Candidate's Weakness with Suggested Remedies
Candidates’ weaknesses were as follows:
- inability to differentiate decimal places and significant figures;
- reading-off burette to one place of decimal;
- poor knowledge of chemical equations;
- inability to write correct inferences from observation;
- inability to find average titre value using concordant values;
- inability to follow instructions;
- some candidates wrote clear solution instead of colourless solution;
- wrong unit. Some candidates wrote g/dm-3 instead of g/dm3 or gdm-3;
- wrong positioning of ions. Some candidates wrote Al3+ instead of Al3+.
THE FOLLOWING REMEDIES WERE SUGGESTED FOR OVERCOMING THE WEAKNESSES
The following remedies were suggested:
- candidates should learn the difference between decimal places and significant figures;
- more practical activities should be carried out before WASSCE begins;
- candidates should learn how to write inferences from observations;
- candidates should be familiar with coloured solutions.