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Detriment to state on WASSSCE interpretations...

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 Source: Nweanah, Francis Eduku

Education has been the spine of our nation’s development, through

socialization, by means of creating awareness in uneducated persons,

exploitation in the id, ego, and super egoism, which framework democracy in

terms of civility, dynamism and justification, and also acquisition of skills,

all embraced in systematic approach to the tertiary level. Deprivations or

diversions to such opportunities devastate the welfare of our nation and

individuals at large. Everybody can bear with me or by statistics that,

most candidates who enter into tertiary institutions or related; with lower

grades, sometimes, astoundingly, performs, better than those with higher ones.

It is real and 100% true, and that if statistics is to be correlated, it can

be ascertained that, most students who scores aggregate 6 into secondary school

or tertiary institutions declines to 15 or lesser and vice versa. This might

be outstanding to the one time assessment by WAEC,

which does not favour students at the countenance of illness, but paves way for the

“ aphor “. This also contradicts with Pavlov’s law of learning, which constitutes,

continual participation, concentration, understanding, and repetition, since the

candidates have to wait for some time and re-write. Assessments should be of 65%

Cumulative and 35% exams with vigilance and security in the accumulation.

With the above delineate, being partial in recruitment, as being elucidated in the

WASSCE – SSCE, is tantamount to setting a trap to ensnare one’s own sel

Columnist: Nweanah, Francis Eduku