Weakness & Remedies

The observed weaknesses of the candidates this year include:

• illegible handwriting;
• poor spellings of some technical terms e.g whooping cough, measles, diphtheria;
• inability to explain endemic, epidemic and pandemic as required in question 6;
• inability to follow sequential order of answer presentation for First aid administration in question 6;
• using vague terms to present answers;
• not providing full answers to some questions;
• poor coordination of answers;
• inability to identify the different parts of the tooth in question 3;
• inability to define posture as expected.

The following remedies were proffered to overcome the weaknesses

Candidates should:

• cover the syllabus before sitting the examinations;
• take the examination only after the completion of the senior secondary school;
• study past questions and Chief Examiner’s Report;
• improve on their spelling of technical terms;
• study often and prepare ahead of exams;
• read textbooks that have enough description of topics rather than key points;
• study questions properly before answering them.

Teachers should:
- use the syllabus as part of their reference materials
- attend WAEC Coordination meetings so as to know more technical ways of preparing candidates