Candidates Weakness
The observed weaknesses of the candidates this year include:
- wrong spelling of biological names and terms;
- non-adherence to rubrics e.g. by answering all the questions including those not for their country;
- poor performance in questions relating to ecology and microorganisms;
- inability to express themselves vividly in writing answers to essay questions;
- inability to explain how soil water gets to the leaves of a plant in question 1(a);
- inability to describe the role of the pancreatic juice in the digestion of carbohydrates and proteins in mammals in question 2(b).
The following remedies were proffered to overcome these weaknesses:
- - candidates should endeavour to cover all the aspects of the syllabus before taking the examination;
- candidates should improve on their written English;
- candidates should read and understand a question properly before attempting it;
- candidates should study past questions and Chief Examiner’s Report;
- candidates should learn the correct spelling of names of microorganisms;
- the general principles and terms used in Biology should be studied with practical examples.