Education

WAEC To Close Down 2023 WASSCE Registration Portal Next Week

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) is set for close down the 2023 WASSCE registration portal on Wednesday, 19th April, 2023.

This comes after WAEC opened the 2023 WASSCE registration portal on Wednesday, 15^th March, 2023 for all eligible candidates to register in their respective senior high schools. The deadline for this registration is Wednesday, 19th April, 2023. Any student that fails to avail himself or herself for registration in their schools may be denied the opportunity to write the exams.

The WASSCE for School Candidates is a school examination and is available to students in the third/final year of Senior High School only. It is therefore against the rules and regulations of the examination for schools to engage in the following activities:

Solicit for students and advertise the WASSCE for School Candidates in any form e.g. in the print, electronic or social media;
Register students who have not been enrolled in senior high school from their first year through to the third year and do not have the required continuous assessment records. The grading for the WASSCE (SC) is 70% external examination score and 30% continuous assessment score. Students who for one reason or the other transferred from one school to the other should have evidence of the necessary continuous assessment records;
Register students who are not in final year or are not bona fide students of the school in question. We have received intelligence reports of some students in public schools who move from their schools to private schools to register for the examination because of assurances of obtaining good grades by these schools;
Register ‘remedial’ students who have previously written the WASSCE (SC) and join some public/accredited private schools in form three for examination purposes only. Such students are being advised to register for the WASSCE for Private Candidates which has been specifically designed for remedial students and offers them the opportunity to register for the number of subjects they wish to take.

Period of Examination

The examination, which will once again be a Ghana only version of the WASSCE will be conducted from Monday, 31st July to Tuesday, 26th September, 2023. The final timetable for the examination will be made available to all schools and will be on the WAEC website as well. Candidates are advised to contact their schools or visit the WAEC website for the accurate timetable. Candidates should refrain from downloading timetables from unverifiable websites.