Candidate's Weakness

The weaknesses observed include:

1. poor paragraphing;
2. poor expression as a result of wrong concord, poor punctuation marks, wrong use of tenses, poor use of prepositions and articles;
3. failure to grasp the requirements and demands of some questions attempted;
4. inability to construct simple and correct sentences;
   
5. wrong use of the first person pronoun “I”;
6. writing below the required number of words on the essay topics;
7. illegible handwriting;
   
8. spelling errors;
9. poor knowledge of the basic rules of English grammar;
10. mindless lifting of answers from the passage;
11. use of text message abbreviations such as “u” for “you”, “d” for “the”, “ur” for “your” etc.
    
    

Suggested Remedies

Candidates should:

 

1. endeavour to improve on their vocabulary and grammar in English Language through extensive reading;
2. take time to understand the demands of questions before attempting to answer them;
3. draw up an outline to organise their thoughts before writing their essays;
4. read through their works to correct spelling and grammatical mistakes before submitting their scripts;
5. practise essay writing constantly;
   
6. converse regularly using simple and correct English expressions;