Audio By Carbonatix
The 2025 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) officially started today, Wednesday, August 20, with 461,640 candidates across the country sitting for the Oral English paper.
The candidates comprise 207,381 males and 254,259 females, reflecting a slight increase of 1,029 candidates compared to the 460,611 who sat for the examination last year.
This year’s exams follow a phased schedule, with the practical papers starting earlier on August 4. The main written papers, however, commenced today.
It also marks the fourth year that Ghanaian students are writing the “Ghana Only” version of WASSCE, introduced to give the country full control over the examination calendar.
In previous years, candidates from other West African countries such as Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Liberia and The Gambia sat the exams together with Ghana. However, following disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Ghana adopted a “Ghana Only” timetable.
Latest Stories
-
Brent oil rises 7% on report US considering military options to break Iran deadlock
15 minutes -
Minority cries ‘political persecution’ over arrest of Maxwell Kofi Jumah
21 minutes -
Court premises declared crime scene as Judicial Service relocates Sunyani Circuit, Magistrate Courts
22 minutes -
Ghana’s currency volatility linked to extractive sector leakages – Joe Jackson
25 minutes -
Body of drowned 20-year-old water tanker attendant retrieved from quarry pit at Mpobi
28 minutes -
GNAT kicks against 7,000 teacher recruitment, demands increase
31 minutes -
Oti MDCEs sign 24-hour economy contracts
35 minutes -
GNFS pushes for prosecutorial powers amid rising attacks on firefighters
39 minutes -
Court grants substituted service in defamation suit against Health Minister
42 minutes -
Manso Kaniago miners protest extortion by ‘fake’ security operatives
45 minutes -
Probe launched into alleged maternal death at Kasoa Hospital
48 minutes -
No Ghanaian killed in xenophobic attacks – Envoy debunks viral death claims
50 minutes -
Be assertive about your rights – Women and girls with disabilities urged
51 minutes -
Ho Assembly exceeds first-quarter IGF target, records rise in DACF releases
54 minutes -
NDC Accra Zongo Caucus calls for postponement of branch elections
57 minutes