WAEC Probes into WASSCE Exams Malpractices; threatens to Cancel Papers

The West African Examination Council (WAEC) has commenced investigations into alleged exams malpractices in the ongoing West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE).

WAEC has in this regard served notice that schools that are found culpable in the investigations stand the risk of having their entire papers cancelled.

WAEC Branch Controller in the Ashanti region, Divine Worlanyo Agbenyo said:

 “When we are writing the exams and we have irregular activities before or after the exams, all these are punishable. Some of these are such that you can have the entire results for that paper cancelled.

“The onus rests on students and parents to ensure that children study hard to merit whatever certificate that they will be getting,”

The ongoing WASSCE has been marred with reports of student-agitations in parts of the country.

The students complained of strict examination supervision and the 1.5-metre social distancing protocols in the exam halls.

For instance, students of Ndewura Jakpa Senior High Technical in Damongo in the West Gonja Municipality have reportedly vandalised school’s properties in protest against the 1.5-meter social distancing sitting in the examination hall.

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Similarly, some students of Tweneboa Kodua Senior High School at Kumawu in the Ashanti Region on Monday threatened to boycott the exams saying their school authorities were being ‘too strict’ during the supervision of their first paper.

According to WAEC, teachers in some schools have been implicated in the misconduct resulting in the student-agitations recorded in some areas.

Meanwhile, the Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Professor Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa has warned that any student found to have engaged in acts of vandalism during the exam will be severely dealt with.