The theoretical aspect of the 2025 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE), organised by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), commences today, Wednesday, August 20, 2025.
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) says it has so far received “enough funds” from the government for the examination, and has since dispatched all the depot keepers, including materials, to their respective centres.
“As for funds, I think that we are in a comfortable position right now,” the Head of Public Affairs of WAEC, John Kapi, told the Daily Graphic on Monday, August 18, adding that “we have dispatched all the depot keepers, all the materials for the centres.”
In all, 65 subjects will be taken by candidates, with each candidate writing eight subjects on average. This year’s exercise features 461,640 candidates from qualified senior high and technical schools across the country.
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.
The 2025 WASSCE also marks the fourth cohort of Ghanaian students taking the Ghana-only version of the examination.
This arrangement has remained in place since the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 which prompted a shift in the academic calendar from 2021.
Other member countries of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) which include Nigeria, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and The Gambia, have since reverted to the traditional May/June WASSCE schedule.
On August 5, 2025, the practicals of the WASSCE for School Candidates took off smoothly in senior high and technical schools across the country.
It involved candidates undertaking projects they had been assigned to carry out as part of the examination, with the first essay and objective papers for Picture Making expected to have been written at 1 p.m. yesterday.
“We have also dispatched the first batch of question papers. We normally dispatch the question papers in batches,” Mr Kapi said.
“So, the first batch has been dispatched,” he added
The examination will be conducted in about 701 examination centres across the country.
Meanwhile, the Deputy Minister of Education, Dr. Clement Abass Apaak, has urged candidates to avoid examination malpractice, cautioning both teaching and non-teaching staff against aiding students to cheat.
2025 WASSCE: Deputy Education Minister warns teaching, non-teaching staff against aiding malpractice
