Animal Husbandry Paper 2 WASSCE (SC), 2016

CANDIDATES’ WEAKNESSES AND SUGGESTED REMEDIES

Candidates were unable to:

 

  • - state the management practices that are carried out daily on a livestock farm;
  • - mention devices that could be used in restraining farm animals;
  • - outline the steps involved in the branding of cattle;
  • - state the precautions that should be taken in dipping of sheep;
  • - state the ways in which brooding, debeaking and culling are important;
  • - give a function and a deficiency symptom of calcium, iodine, vitamin A and vitamin E;
  • - mention the equipment used in incubation of eggs;
  • - state the measures that a livestock farmer could adopt to control diseases on the farm.

 

Consequent on the identified weaknesses observable in the candidates’ scripts, the Chief Examiners made the following recommendations:

  • (i) Only competent graduates of Animal Science/Production should be saddled with the responsibility of teaching the subject in Senior Secondary Schools;
  • (ii) Animal Husbandry should be taught as a practical oriented subject through laboratory activities, field trips, excursions etc.; and
  • (ii) Adequate facilities and textbooks on Animal Husbandry should be made available to enhance the teaching-learning of Animal Husbandry in Senior Secondary Schools.