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.