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Ghana Armwrestling sends goodwill message to Junior and Senior School candidates
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Ghana Armwrestling sends goodwill message to Junior and Senior School candidates

The Ghana Armwrestling Federation (GAF) has sent a goodwill message to the final year students of Junior and Senior High Schools students writing the certificate examination this month. An advocate for EduSports, Sportsprenuer and President of the Federation, Mr. Charles Osei Asibey, in a statement commended the candidates for how far they’ve come in their academics and urged them to keep fighting till their last paper. He explained that his federation was in partnership with the Ghana Education Service to develop and nurture young talents in armwrestling hence the need to extend best wishes to the BECE and WASSCE candidates. “Through our partnership with the GES, we have had JHS and SHS students represent Ghana at national and international levels through our Kids Armwrestli...
Taking Mobile Phones To Exam Halls: WAEC To Cancel Entire Results Of Candidates
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Taking Mobile Phones To Exam Halls: WAEC To Cancel Entire Results Of Candidates

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has said it will cancel the entire results of candidates caught with mobile phones in the ongoing West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for School Candidates.According to WAEC, a number of candidates had been caught with mobile phones in examination halls, a practice which was against the rules and regulations of the examination, being written only by Ghana after the four other member countries — Liberia, Nigeria, The Gambia and Sierra Leone — had written theirs.“Candidates are reminded that their entire results will be cancelled when they are caught with mobile phones in the examination halls. The council wishes to call upon school authorities, supervisors, invigilators, parents and guardians to ensure that candidates...
2022 WASSCE Starts Today
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2022 WASSCE Starts Today

A total of 422,883 candidates from 977 schools are sitting for this year’s West African Senior Schools Certificate Examinations (WASSCE) across the country from today August 1, 2022. The candidates comprise 72 students with visual impairment and 14 with hearing impairment. The exams include 60 subjects, comprising four cores and 56 electives, which will be written by candidates with project work subjects beginning today. The first core subject will be the English Language Orals on Monday, August 29 while its essay and objective papers will be written on Thursday, September 8. According to West African Examinations Council (WAEC), the exams will end on Tuesday, September 27. The start of the exams comes albeit allegations made by the Minority in Parliament that the exams...
WAEC reschedules two WASSCE papers over suspected leakage
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WAEC reschedules two WASSCE papers over suspected leakage

Two papers have been rescheduled in the ongoing West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) amid fears of leaked examination questions. The exact reason for the rescheduling of the papers; physics and business management, which were set to be written on Wednesday, September 15, 2021, was not given when the West African Examinations Council addressed a press conference on the matter. But the council noted that it has detected evidence of possible exam leakage on social media and on “rogue” websites prior to today’s exams. “The cheating social media groups were in full swing prior to the conduct of the mathematics and the English language papers on 9th and 13th September,” the Head of Council’s Test Administration Division, George Ohene-Mantey, said. Mr. Ohen...
Ghana claims 88 percent of 2020 WASSCE 8As
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Ghana claims 88 percent of 2020 WASSCE 8As

A total 411 out of the 465 candidates who scored grade A in all subjects at the 2020 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE), were students from Ghana pioneering the Government’s Free Senior High School (SHS) Programme. Dr Mathew Opoku Prempeh, immediate past Minister of Education, at the fourth Session of the fifth Congregation of the University for Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS) on Saturday, said 2020 became the only year 50 per cent of Ghanaian students scored A1 to C6 in all core subjects. He said the feat vindicated the President’s commitment to free education-the lifeline to the nation’s growth, and which must therefore be given the needed support. “This clear testament to the vision of President Akufo Addo’s Free SHS programme tells us that when ...
WASSCE ends on September 5
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WASSCE ends on September 5

The West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE), which commenced on July 20, 2020, would end on Saturday, September 5. The examination, written by 313,897 candidates across the country, began with project work such as basketry, painting and woodwork for Visual Arts candidates. Despite measures by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) to ensure a smooth process, the examination had its fair share of rumours of leakage of questions purported to have generated from the Council. Some candidates rioted over strict invigilation at their centres and in the process destroyed school property while using unsavoury language against state officials. The WASSCE students engaged in the unruly behaviour were dismissed by the Ghana Education Service but President Akufo-...
GES recalls dismissed candidates to write WASSCE
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GES recalls dismissed candidates to write WASSCE

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has recalled dismissed candidates for misconducting themselves after their first paper in Integrated Science in the ongoing West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (WASSCE) to continue their examination. The decision followed an engagement between the GES and the Minister of Education, on Monday, August 10, 2020, after President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo directed the Service to reconsider the dismissals. The affected students are Nicholas Cobbinah, Kardimeil Suapim, and John Kwofie from Sekondi College; and Simon Ameyibor, a Senior Prefect and Juliet Amoakowaa, both of Tweneboa Kodua Senior High School (SHS). Others are Emmanuel Ashiangmor, Peter Sissi, Ameka Nyamitse, Shadrack Daltey, and Alfred Attiso, all of Battle SHS, and Sol...
WASSCE: GES dismisses 14 students; interdicts three teachers for indiscipline
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WASSCE: GES dismisses 14 students; interdicts three teachers for indiscipline

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has dismissed 14 students and interdicted three teachers over reports of acts of indiscipline in some schools during the Integrated Science Examination Paper on Monday 3rd August, in this year’s West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (WASSCE).  A statement issued by Professor Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa, Director-General, GES, copied to the Ghana News Express, said the dismissed students, who had been barred from writing the current examinations in the schools included: Nicholas Cobbinah, Kardimeil Suapim and John Kwofie all of Sekondi College.  Others were Simon Ameyibor, Senior Prefect, Thomas Anokye and Juliet Amoakowaa, all of Tweneboah Koduah Senior High School; Emmanuel Ashiangmor, Peter Sissi, Ameka Nyamitse, Shadrack Daitey and Alfred...
Mahama blames government for WASSCE candidates behaviour
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Mahama blames government for WASSCE candidates behaviour

Mr John Mahama, Presidential Nominee of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) for this year’s elections has attributed the unruly behaviour of some current West Africa Senior School Certificate Examinations (WASSCE) candidates to the decision by the government to buy past questions for them. He said that the WASSCE candidates believed that the past questions bought for them by the government would come during the exams hence their disappointment and the kind of behaviour they put up. Mr Mahama made this point when he called on the Overlord of Dagbon, Ya-Na Mahama Abukari (II) at his palace at Yendi on Friday. Mr Mahama said during his tenure and under his Minister of Education, Professor Jane Nana Opoku-Agyemang, who is his running mate for the elections, “Ghana saw the best WAS...
WASSCE timetable must be revised – African Education Watch
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WASSCE timetable must be revised – African Education Watch

The African Education Watch, a civil society group, on Sunday called on the West African Examination Council (WAEC) to review the timetable for this year’s West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE). A statement signed by Mr Kofi Asare, African Education Watch Executive Director and copied to the Ghana News Agency, described the current timetable as burdensome to the students and also against international standards of assessment at the secondary level. It said, for instance, Senior High School Business students were expected to write two elective papers; Financial Accounting and Principles of Costing, on the same day September 5, 2020, from 0830 hours and 1200 noon; and from 1330 hours to 1630 hours respectively. "This arrangement, where two major elective subjec...