Health Education Paper 2 WASSCE (SC), 2018

Weakness and Remedies

 

Candidates’ weaknesses include their inability to:

  • express themselves in simple English Language
  • write correct spellings for scientific words
  • illegible handwriting
  • draw and label fully a motor neuron
  • explain artificial respiration
  • state symptoms of a victim of epileptic fits
  • explain emergency condition
  • state advantages and disadvantages each of using waste disposal van to evacuate refuse in towns
  • explain waste disposal, pollution and sanitation
  • name minerals found in bones
  • draw and label fully a thoracic vertebra
  • state functions of the vertebral column

The following remedies were suggested to overcome these weaknesses:

  • textbooks that cover a wide range of the syllabus should be used by the teachers and candidates
  • teachers should endeavour to get previous marking schemes in teaching the students what is expected of them during examination
  • teachers should lay emphasis on good handwriting during teaching
  •  teachers should endeavour to cover the syllabus for students before the commencement of the examination
  • students should cultivate habit of reading
  • teachers should endeavour to teach both simple and difficult topics in the syllabus
  • emphasis on teaching candidates’ anatomical words
  • emphasis should be laid on drawing