The Ghana Solely model of the West African Senior College Certificates Examination (WASSCE) for College Candidates (SC) took off easily throughout the nation with English Orals yesterday.
Owing to the big numbers, candidates had been grouped to jot down the paper. Nevertheless, the candidates had been searched totally by invigilators earlier than being allowed into the examination halls.
There was additionally a heavy safety presence on the examination centres which are additionally getting used for the continued voters’ exhibition train.
They included personnel from the Police Service, Hearth Service, Prisons and the Immigration Service. The 2024 candidates are the sixth batch of beneficiaries of the free senior highschool (SHS) programme.
Impartial WASSCE
That is the third consecutive time Ghana is taking the WASSCE independently, having adopted a brand new calendar that was occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
The opposite 4 member nations making up the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) – Nigeria, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and The Gambia – have already reverted to the Could/June calendar and sat their WASSCE-SC.
In all, 460,611 candidates, made up of 212,954 males and 247,657 females from 1,003 colleges, are sitting the examination at 1,000 centres throughout the nation.
The conduct of the examination was typically clean at a number of the centres the Each day Graphic visited in Accra yesterday. They included Accra Excessive College, St Thomas Aquinas Senior Excessive College (SHS) and Labone SHS.
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At Accra Excessive College, which additionally had a voters’ exhibition centre, the primary of three batches of candidates had been writing the paper at 9 a.m.
The Assistant Supervisor on the centre, Fred Oppong Ampofo, stated the overall candidature was 719, and that quantity was divided into three to sit down for 45 minutes per session.
The males, he stated, had been 337, with the remaining being females.
It additionally had one listening to and speech-impaired candidate.
“Till we end we won’t know the variety of absentees. All the things is okay and all of the supplies can be found,” he stated.
One of many candidates, Alfred Akuffo, stated the paper was manageable. At St Thomas Aquinas Senior Excessive College the place 710 candidates are writing the WASSCE-SC, the third of the 4 batches was writing on the time of the go to.
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The Headmaster of the college, Amoasi Baidoo, stated the whole lot was clean and indicated that Info and Communications Expertise (ICT) practicals could be written at this time.
He additionally stated he wouldn’t be capable of determine the variety of absentees till all of the candidates had completed writing the paper. A candidate, Edmund Boakoh, stated though the Orals had been okay, he discovered it tough to listen to a number of the phrases from the audio.
He, nonetheless, expressed the hope of excelling. Labone SHS had 1,444 candidates who had been additionally divided into 4 batches.
The candidates used the meeting and eating halls for the examination. The Headmistress, Rejoice Acolor, stated the whole lot was occurring easily on the time of the go to.
WAEC
In the meantime, WAEC has assured all stakeholders and members of the general public that each one the required check safety measures had been put in place to make sure the examination was carried out efficiently.
It, nonetheless, famous with concern grand schemes by some establishments to have interaction in mass dishonest through the examination.
“Intelligence info picked up signifies that candidates in some elements of the nation are being charged sums of cash between GH¢200 and GH¢500 to obtain help from invigilators; supervisors at some centres are planning to assign lecturers to invigilate topics they train; some colleges have registered individuals who should not their bona fide college students,” the assertion stated.
The council additionally cautioned heads of colleges, supervisors and invigilators to desist from the follow as these concerned could be handled in keeping with the principles and laws of the examination.
It stated the council wouldn’t hesitate to nullify the entries of such candidates and people who would handle to sneak in would have their complete outcomes cancelled if discovered.