.    CANDIDATES’ WEAKNESSES

        The candidates manifested the following weaknesses:

• poor spelling of labels and technical terms like  ‘vase-deference for ‘vas deferens’, ‘epididymics’ for ‘epididymis’.
• the use of alphabets in answers instead of the word required e.g. the use of ‘d’ instead of ‘the’, ‘b/c’ instead of ‘because’;
• illegible  handwriting;
• pluralization of labels that should be singular e.g ‘testes’ instead of ‘testis’,
• inability to give correct scales, title, identifying the x and y axes, and plot points correctly in question 2a.
• non adherence to the rubrics.

 

 4.  SUGGESTED REMEDIES

      The following remedies were proffered to overcome those weaknesses

• Teachers should emphasize the need for correct spelling of technical terms in Biology;
• Students should be encouraged to express themselves in and write correct English;
• Teachers should constantly be exposed to seminars and workshops with emphasis on the teaching of Ecology, sex education and genetics;
• Teachers should endeavour to cover the syllabus before the onset of the examinations.
• Students should be taught how to answer examination  questions;
• School, should ensure students are provided with standard text books and  libraries.