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B CAPE level

Subject Issue in 2017 Recommendations
Accounting Unit Students reported that Paper 1: Better editing and checking
2: questions 10 and 12 had no correct of questions and key. Strike
answer. out if observation is valid.
The students said that the topic,
Process costing, was not tested at
all and there were a lot of questions
on Job costing.
‘Cash profits’ in Q3(d) is not a term Exercise leniency in
students are familiar with. marking

Chemistry Unit 1 Paper 2 -No1c, d. Either:
1c- Students were asked to write an  the relevant parts of the
equation representing the capture of questions are struck out and
a neutron by a fluorine 19 atom. marks pro-rated or
Neutron capture is not on the  great leniency is applied in
syllabus. In Unit I Module 1 accepting responses
Specific Objective 1.4 states that
students should be able to explain
the phenomenon of radioactivity.
The explanatory notes indicate that
they should write equations for
alpha, beta and gamma emissions.
There is nothing neither written nor
implied about neutron capture.
1d- The figure showed the mass
spectrum of the metal zirconium
and students were required to
calculate the relative atomic mass
of the metal

The relative abundance was totaled
95.2% instead of 100% (Vertical
axis)

Question 2: An electrode was
labelled wrongly hence this caused  consider that a wide range
a problem in responding to the of possible solutions may
entire Question be proffered, error carried

forward or benefit of the
doubt marks may be
applicable.

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