Weakness and Remedies
Candidates’ weaknesses include their inability to:
- express their thoughts correctly;
- write correct spellings for scientific words;
- interpret questions correctly
- write legibly;
- differentiate between definition, explanation and listing;
- differentiate between methods and equipment;
- draw a fish pond;
- differentiate between capture fisheries and culture fisheries;
- write complete word for pH meter or dissolved oxygen meter as many wrote meter without the pH or dissolved oxygen.
The following remedies were suggested to overcome these weaknesses:
- textbooks that cover a wide range of the syllabus should be used by the teachers and candidates;
- teachers should increase their efforts in pond construction teaching;
- teachers should endeavour to get previous marking schemes in teaching the students what is expected of them during examination;
- teachers should emphasize on legible hand writing for students;
- teachers should endeavour to cover the syllabus for students before the commencement of the examination;
- students should cultivate habit of reading;
- candidates shold cultivate the habit of reading and understanding what a question requires before attempting to answer them;
- teachers should give students task that will improve their spellings of technical and scientific words;
- teachers should endeavour to teach both simple and difficult topics in the syllabus;
- candidates should be more exposed to diverse ways of answering application questions;
- emphasis on teaching candidates’ anatomical and correct scientific words;
- teachers should participate in WASSCE marking and coordination exercise;
- schools should have standard fish farms to bridge the gap between theory and practical;
- models should be used in teaching and instruction of fisheries;
- teachers and school administrators should always utilize the WASSCE Chief Examiners Reports for previous diets of WASSCE exams in the preparation of candidates for external examinations.