THE EFFECT OF PUPILS’/STUDENTS’ BAD HANDWRITING ON THEIR EXAMINATION PERFORMANCE AND THE LASTING SOLUTION (PART 1)

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I am Jimmy Pelemoh, I am an educationist with a passion for teaching and aiding effective teaching in all ramification. I have not less than 8 solid years experience in impacting knowledge to children. I also graduated as a Business Administrator. Enough of me let us move on to the main issue at hand.

It is no longer a small problem, the effect BAD HANDWRITING is having on effective teaching. Brilliant students with bad handwritings find it hard passing external examinations and one begins to wonder what the problem is. While these students are writing internal examinations, you will agree with me that the population is not much compared to external examinations. So, internal teacher knows the students individually and are more patient to read through their scripts and mark accordingly. In the case of external examinations, we have tens of thousands script to be marked.

1.       The examiners want to mark as much as possible so as to get more money marking. Hence, no patience as the internal teachers would.

2.       They don’t know the student at all. Once they can’t see what is written, they just mark what they can MANAGE to see and move to the next script.

3.       In some cases, bad handwriting is down marked.

These will result in a bad result. After all the effort put in place to get the students ready for the examination. If this problem is not well taken care of, these brilliant students after graduation finds it hard to get selected for jobs because of the bad handwriting they have written their application with.

Who is at fault, the students, parents or the school?

What practical steps can be taken to put a lasting end to this problem?

Watch the space for the Part2 of this discussion.

Till then, may the good God bless the good work your hands do and give you GOOD health.

Thanks, bye for now.