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January 2025 Private WASSCE Timetable and Recommended Books

January 2025 Private WASSCE Timetable and Recommended Books for English and Literature

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The West African Examination Council (WAEC) has released the January 2025 Private WASSCE Timetable and Recommended Books for English and Literature.

The released materials are to serve as a guide for students who intend to write the first-ever series for private candidates in Ghana.

 

January 2025 Private WASSCE Timetable and Recommended Books

While the registration ends on January 8th, 2025, the examination starts on January 25th, 2025.

  1. Download the exam timetable released by WAEC here (2025 WASSCE-PC 1 TIMETABLE)— Download
  2. SET OF LITERATURE BOOKS >> Download
  3. LIST OF MUSIC SET PIECES >>>Download
  4. PRESCRIBED TEXTS FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE – Download
  5. PRESCRIBED TEXTS FOR GHANAIAN LANGUAGE >>Download
  6. 2025 WASSCE-PC 1 REGISTRATION MANUAL>> Download

 

LIST OF PRESCRIBED TEXTS FOR THE WEST AFRICAN SENIOR SCHOOL CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION (WASSCE) ENGLISH LANGUAGE (CORE) (SCHOOL AND PRIVATE, 2022-2026).

1. PROSE
One (1) of the following texts shall be studied:
(i) Robert Louis Stevenson: Treasure Island
(ii) MamleWolo: The Kaya Girl

2. DRAMA
One (1) of the following texts shall be studied:
(i) Henrik Ibsen: An Enemy of the People
(ii) Bill Marshall: The Son of Umbele

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3. POETRY
One (1) of the following sets of poems should be selected for detailed study:
(a) NON-AFRICAN POETRY
(i) Wilfred Owen: Anthem for Doomed Youth
(ii) Walt Whitman: I sit and Look Out
(iii) John Donne: Batter my Heart Three-Person’d God
(iv) D.H. Lawrence: Piano
(v) Claude Mckay: If We Must Die

(b) AFRICAN POETRY
(i) Oswald Mtshali: Nightfall in Soweto
(ii) Kofi Awoonor: The Weaverbird
(iii) J.P. Clark Night Rain
(iv) David Rubadiri: An African Thunderstorm
(v) Gabriel Okara Once Upon a Time

READ: January 2025 Private WASSCE vs. NOVDEC: Why the January Exam is a Game-Changer for Ghanaian Students

RECOMMENDED ANTHOLOGIES CONTAINING THE ABOVE SET POEMS

1. K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds): A selection of African Poetry (Longman) 1996
2. Woelli Dekutse and John Sackey: An Anthology of contemporary Ghanaian Poems
3. Wole Soyinka (ed): Poems of Black Africa (HEBM) 1975
4. Ruth Miller & Robert A. Greenberg (eds): Poetry: An Introduction (Macmillan) 1985
5. Arthur W. Biddle & Tony Fulwiler Angles of Vision (McGraw Hill, NY, 1992
6. Any other anthology containing any of the set poems.

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