Best Ghanaian applicants are left to jot down the West African Senior excessive faculty certificate examination (WASSCE), scheduled from August 1 to September 27, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That is because of the fact the other 4-member international locations of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) \u2014 Nigeria, Liberia, Sierra Leone and The Gambia \u2014 have once more to the can also\/June calendar and had administered the WASSCE for their college candidates from may additionally 9 to June 24, this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 4 countries have had their instructional calendars streamlined to permit them to write the examination in may also\/June, as Ghana sticks to the \u2018new regular\u2019 calendar occasioned via manner of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Notwithstanding the late sitting, Ghanaian candidates will nonetheless compete for the country wide distinction Award and the WAEC Excellence Award with applicants from those international locations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOur candidates will notwithstanding the fact that compete for the countrywide distinction Award and the WAEC Excellence Award, it genuinely is normally competed for with the aid of all applicants within the 5-member international locations,\u201d the head of the Ghana national workplace of WAEC, Wendy Enyonam Addy-Lamptey, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Semester tool<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In an special interview with the daily graphic, Mrs Addy-Lamptey explained that because candidates inside the u . S . Started out out their educational yr on February 7, this one year, because of the new semester gadget, they were no longer able to join in the exam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She defined that considering the start of the 2022 educational yr, the time changed into too quick for the candidates to put in writing the WASSCE in may also\/June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The time changed into too short and the candidates might also need to now not have properly organized for the exam and so the Ministry of training asked that or now not it is achieved for them in August and September 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cFollowing from that, Ghanaian applicants will write a Ghana-only model of the WASSCE for faculty applicants, beginning from August 1 and completing on September 27,\u201d she defined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Caution<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mrs Addy-Lamptey positioned that rogue internet site operators and scammers had already acquired snapshots of beyond query papers for WASSCE 2022 administered inside the special member global locations and had been using those snapshots to sell it their net web sites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201ca few have asked applicants to sign in via paying a rate. We need to inform our publics that the exam being done has absolutely one in every of a type questions\/parallel questions from the papers written in the unique member international locations,\u201d she emphasized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The pinnacle of the national office of WAEC, however, introduced that the questions may want to in truth be of the equal hassle diploma and gave an guarantee that \u201call publish-examination arrangements might be handled the world over\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cfor instance, the same old solving and Grading Awards conferences might also need to have representatives from the 5 member nations,\u201d she described.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Education<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A standard of 422,883 applicants from 977 faculties registered for the WASSCE after the extended last date of April 8, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The entry determine covered seventy candidates with visual impairment, fabricated from 39 person men and 33 ladies, similarly to 14 candidates with hearing impairment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mrs Addy-Lamptey defined that 60 topics, comprising four middle and fifty six electives, is probably administered to capability candidates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cin addition to the four middle topics that every one candidates write, candidates have the option to select up to a maximum of 4 non-obligatory subjects from the seven programmes furnished in senior excessive schools,\u201d she further explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Depots<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She described that the council utilised dedicated centers (depots) for the storage of personal substances inside the numerous groups, and gave an guarantee that \u201csuch facilities have been inspected and the vital fortification and refurbishment works are being completed to make sure that they meet the safety necessities\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis year, the type of depots has been improved to lessen the time taken in shifting the question papers from the depots to the exam centres, pushing the depots toward the examination centres,\u201d she disclosed to the daily photo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Touch hours<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Director-standard of the Ghana Educative carrier (GES), Professor Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa, moreover in an interview, defined that the u . S . Was doing a period of restoration getting to know and couldn’t, consequently, pass lower back to the can also\/June timetable right now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He defined that Ghana end up unique about touch hours for applicants and will, therefore, no longer go back to the can also\/June duration without delay, thinking about the time the 2022 academic twelve months started out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He described that once Ghana changed from the unmarried song to the double track, \u201cwe made fantastic that we did not lose contact hours, so we calculated the range of contact hours that had to be accomplished within a given yr\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSo, for a given 365 days, the calculation turn out to be that we had been going to do 1,134 contact hours. So right now after the COVID-19, what we did end up that we had to go lower returned to do that calculation, and while we ran the numbers, we realised that the earliest time we must do the examination once more have become a while in August and September,\u201d he defined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201chowever, the alternative international locations, irrespective of some thing, determined to move earlier folks. They reopened faculties a whole lot in advance than February, and immediately after the examination in 2021, they reversed to the vintage device. However we used our restoration duration after which our touch hours to do our calculation,\u201d Prof. Opoku-Amankwa stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
