The West African Examination Council has revealed the total number of subject papers to be written at the 2023 WASSCE.
There are some courses offered at the senior high school which are not examined or written at the WASSCE. Some include, ICT(Core) and Physical Education. These two courses are offered in schools to give students the general knowledge of it.
According to WAEC, a total of 60 subjects will be written at the 2023 WASSCE. These subjects comprises of 4 Core Subjects which include, English Language, Core Mathematics, Integrated Science and Social Studies.
Also a total of 447,204 candidates, made up of 211,834 males and 235,370 females drawn from 975 schools have entered for the examination. This figure indicates an increase of 5.8% compared to the 2022 entry figure of 422,883. The examination is taking place at 834 centres across the country.
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The WASSCE for School Candidates, 2023 commenced on Monday, 31st July, 2023 with the Visual Art Project work. The question papers for the project work were given to candidates two weeks earlier. This component of the examination will end on Friday, 18th August, 2023. The examination will continue with the theory papers on Monday, 21st August, 2023.
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According to the West African Examinations Council, it is going to serialize some topics and questions in the 2023 WASSCE.
The serialisation process simply means that all candidates in the same hall will receive the same question, but with different question numbers. This move is to curb exam malpractices.
Addressing the media, the Head of Public Affairs at the Council, John Kapi says the chosen subjects will be serialised because those subjects can’t be compromised.
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“Serialisation is not anything that is landing from space. Besides nothing has changed about the structure of the questions. It is just that we have serialised some of them. It is our trade secret, and we want to maintain that. We are not unduly punishing anybody, it is the same question just that there is some serialisation. There are some of these papers that are high stake and so for those high stake papers we would want to serialise them.”
“Secondly it is a very expensive venture to get into, it is time-consuming and all of that. And so we concentrate more on the high stake papers and then there are a few of them that we consider as low risk, and so we don’t serialise those ones,” he said.