The Chief Examiner Has Revealed The Common Mistakes Candidate Make In English Language
The Chief Examiner Has Revealed The Common Mistakes Candidate Make In the English Language. All candidates reading this must go through these common mistakes. And as such, they must try to avoid these mistakes in their upcoming exams.
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COMMON MISTAKES
- A number of candidates cannot tell a debate from ordinary argumentative writing and consequently, they write the former instead of the latter or otherwise
- Some candidates displayed a lack of appropriate vocabulary items, According to him, this hindered the ability of students to express themselves clearly and meaningfully.
- Grammatical and syntactical errors and reduced the marks of candidates
- Candidates have displayed very little acquaintance with the set text, “The Cockcrow” and obtained appallingly low marks.
- Questions on figures of speech also posed great difficulty to students.
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Most of the candidates lacked the ability to construct correct sentences. There were instances where you could not tell whether what you were reading was English or some other language.
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Candidates lack comprehension skills; they introduce their own ideas which is quite unrelated to the passage given to them.
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From the composition candidates write, it appears that there is a visible gap between what the English Language prescribes and what the students really know and are able to produce in an examination.
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Tense usage was particularly chaotic as well as punctuation and spelling.
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Some candidates copied long stretches of irrelevant material from the comprehension passage as answers.
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