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The academic school-leaving qualification awarded upon successful completion of the exams is the West African Senior School Certificate. The WASSCE tests four core subjects—English, mathematics, integrated science, social studies, and three or four elective subjects.
WAEC Headquarters, Abuja WAEC office, Ogba, Lagos. The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) is an examination board established by law to determine the examinations required in the public interest in the English-speaking West African countries, to conduct the examinations and to award certificates comparable to those of equivalent examining authorities internationally. [1]
Every year, the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board conducts an examination that determines if a student will be admitted to higher education. All of these candidates must have obtained the West Africa School Certificate, now West African Examinations Council, WAEC, or its equivalent National Examination Council (Nigeria), NECO.
The examination is conducted for international candidates who wish to be admitted into any Nigerian tertiary institution by the West African Examination Council (WAEC). After the conduct of the year's examination, the board sits and deliberates on the cut-off mark for universities, polytechnics, colleges of education and 'monotechniques'.
In South Africa, the equivalent nowadays is the National Senior Certificate however it was previously or is more commonly known as the Matriculation Certificate. In Gambia, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone, the equivalent is the West African Senior School Certificate.
The only programme that the school does not offer is Technical Programme. In 2001, Out of the total number of 500 candidates the school presented for the West African Senior High School Certificate Examination , 498 passed in five or more subjects out of 499 students who took the examination. The highest-performing student scored 7 A1s and a B2 ...
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Reverend John Ntim Fordjour, the Deputy Education Minister, revealed that the government has disbursed GH¢40 million to the West African Examination Council (WAEC) to facilitate the seamless organization of the 2023 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) and the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE).