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WAEC 2026 private WASSCE registration: exam registration details out

Posted on by Wisdom K.E Hammond
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The West African Examination Council (WAEC) has announced the start of registration of candidates for the NOV/DEC, also known as Private WASSCE (PC) for all qualified candidates. This is also known as the second series because it is the second WASSCE for private candidates to be administered in the year.

Who qualified to sit for the 2026 Private WASSCE or NOV/DEC exam?

Three categories of students qualify to write the WASSCE PC exam. These are:

  1. Students who failed the previous school or private examination.
  2. All students who received tuition outside the usual school environment, such as home schooling.
  3. All students in SHS who believe they are academically prepared can take the examination just as any other student.

What is the start and end date for the 2026 Private WASSCE or NOV/DEC exam?

According to WAEC’s official document that announced the commencement of registration, the schedule for the receipt of entries is April 22nd, August 2026. All candidates are expected to complete their registration and payment on or before the stated closing date.  WAEC furthered that 24–28 August 2026 is for the payment for normal registration only.

What is the scheduled examination date?

WAEC, in its release for the examination, is scheduled to start the exam on 23 October and end on 17 December, 2026.

Would WAEC extend the NOVDEC WASSCE registration date?

Yes, WAEC will extend the registration date, but it will not change the examination.

Every year, WAEC extends the date about twice and charges penalties for late registration. This year is not expected to be any different.

School candidates who would fail the 2026 WASSCE (SC) would have to sit this examination well. WAEC is expected to extend the registration date to allow such students to also register for the resit exam.

Where do I download the 2026 WASSCE (PC) timetable? Is the timetable out?

At the time of this publication, WAEC had not released the timetable for the second series. However, it has indicated in its NOVDEC registration manual that the timetable may be accessed by downloading it from the registration interface. Usually, WAEC uploads the timetable here. When the timetable is released, candidates are advised to study the timetable carefully in order to avoid a clash of subjects.

How to register for the 2026 WASSCE Private Candidates examination (Second Series)

The guide below provides all the needed information to enable students to register for the examination without any challenges. Prospective candidates are to follow the steps below to register:

  1. Candidates CAN ONLY select centres after payment of fees. (1) Open the registration website: www.waecgh.org
  2. Select the link to WASSCE for private candidates.
  3. Click on START REGISTRATION HERE.
  4. Fill in the required security information data, i.e. password, security question, etc.
  5. Fill in your personal information.
  6. Upload your picture. (See Caption 9 for details.)
  7. Upload your signature.
  8. Select the subject(s) you intend to write.
  9. Print your invoice and take it to any of the banks listed in Caption 15.
  10. Pay the appropriate fees at the bank.
  11. Select the Centre where you wish to take the examination.
  12. You will use your Invoice Number to access your Index Number and Admission Notice from mid-October, 2026.

NOTE THAT YOUR REGISTRATION IS NOT VALID UNTIL YOU PAY THE REQUISITE FEE.

13.       BARRED CANDIDATES

Barred candidates who register for the examination before the expiration of their sanction will have their registration annulled and fees paid shall be forfeited.

  1. REGISTRATION FEES

                (1)       Subject Fees

The subject fees are as follows:

6 or more subjects      …        …        GH¢1,054.04

5 subjects        …        …        …        GH¢ 993.01

4 subjects        …        …        …        GH¢ 927.96

3 subjects        …        …        …        GH¢ 853.44

2 subjects        …        …        …        GH¢ 810.68

1 subject          …        …        …        GH¢ 766.82

 

                (2)        Fees for Oral/Practical/Project Work

Candidates who offer subjects with oral/practical/project work component will pay additional fees as follows:

GH¢ 98.42 per subject for Practical Test/ICT

GH¢ 98.42 per subject for Project Work

GH¢104.70 per subject for Oral (English, Arabic and French)

                (3)       Correction of Entries during normal registration period

            After submission of entries, any amendments by candidates during the normal registration period will attract the following charges:

  • GH¢100.00 plus Practical/Project Work/Oral fee where applicable
  • GH₵200.00 for change of Centre, substitution of subject, correction of name, Date of Birth, Address and Photograph.
  • Addition of Subject(s) will attract the subject fees as indicated in 14(1) above.

