The West African Examination Council (WAEC) is yet to release the official results of the NovDec Results for candidates who sat the examination. The 2024 NovDec exam commenced on 24th October and ended on 20th December 2024. Thus, candidates have been waiting for 70 days with no result release date in sight.
This delay in the result release as well as the accompanying stress has compelled many students to keep looking for information. WAEC needs to work on its after-exam communication approach with all stakeholders.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with keeping candidates, schools and other stakeholders informed about the post-examination activity WAEC is undertaking at one particular time. This single, simple approach will reduce stress and tension among stakeholders.
To be quiet over a 70-day period without any information on the 2024 NovDec exam result is not the best and this approach, which is applied by WAEC in all its examination types administered in Ghana, must be given a second look.
As if the stress is not enough, the delay in release results also come with students losing opportunities. At the time of filing this report, Colleges of Education (COE) have opened admissions and there are many candidates who are looking forward to applying for admission; however, until their results are released and their fate is known, they cannot proceed to buy the teacher training forms.
Other students are also planning to apply to universities outside the country in the March admission window; however, they have been handicapped by the deafening silence of WAEC.
In 2023, WAEC released the results for the NOVDEC exam on 20th February, 2024 and yet this year is not out yet. When the school candidates WASSCE results were delayed, WAEC blamed it on the government’s failure to pay for the service rendered.
This became big news and stakeholders added their voices. However, all private WASSCE candidates paid the full cost of the exam yet their results are being delayed as well.
WAEC, apart from being handicapped by delays in the government’s release of funds for public school candidates, must take a careful look at its internal systems and processes used for the various examinations, especially the post-examination period.
Internal traditional processes that are not efficient must be refined, changed, and altered to align with speed- and accuracy-based processes without compromising the quality of service rendered.
WAEC must know that its delay in releasing the result of the 2024 Private WASSCE is not the best and it must use its social media communication channels to keep in touch with candidates and stakeholders.
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We are in the technology age and news must not take time to emanate from the source to its intended receivers. The WAEC 2024 NovDec Results Delay Is Stressful And Students Are Missing Missing. Release the result now.
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