Agriculture Paper 2, WASSCE (SC), 2018

Weakness and Remedies

 

Majority of the candidates were unable to:

  • state the uses of tractor and bulldozer
  • state the functions of soil water to crops
  • explain the life cycle of liver fluke
  • discuss the cultivation of cassava
  • complete the table on animal diseases
  • discuss groundnut rosette disease
  • draw and label the structure of a chicken egg
  • complete the table on the law of diminishing returns
  • mention marketing services in agricultural production

 

Based on the observed weaknesses the Chief Examiners recommended as follows:

  • Adequate teaching and coverage of the syllabuses. Aspects of the syllabus such as farm mechanization/Agricultural engineering,  crop and animal production, agricultural economics amongst others should be covered by teachers with particular emphasis on the new areas of the syllabus;
  • Teachers should expose student to questions on calculations in agricultural science;  
  • Teachers should teach the students with appropriate diagrams where necessary;
  • Teachers should emphasize the acquisition of practical skills in the subject through school farms, field visits, excursion; and
  • Only graduates of Agricultural Science/Agriculture should be allowed to teach the subject in Senior Secondary Schools in West Africa.