Candidates’ Weaknesses and Suggested Remedies
CANDIDATES’ WEAKNESSES
These include:
- writing of essays that fell short of the required length;
- wrong use of tenses and number;
- inability to construct meaningful sentences;
- providing answers that have no relationship to the questions;
- ignorance of common literary terms;
- ignorance of functions of clauses and phrases;
- mindless lifting of portions of the passage as answers;
- inability to re-state in the candidate’s own words, ideas contained in a passage.
- Candidates should learn the basic grammatical structures of English Language.
- Candidates should acquaint themselves with the techniques of answering questions.
- Candidates should inculcate the habit of reading widely with a view to improving their vocabulary.
- Candidates should practice essay writing regularly.
- Candidates should understand the demands of questions before answering them.
- Candidates should make effort to converse regularly in simple, correct English.