67, 513 SIT FOR WASSCE IN ASHANTI

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The Kumasi Zonal branch of the West African Examinations Council, WAEC, says all is fully prepared ahead of the formal commencement of this year’s West Africa Senior Schools Certificate Examination tomorrow, Thu. March 30, 2017. 

In the Ashanti region, a total of 67 thousand, 513 candidates have registered to write the exam. 

They are from 178 private and public senior high schools in the region. 

The Kumasi Zonal Controller of WAEC, Alex Boapem Bosompem, made this known to Ashanti Today in Kumasi. 

According to him, even though some of the candidates have been  writing the practicals and some of the Elective Papers since the 22nd of this month, all the registered candidates will be sitting for Integrated Science, the first Core Paper tomorrow/this morning at all the designated centers. 

He said as part of the new measures adopted to ensure security of the examination materials, the Question Papers and Answer Booklets in particular have already been distributed to specially set up depots.

 These depots are well fortified and under tight security arrangement and also located at places that are easily accessible to the centres.

 The new measure, the Zonal Controller explained, is to reduce to the bearest minimum, delays and risks that are usually associated with the transportation of the materials to the Centres. 

Mr. Bosompem assured also that enough relevant logistics and human resources including Invigilators and Supervisors have been contracted to ensure the success of the exam. 

Also, police personnel will be deployed to provide security at each of the centres while each of the centres will take not more than 200 candidates for effective supervision. 

He said his office has organized separate orientation programmes for both the candidates and Invigilators on the ‘Dos’ and ‘Don’ts’ of the examination to ensure compliance with the regulations of the exercise. 

Mr. Bosompem expressed regret about the failure of the Ghana Police Service to prosecute some people who were caught engaging in malpractices during last year’s WASSCE in the Ashanti region. 

A candidate, Invigilators and a Supervisor from the Ascension Senior High School were arrested at their Centre when one of the Papers written. 

The WAEC Zonal Controller noted that if the suspects had been conclusively prosecuted in Court, others with like mindedness would have been deterred from venturing into examination malpractices. 

Notwithstanding the current state of the matter, Mr. Bosompem advised all those involved in this year’s WASSCE to help make the exam credible.

    

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