The 2025 West African Senior College Certificates Examination (WASSCE) written papers formally begin immediately, Wednesday, August 20, 2025, with a complete of 461,640 candidates sitting throughout Ghana.
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) confirmed that the federal government has launched ample funds to help the conduct of the exams. All depot keepers and examination supplies have been dispatched to their centres to make sure clean operations.
John Kapi, WAEC’s Head of Public Affairs, instructed Graphic On-line on Monday, August 18.
We’re in a cushty place proper now. All depot keepers and supplies have been dispatched to the centres.
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This yr’s candidates embody 207,381 males and 254,259 females, reflecting a slight enhance from the 460,611 college students who sat in 2024. On common, every scholar will write eight topics out of 65 accessible.
The 2025 version marks the fourth batch of Ghanaian college students taking the Ghana-only WASSCE, launched in 2021 after the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the educational calendar.
In the meantime, WAEC member states equivalent to Nigeria, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and The Gambia have since reverted to the normal Could/June schedule.
The examination course of began earlier with sensible assessments on August 5, 2025, which have been carried out efficiently in senior excessive and technical colleges nationwide. The primary written paper, Image Making (Essay and Goal), was taken on Tuesday afternoon.
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WAEC additional indicated that the primary batch of query papers had been distributed, with subsequent dispatches to observe in levels.
The written exams might be performed in about 701 centres nationwide.
In the meantime, Deputy Minister of Training Dr Clement Abass Apaak has suggested candidates to keep away from examination malpractice and cautioned each instructing and non-teaching workers towards aiding college students to cheat.
