Observation

How God instituted marriage in the second creation story. (Genesis 2: 15- 25)
This question was answered by a greater percentage of the candidates. Candidate who understood its demands did not have problem while attempting the question. They performed greatly in it especially in the B part.
Weaknesses on the part of candidates in the A part is attributed to writing about the first creation story and how God created the earth rather than concentrating on how God created Eve. Candidates gave unnecessary preamble and introduction to this question and in most cases and ended up giving a summary of how Adam and Eve ended up as partners in the Garden of Eden. Below are the expected points the candidates were expected to have written;

1. In the second creation story, God created man out of dust and gave him breath to become a living being.
2. God placed man in the garden of Eden to keep and till it.
3. So He created all living creatures and charged man to name them but none was fit as a partner for him.
4. God saw that man was lonely.
5. God therefore said that it was not good for man to be alone.
6. Hence He decided to make a helper fit for man as his partner.
7. God caused a deep sleep to fall upon man.
8. And while man slept, He took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh.
9. And out of the rib God took from man, He made a woman and brought her to the man.
10. When man saw the woman, he said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh...”.
11. Man said, she shall be called woman, because she was taken out of man.
12. That day, man and woman became married couple.
13. Hence a man leaves his father and mother and cleaves to his wife and they become one flesh.
14. And the man and his wife were both naked, and were not ashamed.