Weakness and Remedies
Candidates’ weaknesses include their inability to:
- express themselves in simple English Language;
- write correct spellings for scientific words;
- illegible handwriting;
- state deficiency of sodium in humans;
- list equipment used in detecting auditory defects;
- state roles of an orthopaedic hospital;
- state characteristics of molar, premolar, incisor and canine;
- explain incubation period, immunization and mortality rate as used in health;
- give examples of types of bones;
- state ways of managing people with physical disabilities;
- mention ways of correcting sight defects.
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 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
- teachers should give students task that will improve their spellings
- teachers should endeavour to teach both simple and difficult topics in the syllabus
- emphasis on teaching candidates’ anatomical words