Candidates' Weakness
The Chief Examiner observed that the candidates’ showed weaknesses in the following areas:
- Pre – mature approximation.
- Omission of units.
- Inadequate understanding of Mechanics.
- Inadequate rudimentary knowledge of Permutation and Combination.
- Non – adherence to rubrics.
- Poor interpretation of questions
- Poor understanding of Transformation and Matrices
- Inadequate understanding of Differentiation and Integration.
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SUGGESTED REMEDIES
The Chief Examiner suggested that to overcome the challenges stated, the following remedies should be considered:
- Candidates should be encouraged to read questions carefully and understand their requirements before attempting them.
- Candidates are encouraged to cover the syllabus while preparing for examination so as to enhance performance.
- Parents/Guidance should provide their children/wards with modern textbooks.
- Candidates should pay more attention to involving diagrams.
- Constant practice by the candidates’ will enhance performance.
- Candidates should devote more time to learning necessary principles, as well as solving mathematical problems
- Candidates should be more committed and try to cover all the topics in the syllabus.