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WASSCE 2024: WAEC Releases Results After Delay, Cancels Subject Results Of Over 4,000 Candidates
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WASSCE 2024: WAEC Releases Results After Delay, Cancels Subject Results Of Over 4,000 Candidates

by  Delali Adogla-Bessa 2 min read
  • WAEC has released the 2024 WASSCE provisional results after a delay brought about by government indebtedness
  • Cheating during the exam led to the cancellation of the subject results of 4,108 candidates
  • Some results of 781 students and the entire results of 209 candidates have been withheld for various suspected offences

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The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has finally released the 2024 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) provisional results after a delay caused by government debt to the council.

Malpractices during the exam led to the cancellation of the subject results of 4,108 candidates.

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WAEC releases provisional 2024 WASSCE results for school candidates. Source: Ministry of Education GH
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They were found to have used foreign materials, such as prepared notes, textbooks, and printed material, in the examination halls.

The results of 483 candidates were cancelled for possession of mobile phones in the examination halls.

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Subject results of 781 and the full results of 209 candidates have been withheld for various suspected offences, while the results of candidates from 319 schools have been withheld for alleged collusion.

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WAEC noted in a statement that these cases are still under investigation.

A total of 460,611 candidates, 212,954 males and 247,657 females from 1,003 schools, sat for the examinations.

There was some controversy over the release of the results because of the government's indebtedness.

Though the WASSCE results were supposed to be released between December 9, 2024, and December 15, 2024, WAEC had not started marking the objectives after this deadline.

The objective cards were expected to be scanned in November. The council had said it needed the money owed to it to repair the faulty scanners.

Going into December 2024, WAEC was owed GH¢118 million by the government, which hampered its operations.

WAEC friction with the Education Ministry

YEN.com.gh reported that WAEC took issue with the Education Ministry after the sector minister, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, said the WASSCE results would be released by December 29, 2024.

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After Adutwum's claim on December 23, WAEC’s Head of Public Relations, John Kapi, retorted that only 45% of the work had been completed amid longstanding financial challenges.

There were also contentions about how much had been released to settle the debts to WAEC.

Proofread by Samuel Gitonga, Copy Editor at YEN.com.gh

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Delali Adogla-Bessa (Current Affairs Editor) Delali Adogla-Bessa is a Current Affairs Editor with YEN.com.gh. Delali previously worked as a freelance journalist in Ghana and has over seven years of experience in media, primarily with Citi FM, Equal Times, Ubuntu Times. Delali also volunteers with the Ghana Institute of Language Literacy and Bible Translation, where he documents efforts to preserve local languages. He graduated from the University of Ghana in 2014 with a BA in Information Studies. Email: delali.adogla-bessa@yen.com.gh.

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