Do you know that all 2024 WAEC Examinations Such As BECE, WASSCE, and NovDec Are Likely To Leak? While the West African Examination Council (WAEC) is working tirelessly to ensure the credibility of its local and international examinations, it needs to be aware of the danger that its 2024 BECE, WASSCE, and NovDec examinations are likely to be leaked.
Why All 2024 WAEC Examinations Likely To Leak
Some channels on Telegram have already promised they will be able to leak examination questions to candidates preparing for the 2024 BECE, WASSCE, and NovDec examinations. How confident is WAEC to counter these claims and activities?
The speed at which WAEC examination-leaking channels are springing up on Telegram is very alarming. Currently, most of the channel owners no longer use names that make it clear that they are into such illegalities.
Again, patrons of their services have become more clever; hence, they do not share such questions and answers bought from the syndicates as they used to in the past.
Given that both those selling these leaked questions and those buying remain silent about it, WAEC may think it has succeeded in dealing with the BECE, WASSCE, and NovDec examination leakage, which continues to threaten the credibility of the mentioned examinations.
The Four Types of Examination Leakages Likely to Hit WAEC in 2024
Currently, those who engage in the leakage of these examinations do so in two main ways.
[a] Release the questions and answers to their patrons at least 12 hours before the examination.
[b] The second method is that they release the questions and answers to patrons just before the exam starts or during the examination through WhatsApp and Telegram.
[c] Teachers and invigilators allowing candidates to copy each other or access foreign materials in the examination hall,
[d] Teachers solving the questions and sneaking them into the examination hall or leaving them at vantage locations preplanned and agreed upon for students to peak and take into the examination hall.
While the first method may be difficult for WAC to detect directly, the second is more manageable for WAEC because most of the students receiving these questions and answers receive them via social media on their mobile phones while in the examination hall.
Very often, students and parents are made to pay huge sums of money to get access to the BECE, WASSCE, and NovDec examination questions. Current data picked by Ghanaeducationnews.org from some channels shows that they are charging up to GHS150.00 as registration fees and a total of GHS750 for all subjects to be leaked.
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Possible Solutions To The Leakage of Examinations
What can WAEC do about the possible leakage of 2024 BECE, WASSCE, and NovDec examinations?
- WAEC can pretend that leakages are not possible, that its security systems are strong, and ignore such warnings.
- WAEC can also set up additional layers of security by planting its investigators in social media groups. Such persons will have to attempt to buy possible leaked examination questions from those selling them and actually pay for them. Once these papers are received and they turn out to be the very questions WAEC is administering to candidates for a given examination, WAEC can secure the services of the Ghana Police and the CID to help apprehend such persons.
- Make those found guilty of exam malpractice public.
- Make public the details of its own people and staff who breached security protocols for the examination questions and leaked such questions.
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The above suggestions and many more innovative ways will help protect the integrity of our examinations. If WAEC is to achieve any success in improving the security of examination materials and protecting the credibility of the organization and its examination, it must start scanning the environment for any hints related to the possibility of examination leakages now before it becomes difficult.
Source: Ghanaeducationnews.org