West African Examinations Council (WAEC) management on Thursday announced that 1.6 million students nationwide would write the May/June 2023 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE).
WAEC Head of National Office (HNO), Mr. Patrick Areghan, who stated this at the council Yaba headquarters, said 1, 621, 853 students sit for the school exam in over 22,000 secondary schools starting on Monday, May 8, 2023.
Areghan, who was flanked by the top management staff of the council said only two states owe WAEC for their sponsored students.
Areghan also revealed that despite the closure of entries for May/June 2023 WASSCE registration, some private schools are mounting pressure on WAEC to accommodate ‘candidates they went shopping’.
The WAEC boss said the examination in focus is the school candidates’ diet of WASSCE, meant for the regular exit-class (SS3) students in approved government and private secondary schools in the country.
Areghan said: “A total of 1,621,853 candidates from 20,851 secondary schools have registered for the examination. Out of this number, 798,810 are males, amounting to 49.25%, while 823,043 are females, which is 50.75% of the total candidature.
“The statistics show that there is a further increase and decreases in the number of females and males respectively, compared to the 2022 diet. On the whole, the candidature for the 2023 WASSCE (SC) increased by 13, 868 over the figure of 2022 1,607,985.
Candidates would be examined in 76 subjects, made up of 197 papers. About 30,000 practicing senior secondary school teachers, nominated by the various State Ministries of Education, would be participating in the examination as supervisors.
“Teachers in all the schools presenting candidates for the examination would serve as invigilators in their respective schools. Supervisors and invigilators for derecognized schools would be solely appointed, from outside the schools, by the State Ministries of Education concerned.”
