Literature-In-English Paper 3 WASSCE (PC), 2016

Question 11

    Comment on the boy’s attitude to going to school in the poem “The School Boy”.


Observation

Many candidates attempted this question. Some of them wrote generally on the nonchalant attitude of a typical schoolboy.

Candidates were expected to discuss the following points:

  • The boy’s restrictions of a formal schoolboy as opposed to the freedom of nature.
  • The boy’s happy state in a summer morning.
  • The boy’s unhappy state in school using words like “cruelty” and “depression”

 

Candidates’ performance was fair.