422,883 final-year senior high school (SHS) students in total across the country will write this year’s West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for School Candidates.
The high school exams, which will begin with the practical session today, August 1, will involve 203,753 males and 219,130 females nationwide.
Also, the exams will be written in 977 schools, comprising 673 public schools and 304 private schools. It will be manned by 775 supervisors.
According to statistics from the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) made available to Skyy Headline News 28,485 candidates; made up of 13,031 males and 15,454 females will take part in the WASSCE for School Candidates in the Western and Western North regions respectively.
It must be emphasised that Ghana will be writing the WASSCE for school candidates alone this year, as the other member countries of WAEC have already written the examination.