BY: RUTH -CAROLYN SEKYIMAA KISSI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Best Ghanaian applicants are left to jot down the West African Senior excessive faculty certificate examination (WASSCE), scheduled from August 1 to September 27, 2022.<\/p>\n
That is because of the fact the other 4-member international locations of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) \u2014 Nigeria, Liberia, Sierra Leone and The Gambia \u2014 have once more to the can also\/June calendar and had administered the WASSCE for their college candidates from may additionally 9 to June 24, this year.<\/p>\n
The 4 countries have had their instructional calendars streamlined to permit them to write the examination in may also\/June, as Ghana sticks to the \u2018new regular\u2019 calendar occasioned via manner of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.<\/p>\n
Notwithstanding the late sitting, Ghanaian candidates will nonetheless compete for the country wide distinction Award and the WAEC Excellence Award with applicants from those international locations.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur candidates will notwithstanding the fact that compete for the countrywide distinction Award and the WAEC Excellence Award, it genuinely is normally competed for with the aid of all applicants within the 5-member international locations,\u201d the head of the Ghana national workplace of WAEC, Wendy Enyonam Addy-Lamptey, said.<\/p>\n
Semester tool<\/p>\n
In an special interview with the daily graphic, Mrs Addy-Lamptey explained that because candidates inside the u . S . Started out out their educational yr on February 7, this one year, because of the new semester gadget, they were no longer able to join in the exam.<\/p>\n
She defined that considering the start of the 2022 educational yr, the time changed into too quick for the candidates to put in writing the WASSCE in may also\/June.<\/p>\n
The time changed into too short and the candidates might also need to now not have properly organized for the exam and so the Ministry of training asked that or now not it is achieved for them in August and September 2022.<\/p>\n
\u201cFollowing from that, Ghanaian applicants will write a Ghana-only model of the WASSCE for faculty applicants, beginning from August 1 and completing on September 27,\u201d she defined.<\/p>\n
Caution<\/p>\n
Mrs Addy-Lamptey positioned that rogue internet site operators and scammers had already acquired snapshots of beyond query papers for WASSCE 2022 administered inside the special member global locations and had been using those snapshots to sell it their net web sites.<\/p>\n
\u201ca few have asked applicants to sign in via paying a rate. We need to inform our publics that the exam being done has absolutely one in every of a type questions\/parallel questions from the papers written in the unique member international locations,\u201d she emphasized.<\/p>\n
The pinnacle of the national office of WAEC, however, introduced that the questions may want to in truth be of the equal hassle diploma and gave an guarantee that \u201call publish-examination arrangements might be handled the world over\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cfor instance, the same old solving and Grading Awards conferences might also need to have representatives from the 5 member nations,\u201d she described.<\/p>\n
Education<\/p>\n
A standard of 422,883 applicants from 977 faculties registered for the WASSCE after the extended last date of April 8, 2022.<\/p>\n
The entry determine covered seventy candidates with visual impairment, fabricated from 39 person men and 33 ladies, similarly to 14 candidates with hearing impairment.<\/p>\n
Mrs Addy-Lamptey defined that 60 topics, comprising four middle and fifty six electives, is probably administered to capability candidates.<\/p>\n
\u201cin addition to the four middle topics that every one candidates write, candidates have the option to select up to a maximum of 4 non-obligatory subjects from the seven programmes furnished in senior excessive schools,\u201d she further explained.<\/p>\n
Depots<\/p>\n
She described that the council utilised dedicated centers (depots) for the storage of personal substances inside the numerous groups, and gave an guarantee that \u201csuch facilities have been inspected and the vital fortification and refurbishment works are being completed to make sure that they meet the safety necessities\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis year, the type of depots has been improved to lessen the time taken in shifting the question papers from the depots to the exam centres, pushing the depots toward the examination centres,\u201d she disclosed to the daily photo.<\/p>\n
Touch hours<\/p>\n
The Director-standard of the Ghana Educative carrier (GES), Professor Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa, moreover in an interview, defined that the u . S . Was doing a period of restoration getting to know and couldn’t, consequently, pass lower back to the can also\/June timetable right now.<\/p>\n
He defined that Ghana end up unique about touch hours for applicants and will, therefore, no longer go back to the can also\/June duration without delay, thinking about the time the 2022 academic twelve months started out.<\/p>\n
He described that once Ghana changed from the unmarried song to the double track, \u201cwe made fantastic that we did not lose contact hours, so we calculated the range of contact hours that had to be accomplished within a given yr\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, for a given 365 days, the calculation turn out to be that we had been going to do 1,134 contact hours. So right now after the COVID-19, what we did end up that we had to go lower returned to do that calculation, and while we ran the numbers, we realised that the earliest time we must do the examination once more have become a while in August and September,\u201d he defined.<\/p>\n
\u201chowever, the alternative international locations, irrespective of some thing, determined to move earlier folks. They reopened faculties a whole lot in advance than February, and immediately after the examination in 2021, they reversed to the vintage device. However we used our restoration duration after which our touch hours to do our calculation,\u201d Prof. Opoku-Amankwa stated.<\/p>\n
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