Candidates' Weakness and Suggested Remedies

The candidates were generally weak in:

-           stating safety rules that must be observed on a building site;
-           stating the use of fire brick and facing brick;
-           stating the advantages of steel formwork over timber formwork;
-           explaining the terms batching, placing and curing in relation to concrete works;
-           sketching a section through a timber formwork for a floor slab;
-           sketching a section through an independent scaffold;
-           stating the function of an ebonite strip used in terrazzo flooring.

To overcome these weaknesses:

-           students should be given opportunity to visit a construction site at least once in a month;
-           school workshop should be well equipped not only with tools but also with special materials that are not common such as facing bricks, fire bricks, etc for teaching purposes;
-           students should review their past questions and also by giving them assignments
in the areas they have weaknesses.