A total of two hundred and sixty eight thousand, seven hundred and seventy one final-year Senior High School (SHS) student candidates will write this year’s West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) today.
The figure represents an increase of 20,603 candidates over the 2014 figure of 242,162.
139,843 males will sit the examination as against 128,928 females.
The candidates writing the 2015 WASSCE are from 868 public and private second cycle schools.
[contextly_sidebar id=”4inVTeGPDAf6jndC7YmD6qxLGTj9bZn3″]They will be writing the examination at 866 centres.
The examination will be written in Ghana, Nigeria, Liberia, Sierra Leone and The Gambia.
Speaking to Citi News, a Deputy Minister of Education Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa said Ghana is adequately prepared for the examination.
“From the reports who have received from the West African Examination Council for the 2016 WASSCE examination to take off, we expect that every thing will go on smoothly. We also want to use this opportunity to wish them well.
“We want to also assure them that everything will be done to make sure that they have a very smooth exmaination process. We are also looking at the West African Examination Council (WAEC) recommendations which the Ministry of Education approved. We expect security to be tightened and we expect invigilators to be more vigilant”
Meanwhile a group calling itself Youth Alliance for Development is appealing to WAEC and GES to consider returning students marked scripts to their schools so they can go for them and keep them for references.
Speaking to Citi News, the Director of the Alliance Ali Tanti Robert said “looking at last year’s results where as a case study where over 70 percent of the students couldnt make it to teritary institutions. All these students are going to rewrite again but if they don’t have access to their scripts how are they going to learn from their mistakes.”
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By: Marian Efe Ansah/citifmonline.com/Ghana