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2020 WASSCE Begins Today

Mon, Jul 20 2020 11:12 AM
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2020 WASSCE Begins Today

2020 WASSCE Begins Today

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The 2020 West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination(WASSCE) is set to begin examination today.

The total number of candidates sitting for the 2020 WASSCE, beginning from today is 375,737 from various Senior High schools in the country.

The figure which comprises 187,574 males and 188,163 females also represents the first batch of students to have enrolled in the government’s flagship free Senior High School (SHS) policy.

The examination includes 60 subjects; four core and 56 elective subjects are to be written.

Beginning with Project Work for Visual Arts candidates, the theory papers is set to commence from August 3, 2020, until September 5, 2020.

The Ashanti Region has the highest number of candidates of 87,295 followed by the Eastern Region which has 56,467 candidates partaking in the exams.

2020 WASSCE Begins Today
2020 WASSCE Begins Today

The West African Examination Council (WAEC) which conducts the WASSCE concurrently in anglophone West Africa; Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone, The Gambia, and Liberia announced on 20th March 2020 that it was indefinitely suspending the annual exam due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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However, upon discussions with Ghana following the country’s decision to ease COVID-19 restrictions and allow final year students to return to school, it was agreed that the exams will be held independently for Ghana.

For the first time, the government absorbed the full examination fees of all students sitting for the examination at an estimated cost of GHS 75.4 million.

Review timetable

There has been a call for a review of the WASSCE examination timetable which has been described by an education think tank, Africa Education Watch as “strenuous”.

Africa Education Watch, wants WAEC to review the timetable.

The timetable indicates that two elective papers for business students — Financial Accounting and Principles of Cost Accounting, are scheduled to be written on the same day, September 5, 2020, with only an hour’s break.

The think tank argues that the arrangement where two major elective subjects are written on the same day, for as long as 6 and half hours, with an only one-hour break is “strenuous” and goes against “international standards of assessments at the secondary level.”

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It said that previous attempts by the Ghana Association of Business Education Teachers to correct this “anomaly” have been unsuccessful.

“We may not be in normal times, but this certainly should not justify the imposition of such strenuous examination timetables, which are not in the best interest of the students to be examined. We are, therefore, calling on WAEC to review the timetable by postponing the said paper to either Sunday 6th or Monday 7th September 2020,” a statement from Africa Education Watch suggested.

Observe COVID-19 protocols during WASSCE – Nana Addo to students, teachers

Meanwhile, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has asked students, teachers, and invigilators who will be involved in the conduct of the 2020 WASSCE to abide by COVID-19 protocols.

“Just as has been done over the course of the last four weeks, since their return to school, I continue to urge everyone associated with the conduct of this year’s WASSCE, i.e teaching and non-teaching staff, invigilators and students, to abide by the enhanced hygiene, mask-wearing and social distancing protocols they have become accustomed to. They continue to remain our weapons in the fight to defeat COVID-19,” the President said.

President Nana Addo also extended best wishes to students who will be taking the WASSCE.

“I send best wishes to the three hundred and thirteen thousand, eight hundred and thirty-seven (313,837) final year Senior High School students who will from Monday 20th July take the West African Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (WASSCE).”

 

 

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