Observation

(a)This is a descriptive essay which requires the candidates to give a detailed description oftheir friend.Most candidateswrote generally on friends and failed to focus on the personality of a particular friend they chose to write on.

(b) .This is an argumentative essay. Candidates were required to write in favour of or against the topic “Water is more important than fire”. This topic was properly handled by some of the candidates. However, some of the candidates dogmatically wrote in favour of one side of the topic without mentioning the cons. This reduced their chances of scoring reasonable marks in this question.

(c)This is an expository essay on ‘mother’. 

Few of the candidates who attempted this question understood the topic. Most of the candidates concentrated on their mother rather than writing on the importance of  the mother generally at home and within the society at large.

(d)  This is a narrative essay on an armed robbery incident that happened in the candidate’s neigbourhood. Some candidates who chose this question gave a detailed account of a robbery incident they witnessed in their neigbourhood.

(ẹ)Candidates were expected to write aninformal letter to their older sibling stating the impact of money in the election process in their country.
Most of the candidates who attempted this question tackled this topic very well.