WAEC Takes Steps to Ensure Leakage-Free WASSCE and BECE

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has announced that it has taken a number of steps to ensure that the 2023 WASSCE and BECE examinations are leakage-free. It is the prayer of well-meaning stakeholders that all students who engage in any acts of Apor are caught in the act just as schools that will attempt it.

WAEC’s Steps to Ensure Leakage-Free WASSCE and BECE

These steps include:

• Increasing the number of depots used for storing examination papers, to reduce the distance from the depots to the schools that will serve as examination centers.
• Releasing question papers no earlier than 45 minutes before the start of the examinations.
• Inspecting all depots for examination question papers to ensure that they are in good shape and secure.
• Moving question papers in bits, so that only the papers needed for a particular week or few days are at the depots at any given time.
• Working closely with security agencies to track and arrest dealers and operators of rogue websites that sell leaked examination papers.
• Monitoring the examinations by staff of the Council, monitoring agents, the NIB, and other security agencies.

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The 2023 WASSCE for School will be administered at 834 centers across the country, and a total of 447,204 candidates are expected to sit for the examination. The 2023 BECE for School and Private Candidates will be administered from August 7-11, 2023, at 18,993 participating public and private Junior High Schools (JHSs).

WAEC said that it is committed to ensuring the integrity of its examinations, and that it will take all necessary steps to prevent leakages.

Additional Information

• The 2023 WASSCE and BECE will be administered in a total of 60 subjects, comprising four core and 56 electives.
• The 2023 WASSCE for School will start on August 15 and end on August 31, 2023.
• The 2023 BECE for School and Private Candidates will start on August 7 and end on August 11, 2023.