The following weaknesses were observed among the candidates:

              -     Inability to properly express themselves in English language;

• Inability to properly compare organisms in a tabular form, in many cases the answers, did not correspond;
• Poor spelling of labels and technical terms;
• Shallow knowledge of many of the tested concepts;
• Drawing of poor diagrams  with woolly, thick and broken lines;
• Not conforming to size specifications of diagrams;
• Not giving of titles to diagrams;
• Inability to write balanced equations;
• Poor performance on questions related to Genetics.

            The following remedies were proffered to overcome these weaknesses:

•   Teachers should ensure that all aspects of the syllabus are covered

  before  the terminal examinations.

•   Teachers should give students a lot of assignments involving drawing of

                  diagrams and other aspects of biology and endeavour to correct them
                     so that the candidates’ weaknesses can be discovered and corrected on
                     time.

•  Only qualified  Biology teachers should be employed to teach the

 subject.