[ 2015-03-25 ]

270,000 final-year students to write WASSCE
A total of 268,771 final-year senior high school
(SHS) student candidates will write this year’s
West African Senior School Certificate Examination
(WASSCE) from Monday next week.

The figure represents an increase of 20,603
candidates over the 2014 figure of 242,162
candidates.

The candidates writing the 2015 WASSCE are from
868 public and private second cycle schools. They
will be writing the examination at 866 centres.

Statistics of the 2015 WASSCE made available to
the Daily Graphic indicates that 139,843 males
will sit the examination as against 128,928
females.

Ashanti Region has the highest number of
candidates of 62,472, comprising 31,701 males and
30,771 females.

Following the Ashanti Region is the Eastern Region
with 39,821 candidates, made up of 19,814 males
and 20,007 females.

The Central Region has the third largest number of
candidates of 28,312, with 14,530 males and 13,782
females.

Closely following that region is the Greater Accra
Region with 28,000 candidates (13,884 males and
14,116 females).

Brong Ahafo Region has 26,675 candidates (14,055
males and 12,620 females).

Volta Region has 22,980 candidates made up of
12,505 males and 10,475 females.

A total of 23,324 candidates, 14,053 males and
9,271 females, are writing in the Northern
Region.

The Upper East Region has 11,572 candidates; 6,101
males and 5,471 females.

The region with the least number of candidates is
the Upper West Region with 3,999 males and 3,061
females.

The WASSCE will be written in Ghana, Nigeria,
Liberia, Sierra Leone and The Gambia.

Last year, candidates from Liberia and Sierra
Leone did not take part in the examination because
of the ebola disease.

The examinations begin with Integrated Science on
Monday, March 30, 2015.

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) had
to revise the timetable of the examination because
of the elections in Nigeria.

Source - Daily Graphic

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