CANDIDATES’ WEAKNESSES
The observed weaknesses of the candidates include:
- inability to state the Class Osteichthyes;
- inability to state correctly the leaf arrangements, leaf shape and leaf venation of specimens A and B;
- inability to know that adaptation refers to the structures and function;
- inability to draw guidelines to touch the label on the diagram;
- using wrong magnification or not writing down the magnification of the diagram;
- using wrong titles for the diagram;
- inability to label diagrams correctly;
- inability to correctly identify the phylum of Specimens G (Worker bee) and H (Soldier termite);
- inability to reasons for the Phylum Arthropoda;
- writing axial instead of axile for the type of placentation of specimen T.
The following remedies were proffered to overcome the weaknesses:
- students should be abreast with the recent classification of organisms into Class and Order
- students should be made to draw often in class, so as to perfect their diagrams during examination;
- students should be encouraged to use modern text books;
- students should be exposed to practical and scientific knowledge;
- schools should endeavor to equip their laboratories;
- teachers should be exposed to field work and laboratory works;
- teachers should emphasize to students that whenever a question on adaptation is asked that they should relate structures with their respective functions.