French Language Paper 2 WASSCE (SC), 2017

Candidate's Weakness

The Chief Examiners reported the following as some of the weaknesses of the candidates:

  1. Commission of grammatical mistakes
  2. use of wrong tenses;
  3. spelling errors;
  4. bad punctuation;
  5. poor understanding of questions attempted.

Suggested Remedies

To remedy the observed weaknesses, the Chief Examiners suggested that:

  1. Teachers of French should place a lot of emphasis on the teaching of grammar.
  2. Students should be encouraged to read French stories, magazines and journals so as to improve their vocabulary.