WASSCE Begins in Ghana Today

The 2020 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) kicks off for Ghanaian candidates today, despite the scourge of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Some 375,737 candidates from 976 schools will be writing the examination at 796 centres throughout the country.

Out of the figure, about 188,163 are females, while the remaining 187,573 are males.

In light of the COVID-19 outbreak, the Head of the National Office of West African Examinations Council (WAEC), Mrs Wendy Enyonam Addy-Lamptey, said the number of examination personnel, including invigilators, had been increased due to the social distancing protocol, which had necessitated the use of additional classrooms.

“The number of examination personnel has been revised upward by 10 per cent to cater for the additional classrooms to be used by the candidates to meet the COVID-19 social distancing protocol,” she explained.

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She said originally, 16,218 examination personnel, made up of supervisors, assistant supervisors, invigilators and security personnel, were to administer the examination, “but because of the COVID-19 protocols, the figure has been revised upwards by 10 per cent”.

Mrs Addy-Lamptey explained that WAEC was ready to conduct the WASSCE for all its member countries from August to September and urged the candidates to take advantage of the opportunity to prepare for the examination, assuring them that “once they prepare well, they can definitely pass it without cheating”.

Meanwhile, President Akufo-Addo has extended his best wishes to the candidates.