The 2023 West African Secondary School Certificate Examinations (WASSCE) will officially begin next week for some West African Countries.
The countries include; Nigeria, Gambia, Liberia and Sierra Leone. According to their timetable, the 2023 WASSCE will start on Monday, 8th May, 2023 and end on Friday, 23rd June, 2023
What About Ghana
Ghana will start it’s 2023 WASSCE on Monday, 31st July, 2023. Ghana will write this year’s WASSCE alone. Usually, four other Africa countries, including, Nigeria, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Gambia write the WASSCE at the same time with Ghana.
“The examination, which will once again be a Ghana only version of the WASSCE will be conducted from Monday, 31st July to Tuesday, 26th September, 2023. The final timetable for the examination will be made available to all schools and will be on the WAEC website as well. Candidates are advised to contact their schools or visit the WAEC website for the accurate timetable. Candidates should refrain from downloading timetables from unverifiable websites”
This is not the first time that Ghana is conducting it’s exams separately. The reason is because, the other four-member countries of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) — Nigeria, Liberia, Sierra Leone and The Gambia, have returned to the May/June calendar and had administered the WASSCE for their school candidates.
The four countries have had their academic calendars streamlined to enable them to write the examination in May/June, as Ghana sticks to the ‘new normal’ calendar occasioned.
Notwithstanding the late sitting, Ghanaian candidates will still compete for the National Distinction Award and the WAEC Excellence Award with candidates from those countries.
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2023 WASSCE candidates have been advised to create a Personal Study Timetable for their studies.
A personal study timetable is a draft of the subjects you want to study for each day of the week. The timetable must cover from Monday to Sunday
Creating a personal study timetable is a productive reading technique to get good grades in your examination. A study timetable should not contain too many goals. The problem here is that you will not be able to achieve your study objectives. It is better to go for a schedule that is practical and achievable.
Also, candidates must learn past questions as most WASSCE questions are generated from the previous years’s exams.