This year’s West African Senior School Certificate Examination, WASSCE, commences today, July 31, 2023.
The examination starts with candidates undertaking visual arts project works in Basketry, Ceramics and Graphic Design for two weeks.
A total of 447,204 candidates are expected to write the WASSCE. 211,834 males and 235,370 females are expected to sit for the examination at 834 centers across the country.
The total candidature represents an increase of 24,321 over last year’s candidature of 422,883.
In all, final-year students from 975-second cycle schools will participate in the examination, which is being written for the second time in Ghana.
There will be a total of 834 supervisors, 2,243 assistant supervisors and 14,907 invigilators to man the examination.
Ghanaian candidates are writing the Ghana only WASSCE-SC for the second successive time because the other four-member countries of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) — Nigeria, Liberia, Sierra Leone and The Gambia — have returned to the May/June calendar and had administered the WASSCE for their school candidates.