The executive director of Educate Africa also an Educationist, Mr. Emmanuel Boadi has said that, the plans by the West Africa Examination Council (WAEC) to serialize some subjects in 2023 WASSCE is a step in the right direction, but won’t materialized if the working conditions are not improved.
Speaking to Ohene Kinnah on Plan B FM late afternoon show EBAANOSEN, Mr. Boadi stressed that serializing some subjects will not help solve the examination malpractice during the examination while the invigilators are not well catered for.
“If invigilators are not well paid, they may be compromised by some school proprietors and headmasters to allow their candidate to cheat or bring in foreign materials into the exams hall but if they are well paid they won’t conspire with proprietors and headmasters to allow the students cheat during examination.”
The West African Examination Council (WAEC) has confirmed that it will serialize some selected questions in the 2023 West African Senior High School Certificate Examination (WASSCE).
The move according to the council is to curb exam malpractices.
The serialization process requires that all candidates in the same hall receive the same question but with different question numbers.
Addressing the media, the Head of Public Affairs at the Council, John Kapi says the chosen subjects will be serialized because those subjects can’t be compromised.
“Serialisation is not anything that is landing from space. Besides nothing has changed about the structure of the questions. It is just that we have serialized some of them. It is our trade secret, and we want to maintain that. We are not unduly punishing anybody, it is the same question just that there is some serialization. There are some of these papers that are high stake and so for those high stake papers we would want to serialize them.”
“Secondly it is a very expensive venture to get into, it is time-consuming and all of that. And so we concentrate more on the high stake papers and then there are a few of them that we consider as low risk, and so we don’t serialize those,” he said.
A total of 447,204 candidates drawn from 975 schools are expected to sit for this year’s WASSCE.
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