The candidate is expected to write an article suitable for publication in a national daily discussing the vandalisation of public facilities in his country as well as its effects. The few candidates who attempted this question provided titles and names of writers of the articles.

However, candidates had difficulties understanding the term "vandalization" Many essays were short and the content was basically on 'environmental problems' such as 'the need for sanitation', 'controlling erosion', 'uncompleted buildings' among others, thus demonstrating a lack of understanding of the question. Some compositions also had sufficient content on "vandalization" but had inadequate treatment of the "effects".