Health Education Paper 3 WASSCE (PC 1ST), 2020

Weakness & Remedies

 

 

The observed weaknesses of the candidates this year include:

  • illegible handwriting;
  • poor spellings of some technical terms e.g whooping cough, measles, diphtheria;
  • inability to explain endemic, epidemic and pandemic as required in question 6;
  • inability to follow sequential order of answer presentation for First aid administration in question 6;
  • using vague terms to present answers;
  • not providing full answers to some questions;
  • poor coordination of answers;
  • inability to identify the different parts of the tooth in question 3;
  • inability to define posture as expected.

 

The following remedies were proffered to overcome the weaknesses

Candidates should:

  • cover the syllabus before sitting the examinations;
  • take the examination only after the completion of the senior secondary school;
  • study past questions and Chief Examiner’s Report;
  • improve on their spelling of technical terms;
  • study often and prepare ahead of exams;
  • read textbooks that have enough description of topics rather than key points;
  • study questions properly before answering them.

 

Teachers should:
- use the syllabus as part of their reference materials
- attend WAEC Coordination meetings so as to know more technical ways of preparing candidates