English Paper 2 WASSCE (PC), 2019

Candidates’ weaknesses


Candidates’ weaknesses were revealed in the three sections of the paper. These weaknesses included:

  • Lack of expression to carry through their ideas;
  • Poor understanding of the questions;
  • Ignorance of the difference between ‘singular’ and ‘plural’; ‘present tense’ and ‘past tense’;
  • Inability to construct meaningful sentences;
  • Providing answers that have no relationship to the questions;
  • Inability to re-state in the candidate’s own words, ideas contained in a passage;
  • Ignorance of common literary terms;
  • Ignorance of functions of clauses;
  • Mindless lifting of portions of the set passages;
  • Inability to replace words as used in the passage;

 

Suggested Remedies


Candidates should:

  • learn the basic grammatical structures of English Language;
  • acquaint themselves with the techniques for answering questions;
  • inculcate the habit of reading wide with a view to improving their vocabulary;
  • understand the demands of questions before answering them;
  • practise essay writing regularly;