The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) is to review its regulations to make examination malpractice unattractive in the country. The Chairman of the council, Prof. Ato Essuman, said the current regulations on examination malpractice were “too lenient” and, therefore, needed to be reviewed to safeguard the integrity of the council’s examinations at all levels. “Some […]
The West Africa Examination Council (WAEC) says it has put 11 schools under surveillance after receiving information that the institutions intend to cheat in the ongoing West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE). Speaking to the press on Wednesday, the Head of Test Administration Division, George Ohene-Mante, said the schools are being closely monitored for […]
One candidate of the Dadieso Senior High School of the on-going West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) was invited yesterday while an invigilator is on the run for allegedly taking a snapshot of the candidate’s English Oral paper, while the examination was ongoing. The candidate has however, been released on bail, while the security operatives […]
The written papers of this year’s West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for the second batch of final-year free senior high school students began smoothly throughout the country yesterday. The examination began with Oral English with the observance of the COVID-19 safety protocols. A total of 446,321 final-year SHS students are writing the 2021 […]
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has warned that any false information about the ongoing WASSCE will be detrimental to the integrity of the outcome and can hurt the future of the candidates. The examination body has, therefore, called on any person or entity that wants to put out information regarding the exam to check […]
Seven persons, made up of three students, two teachers and two administrators, have been convicted of impersonation in the 2020 West Africa Secondary School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) by the Agona Swedru Magistrate Court. One of them received custodial sentence while the rest were fined. They included Georgina Danso, Desmond Oduro and David Bawah, all Form […]
Analysis of this year’s performance of the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) candidates reveals that the average performance of the candidates is the best, when compared with WASSCE results within the past six years, with all four core subjects (English, Mathematics, Integrated Science and Social Studies) recording above 50 per cent pass marks. […]
The Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) would begin on Monday, September 14, 2020, and end on Friday, September 18, 2020, nationwide for all Junior High School (JHS) final year students. The candidates will write the English Language, and Religious and Moral Education (RME) on Monday, Integrated Science, and Basic Design and Technology (BDT) on Tuesday. […]
The Minority in Parliament says the decision of the Ghana Education Service (GES) to procure four hundred thousand (400,000) sets of questions and answer booklets from WAEC will compromise the integrity of the examination management body. The GES purchased the questions and answers from the West Africa Examination Council (WAEC) for distribution to the first […]
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) says it is yet to release the results for this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) for School Candidates. A message from the council said it “would duly make an announcement when the results are released”. It, therefore, asked the public to ignore messages on social media platforms that […]
The West African Examinations Council has released the provisional results of candidates who wrote the West African Senior School Certificate Examinations (WASSCE) in 2019. The highest number of students to pass a single core subject was recorded in the Social Studies exam with 257,828 (75.43%) candidates obtaining grades between A1-C6. The most failures were recorded […]
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has withheld the entire results of some 48,555 candidates who sat for the 2019 West African Senior School Certificate Examinations (WASSCE) pending investigations into various cases of examination malpractices. The 48,555 represents 14.12% of the entire 346,094 candidates entered for the examinations. This was disclosed in a press release […]
