Youth alliance for development wishes 2015 WASSCE candidates well

Yet again, it is time for final year students across the country and some part of the continent to give account of their three years experience in Senior High School through the West African Examination Council (WAEC) examination. We at Youth Alliance for Development cease this opportunity to wish all students who are sitting for this year’s examination good luck.
We humbly appeal to all candidates to strictly adhere to the rubrics in the conduction of the examination throughout the period. We again call on candidates to desist from unacceptable conduct that may have the tendency of bringing the entire credibility of the examination into disrepute and dashing the hopes of parents who have invested a lot in their education.
We urge the West African Examination Council (WAEC), the Ghana Education Service (GES) and the security agencies to as a matter of urgency institute stringent measures to control leakage of examination questions which has a potential of denting the image of the entire exercise. The revelation by WAEC that examination malpractice is on ascendancy recently should be a source of worry for all stakeholders in the educational industry.
Whilst we believe that there must be standards on which people are admitted into tertiary institutions, the current system where D7 is not accepted in most tertiary institutions has made examination in the country a life and death matter. Students perceive examination as do or die affair and would do anything possible to survive hence the increase in malpractices.
We call on the National Accreditation Board to critically take a second look at the policy on entry into tertiary institutions especially those who have a problem with a subject that has no direct bearing on the programme they want to offer.
When students are in School they are given every single marked script from all examinations conducted. The reason is for them to learn from their mistakes and do corrections.
Why can’t the same principle be applied to the WASSCE ?
We believe that such a move will help candidates to learn from their mistakes and aids in the preparation for a re sit exams.
We therefore appeal to WAEC and GES to consider returning students marked scripts to their schools so they can go for them and keep as references. Once again we say best wishes to all candidates of 2015 WASSCE.
Thank You
Ali Tanti Robert
(Director) 0246486740/0206125181 Youth Alliance for Development is a registered youth oriented NGO in Obuasi with the sole aim of empowering young people to contribute meaningfully to the development aspirations of Ghana.