Weakness and Remedies

The candidates were generally weak in:
-           sketching a line diagram in relation to setting out of a building;
-           sketching the cross-section of a straight-flight stair and labeling the parts;
-           differentiating between a partition wall and a party wall;
-           explaining the cement mortar and gauged mortar;
-           sketching a section through a suspended timber ground floor and labeling floor boarding and oversite concrete;
-           sketching a drain pipe and indicating the spigot and socket.

To overcome these weaknesses:

  -           students should be given opportunity to visit a construction site at least once in a month;
-           The subject teacher should help the students in the areas of their weaknesses by concentrating more on those topics of their weaknesses during lessons;
-           Students should review their past questions and also the teacher should be giving them assignments in the areas they have weaknesses.