WAEC reveals areas with prevalent cheating incidents

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has pushed up far reaching unsettle over the heightening occurrence of misconduct during examination over the country. The Council has singled out the Bono, Bono East, and Ahafo regions as main centres of this bordering course.

In 2023 just, 18,504 students were caught to have taken part in examination malpractice during examinations. Expectations for 2024 imply minimal to no advancement. Addressing at a beneficiaries’ gathering, Daniel Nii Dodoo, Head of Humanities at WAEC’s Test Division, urged that the increasing course gives rise to a deep danger to national security, weakens the morality of educational institutions, and disintegrate social confidence in the system.

He cried out for critical interference in the Bono regions, mentioning their swiftly increasing rates of misconduct. He also mentioned that the Ashanti Region is still a high priority area of worry because of its rising number of misconducts.

WAEC stated clear that the regional ranks of misconduct during examination incidents from 2021 to 2023 is not made to mark out any specific area, but to enhance a better understanding of the matter and hearten acceptable examination practices, especially in notified centres regions.
As mentioned by WAEC, the raw facts should remind regional directors of education to intensify observation and controlling and to carefully maintain the orders directing and regulating the acceptable behaviours of examinations.

Mr Dodoo went on to emphasize that rampant misconduct during examination has extensive outcomes to face. He urged that persons who engage in examination malpractice during exams endanger themselves being uncovered in the professional world and that such misconduct could result to the deterioration of certificates at the global scale.

He said “Bono, Bono East, and Ahafo regions recorded the maximum number of candidates who engage in examination malpractice —18,504 in 2023. These are urgent areas needing Instant attention given their increasing course in misconduct involvement.” WAEC also highlighted familiar and coming up forms of examination malpractice in schools, showing serious worry about the rising complexity and dissemination of examination malpractice.

These courses, the Council urged, endanger the morality of the whole education system.
John Kapi, Head of Public Affairs at WAEC, emphasized that, the most familiar methods used:
“In recent years, the Council has noticed the following courses in examination malpractices: the use of electronic communication devices such as phones and tablets to in writing of the examination, finding and retrieving solutions from AI platforms during examinations, photocopying answers and sharing them to candidates, and students moving in the exam hall with unallowed materials.”

In reply to the rising course, WAEC is crying out for improved cooperation among key beneficiaries, including the Ghana Education Service, the Ministry of Education, school heads, and local authorities, to contribute and solve the issue in the country as a whole.

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