs.

Although question 13 was very popular among the candidates, many candidates made poor attempt on it. In the (a) part, candidates were guilty of premature approximation or they did not approximate to the desired places. While in the (b) part, many candidates did not use the angle at the centre of the circle but that at the circumference. Some candidates also did not use curly brackets when listing the elements of sets.