The West African Examination Council (WAEC) will release the provisional results of the 2020 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) today.
The release follows the completion of all its post-examination processes.
A total of 422,883 senior high school (SHS) students across the country sit for the WASSCE exams.
Per the gender demographic presented by WAEC, 203,753 of the candidates were males, while 219,130 were females.
Meanwhile, WAEC disclosed in a statement that its outfit is carrying out ongoing investigations into examination irregularities detected during and after the exams.
“The Council is hereby urging school authorities and candidates who have been invited to its offices to assist with investigations into suspected cases of malpractice to endeavour to honour the invitations to facilitate the speedy resolution of those cases,” the statement noted.
Examination malpractice has predominantly become part and parcel of Ghana’s educational system.
Students’ involvement in examination malpractice has become increasingly worrying.
In 2021, the entire results of 174 candidates who sat for the 2021 WASSCE were cancelled due to examination malpractices.
Finding better solutions to nipping exam malpractice in the bud, the education think tank Africa Education Watch, admonished WAEC to stop the use of supervisors from the Ghana Education Service (GES) and solely use external supervisors during the West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE).
Programme Officer at the Africa Education Watch, Kwasi Nimo Jnr. stated that centres which had GES supervisors recorded high cases of exam malpractices.
He said, “GES staff cannot be made to supervise their own students with an interest for them to pass to enhance their own KPIs. This is what we are recommending because our monitoring report showed that, whenever there are WAEC supervisors on the ground, there is orderliness and no cheating.”
Source: The Independent Ghana