Weakness and Remedies
Candidates’ weaknesses include their inability to:
- express themselves in simple English Language
- write correct spellings for scientific words
- illegible handwriting
- draw and label fully a motor neuron
- explain artificial respiration
- state symptoms of a victim of epileptic fits
- explain emergency condition
- state advantages and disadvantages each of using waste disposal van to evacuate refuse in towns
- explain waste disposal, pollution and sanitation
- name minerals found in bones
- draw and label fully a thoracic vertebra
- state functions of the vertebral column
The following remedies were suggested to overcome these weaknesses:
- textbooks that cover a wide range of the syllabus should be used by the teachers and candidates
- teachers should endeavour to get previous marking schemes in teaching the students what is expected of them during examination
- teachers should lay emphasis on good handwriting during teaching
- teachers should endeavour to cover the syllabus for students before the commencement of the examination
- students should cultivate habit of reading
- teachers should endeavour to teach both simple and difficult topics in the syllabus
- emphasis on teaching candidates’ anatomical words
- emphasis should be laid on drawing