Final year students of Senior High Schools (SHS) across the country begin written papers of the West Africa Senior Schools Certificate Examinations(WASSCE)today.This year’s examination has the largest number of students due to the two batches of third and fourth year students.The situation is as a result of the last batch of the four-year SHS programme under the 2007 Educational reform Policy and the first batch of the three-year SHS programme,following the reversal of the four-year programme to a three duration in 2010.In all, 409,754 candidates, consisting of 220,866 males and 188,881 females, from 724 public and private Senior High Schools are expected to write the examinations.It will be written simultaneously in four other English-speaking West African countries including Nigeria, Liberia, Gambia and Sierra Leone.