The candidates’ weaknesses include their inability to:

• coordinate sentences together;
• write legibly;
• express themselves in correct english;
• write correct spellings of the labelled parts of illustrated diagrams;
• name the lumbar vertebra;
• state function of transverse process, neural canal and centrum of the lumbar vertebra;
• state bones found at the upper and lower regions of the lumbar vertebra;
• state advantages of steaming food;
• state functions of laboratories and dispensaries;
• state dangers associated with quackery.

  The following remedies were suggested to overcome these weaknesses:
             

  • candidates’ should improve in their reading culture e.g. reading and writing of essays and stories;
  • handwriting practice should be imbibed and inculcated among youths or young school leavers;
  • dictionaries should be used whenever new words and terminologies are discovered to avoid spelling mistakes;
  • use of WAEC syllabus should be encouraged when reading.