A total of 375, 737 candidates will from today, Monday, July 20 begin sitting for the 2020 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) in Ghana.
The figure which comprises 187,574 males and 188,163 females for this year’s’ WASSCE also represents the first batch of students to have enrolled in the government’s flagship free Senior High School (SHS) policy.
In all, 60 subjects including four core and 56 elective subjects are to be written.
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Beginning with Project Work for Visual Arts candidates, the theory papers is set to commence from August 3, 2020, until September 5, 2020.
The West African Examination Council (WAEC) which conducts the WASSCE concurrently in anglophone West Africa; Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone, The Gambia and Liberia announced on 20th March 2020 that it was indefinitely suspending the annual exam due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Meanwhile, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has asked students, teachers and invigilators who will be involved in the conduct of the 2020 WASSCE to abide by COVID-19 protocols.
“Just as has been done over the course of the last four weeks, since their return to school, I continue to urge everyone associated with the conduct of this year’s WASSCE, i.e teaching and non-teaching staff, invigilators and students, to abide by the enhanced hygiene, mask-wearing and social distancing protocols they have become accustomed to. They continue to remain our weapons in the fight to defeat COVID-19,” the President said.
President Nana Addo also extended best wishes to students who will be taking the WASSCE.