Note: Any change made after the normal registration period will attract the fees specified in 14(4) below.

                (4)        Penalties

Entries made after the normal registration period will attract the following:

  • Late Entry: One and half (1½) times the total entry fee;
  • Substitution of Subject(s): One and half (1½) times the subject(s) fee indicated in 14(1) and 14(2) above;
  • Addition of Subject(s): Twice the subject(s) fee indicated in 14(1) and 14(2) above;

LIST OF DESIGNATED BANKS

Candidates may pay their registration fees at any branch of the following banks:

  • Agriculture Development Bank (ADB)
  • Zenith Bank (GH) Limited
  • Ecobank (GH) Limited
  • Bank of Africa (GH) Limited
  • United Bank of Africa (UBA)
  • Prudential Bank (GH) Limited
  • Access Bank
  • Consolidated Bank (GH) Limited

The registration shall become valid only after the requisite fee has been paid and the appropriate receipt obtained by the candidate at the bank.

REFUND OF FEES

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) does NOT undertake to refund fees paid for its services.

REQUEST FOR RE-MARKING

Requests for remarking received 60 days after the release of final results would not be considered.  Any candidate who makes a request for remarking will be required to pay the appropriate fee.

 

THE WEST AFRICAN EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL, ACCRA WEST AFRICAN SENIOR SCHOOL CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION FOR PRIVATE CANDIDATES

DIRECTIONS TO CANDIDATES

  1. You are expected to be seated 30 minutes before the start of a paper. Candidates who report after the start of the paper would not be admitted into the examination hall.
  2. If you arrive after the start of the paper, you will not be allowed to write the examination. A candidate is deemed to be late after the Supervisor has issued the order to start work.
  3. Note that you will be required to go through biometric verification (identification of candidates by their finger prints).
  4. Read very carefully the general directions given at the front cover page of the question paper. You will not gain extra marks if you answer more than the number of questions you are required to answer. Much time may be wasted in writing down information not asked for.
  5. Candidates offering Art or Geometrical/Building/Mechanical Drawing or Typewriting, must bring their own drawing boards or drawing instruments or typewriter to the examination hall.
  6. If you decide to leave the examination room before the end of the period allotted to the paper, you must not take your question paper away with you; you must hand it over with your script to the Supervisor. You may, however, return at the end of the test to collect your question paper.
  7. As soon as you are told that time is up, ensure that your answer booklet has your full name and index number written on it. Wait until your script has been collected before you leave the examination hall.

CAUTION

  1. Candidates whose examination results have been cancelled for resorting to dishonest means shall be refused re-entry to future examinations.
  2. Candidates must ensure that there are no marks or inscriptions on their Admission Notices.
  3. It is the responsibility of candidates to check inside, under and around their desks for notes, books, pieces of paper or any foreign materials and hand them over to the Supervisor/ Invigilator before sitting at their desks to write a paper.
  4. All candidates must submit themselves to searching by the Supervisor/Invigilator or Council representative before entering the Examination Hall. Candidates are not permitted to have in their possession any foreign material, while in the Examination Room, except the correct question paper given out by the Supervisor/Invigilator. Neither should they bring any book, memorandum nor pocketbook, notes, calculator manuals and cases or papers whatsoever into the Examination Room.

 

Candidates using mathematical instruments as permitted by the Regulations must see to it that any information (formulae or other data) shown on them is securely covered up. The instrument boxes must be shown to the Supervisor before being used.

