Candidate's Weakness with Suggested Remedies
Candidates’ weaknesses were as follows:
- manipulation of titre values to agree with those of the teachers;
- wrong units;
- poor mathematical skills;
- inability to differentiate between significant figures and decimal places;
- instructions were not adhered to in qualitative analysis;
- poor knowledge of qualitative analysis.
THE FOLLOWING REMEDIES WERE SUGGESTED FOR OVERCOMING THE WEAKNESSES
- 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 adhere to instructions and understand the demands of the questions before responding to them.