Is it true that WAEC’s motto is ‘your failure our success’?

Is it true that WAEC’s motto is ‘your failure our success’ for BECE & WASSCE? Have you also head about this motto?

You might have heard that WAEC’s motto for the famous BECE and WASSCE examinations is ‘your failure is our success. People often claim that WAEC intentionally fails students who take its national and international examinations.

There are also stories that suggest that when students fail their WASSCE and BECE, for instance, WAEC gets excited.

However, our cross-check of the facts has proven beyond reasonable doubt that ‘your failure, our success’ has never been the motto of WAEC for BECE and WASSCE examinations.

The phrase might have been coined by students who sat the WAEC examination very long ago, and this false belief has been inherited by nearly every batch of students WAEC administers its examinations to.

The leadership of WAEC has indicated clearly that the motto of the sub-regional examination body is “Committed to Excellence” and not “Your failure is our success.”.

Facts About WAEC

1. WAEC was created by a law to be an examining body for all English-speaking countries in West Africa.
2. It was born in 1952 and named the West African Examination Council.
3. It has five member states.
4. Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and the Gambia are the countries that write examinations administered by WAEC.
5. The WAEC is a globally recognized examination body.
6. WAEC conducts country-specific and international examinations for schools and other institutions that request its services at a fee.

Below are some departments/committees under WAEC when it started operations.

1. Administrative and Finance Committee
2. The School Examinations Committee,
3. The Public Service Examinations Committee
4. The Professional, Technical and Commercial Examinations Committee
5. The Local Committee.

In a related development, WAEC will conduct WASSCE for school candidates across Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and the Gambia in 2024. Ghana will however write the WASSCE (SC) alone, while the other countries will be administered with the same questions in many instances for the WASSCE.

WAEC will also in 2024 administer in Ghana the BEC. Ghana will introduce the new curriculum for basic schools in 2019 and administer the BECE for the first time in 2024.

The WAEC has outlined all new and old rules that will govern the WASSCE and BECE examinations.

Candidates can find the rules by reading the 2024 WASSCE and BECE Rules According to WAEC, which were published earlier by Ghanaeducationnews.org.

Candidates are also to carefully read the post on You Can’t Take These Items To The Exams Hall During WASSCE (Illegal Items). Note that such items, if found on a candidate, will have serious consequences.

Is the WASSCE 2024 timetable out in Ghana? Has WAEC released the 2024 BECE timetable?

With regards to the 2024 BECE and 2024 WASSCE timetables, WAEC is officially not out with a timetable yet, although Ghanaeducationnews.org has sighted an unofficial timetable for the WASSCE examination to be administered to Ghanaian candidates. Some of the subjects and the dates they will be administered can be found here. 2024 WASSCE Timetable for Ghana Out But Not Official Yet

WAEC is yet to officially release the 2024 BECE timetable as well.