  1. Under no circumstances should any candidate take a Mobile Phone/Smart watch or any electronic communication devices into the examination room. The punishment for bringing any such gadget into the examination room is the cancellation of the candidate’s entire results.
  2. Candidates should not take any used or unused answer booklets out of the Examination Room. Candidates disregarding this caution would be severely punished.
  3. Candidates guilty of disorderly conduct or causing disturbance in or near the Examination Room are liable to be expelled from the examination.
  4. Candidates and parents are to note that candidates who are alleged to have been involved in examination malpractice shall have their relevant results withheld. The candidate will also be invited to fair hearing as part of investigation and the relevant results will be cancelled if found capable.
  5. The Council reserves the right to cancel the results of candidates if it believes that they have been involved in irregularities before, during or after the examination.
  6. It is a criminal offence punishable by law to engage in any examination malpractice (WAEC Law, Act 719 (2006)). You are hereby requested to comport yourself strictly in accordance with the regulations bearing in mind that in addition to having your examination results cancelled; you may be prosecuted in court.
  7. Do not use correcting fluid to clean name or index number. The use of correcting fluid (tipex) is not allowed.
  8. No amendment of date of birth will be allowed after release of results. All requests for amendment of any information on bio-data will only be considered during the registration and before the conduct of the examination.  Under no circumstance, will the Council consider correction of error of any kind after certificates have been printed.

SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS REGARDING OBJECTIVE TEST PAPERS

These instructions should be carefully followed by candidates taking objective tests.

  1. You must use only the pencils supplied by WAEC. You are required to bring a pencil sharpener, an eraser and a ruler.
  2. You must write your full index number and name on the question paper.
  3. The answer sheets are pre-printed with candidates’ names, index numbers and test codes. You should make sure that you have the correct answer sheet which bears your own index number and name. You are required to re-shade the machine shading of your index number and test code within the limits of the spaces provided.
  4. All index numbers and answers must be shaded in pencil. Biros, Ball pens or Fountain pens must NOT be used under any circumstance to shade index numbers and answers.  The scoring machine can only read pencil marks; it is therefore necessary that you use only PENCIL in shading your index number and answers.
  5. To record your index number, you must shade carefully the spaces provided for index number. An example has been given on the cover of each question paper and this must be closely followed. The shading should cover the full width and length of the response position.  The objective answer sheets are pre-printed with candidates’ names and index numbers;
  6. Answer spaces must be shaded as shown below for C.

=A=                 =B=                 =C=                 =D=                 =E=

Note that the answer space has been shaded completely; note also that the shading does not continue beyond the two lines. Failure to shade the answer space as shown may result in loss of marks. “No mark should extend more than one-sixteenth of an inch beyond the edges or ends of the marked positions”.

  1. You must shade ONE AND ONLY ONE answer-space for each question. Candidates should note that marking two responses to one question automatically denies them any score for the question. Therefore if you shade an answer-space in error, erase the wrong shading completely and shade the correct answer-space. If a candidate makes a poor erasure and substitutes a new answer, there is the danger that the computer will read the erasure as a mark and give no score.
  2. Under NO circumstance must the objective answer sheet be folded or crumpled or damaged. The computer will reject such answer sheets.
  3. Candidates are further asked to note that since the West African Examinations Council processes over three million answer sheets per year, it is quite impossible for each one to be given individual human scrutiny. It is, therefore, the clear responsibility of the candidate to complete his Objective Answer Sheet exactly as described in these instructions.

SPECIAL WARNING ON STARTING AND ENDING A PAPER

  1. When question papers are given out, no candidate should start work before the order to start is given. Furthermore, when the order “stop work!” is given, candidates should immediately put down their pens or pencils. Any candidate found working before the order is given to start work or order to stop work is given, will be deemed/considered as having committed an irregularity and will be penalized accordingly.

SPECIAL WARNING ON CENTRE ARRANGEMENT

  1. Candidates must present their Admission Notices at the Centres assigned to them. Candidates who do not present their Admission Notices will not be allowed to write the examination.
  2. Candidates must write the examination only at centres assigned to them by WAEC. Candidates who write the examination at centres not assigned them will not get their result(s) processed.

SPECIAL WARNING ON MOBILE PHONES

  1. Under no circumstance should mobile phones be brought into the examination hall.

            Where a candidate is found with a mobile phone or any other electronic communication device in the examination hall, the entire results of the candidate  shall be withheld pending the cancellation of his/her entire results by the appropriate Committee of Council.

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