WASSCE Begins today

The 2020 West African Senior High School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) kicks off today. In all 375,737 candidates from 976 schools will be writing at 796 exam centres throughout the country. Out of this figures, about 188,163 are females while 187,573 are males.

The examination begins with the Visual Arts project, which will be done by 65,380 candidates in eight different areas.

A total of 750 candidates will do Basketry; 6,620 will do Ceramics, while 22,929 will do Graphic Design.

Some  29,983 candidates will do Jewelry, while 9,826 will go in for Leather works with 7,986, 7,484 and 6,805 candidates engaging in Picture Making, Sculpture and Textiles respectively.

Commenting on the readiness of the West African Examination Council (WAEC), the Head of the National Office of WAEC, Mrs Wendy Enyonam  Addy-Lamptey, said with the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic, the number of examination personnel, including invigilators, had been scaled up 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% to cater for the additional classrooms used by the candidates to meet the COVID-19 social distancing protocol", she explained.

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".

Source: Daily Graphic