NECTA Guidelines For Practical Examinations Physics
The National Examinations Council of Tanzania (NECTA) administers practical examinations in the Certificate of Secondary Education Examinations (CSEE), Advanced Certificate of Secondary Education Examinations (ACSEE) and Diploma in Secondary Education Examinations (DSEE).
The examinations aim to assess knowledge, skills and competencies that the candidates have acquired by testing them on facts practically under controlled experimentation and observations.
Through practical examinations, skills and competences of students in the subject are effectively evaluated.
This guide is designed to help Physics teachers, tutors and laboratory technicians who handle practical preparations in laboratories to perform their tasks effectively and efficiently.
The guide presents important instructions on how to organise and prepare the laboratory for examinations.
It offers stepby-step guide notes to help teachers in preparing and administering practical examinations
NECTA Guidelines For Practical Examinations Physics
This guideline is designed to foster the understanding of fundamental principles and laws of Physics.
It also seeks to help teachers/ laboratory technicians and learners to apply the acquired skills on gathering and analysing the data to measure the validity of the tested concepts so as to reach a meaningful conclusion.
This Physics guidebook is a source of knowledge, problem-solving skills, intuition and practical experience with apparatuses and data collection procedures.
It details techniques to help teachers/ laboratory technicians organise and prepare practicals for topics such as Measurement, Archimedes Principle and law of Flotation, Structure
And Properties of Matter, Forces in Equilibrium, Motion in a Straight Line, Friction, Simple Harmonic Motion, Rotation of Rigid Bodies, Fluid Dynamics, Light, Heat/Measurement of Thermal Energy, Vibrations and Waves and Current Electricity effectively.
An experiment usually involves setting out an objective, establishing a valid procedure for achieving the objective performing the experiment and getting the results, interpreting the outcome and, finally, presenting the resultant findings.
This guidebook addresses different aspects including how to organise and manage a Physics laboratory, safety rules, areas of assessment, specific objectives, key issues for consideration, sample questions, apparatuses and necessary procedures.
All these aspects facilitate understanding, hence creating confidence when performing practicals.
