Candidates' Weakness
The Chief Examiner observed that the candidates’ showed weaknesses in the following areas:
- Pre – mature approximation.
- Omission of units.
- Inadequate understanding of Vectors.
- Non – adherence to rubrics.
- Poor interpretation of questions.
- Poor understanding of Matrices and Determinant.
- Inadequate understanding of Integration using trapezium rule.
- Too much dependence on the use of Calculators and hence omitted essential workings.
- 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.