Ghana Education News| August 2021| WASSCE, BECE Online Examination being considered – WAEC
The examining body for West Africa, WAEC has disclosed plans to digitize WASSCE , BECE examinations. This would mean candidates would take their examinations online.
This was disclosed at a press conference organized by the West Africa Examination Council (WAEC) at the National Office of WAEC, in Accra.
“We are hoping that people would take their examinations online, but a lot would depend on our systems. We are working with the resources made available to us.”
Mrs. Addy-Lamptey advised all gatekeepers to be particularly attentive in order to prevent leakage and cheating during this year’s current WASSCE, noting that preventing examination malpractices was the duty of all stakeholders. The council’s projection of WASSCE, BECE Online Examination is yet to be accorded the year it would commence.
Meanwhile, the Head of National Office WAEC claims that all preparations for this year’s WASSCE have been completed.
Security has also been ramped up across the board, according to her.
As of this year’s WASSCE for School candidates, a total of 446,321 candidates are enrolled in 965 different schools, including 651 public schools and 314.
There are 221,437 men and 234,884 females among the applicants. As of 2020, there were 375,676 applicants.
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Some applicants have already begun their Visual Art Project Work on August 16 in 763 centres for this year’s WASSCE.
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