Are WASSCE scripts from top schools marked the same as those from deprived schools?
Yes. The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) trains all examiners nationwide to use the West African Senior School Certificate Examination marking schemes in the same way during the script marking process.
To ensure a fair marking of candidates papers, the scripts are allocated randomly to the examiners with no school name of the docket containing the answer sheet or answer booklets of the prospective candidates.
Furthermore, scripts are swapped from one region to another. This means WASSCE papers from the Ashanti Region are sent to maybe Northern Region and vice versa for the other regions.
Examiners who teach in deprived schools may thus mark papers from top schools and vice versa. But, the scripts must be marked according to the agreed standard using the marking schemes and under the surveillance of Chief Examiners and Team Leaders.
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A WAEC official in an interview monitored by Georgeweb.org disclosed the results of candidates who sat for the 2020 WASSCE for School Candidates will be released within 61 days after the conduct of the last paper.
Source: Georgeweb.org
Please education nowadays is becoming difficult for some students to study.
The information reaching us is that the top schools Wace papers are marked different from those at the deprive. So please is it true.
Hello Mustapha, according to WAEC such claim is false
Actually it is not fair to have a common marking scheme for all schools. Even though WAEC is trying to ensure fairness, but fairness has been lost right at the onset of which school a candidate finds himself on admission, particularly into the deprived and less privilege schools. I suggest that WAEC need to check this anomaly, in determining marking schemes the different categories of schools that we have. That would rather ensure fairness to all to all students instead.
Actually it is not fair to have a common marking scheme for all schools. Even though WAEC is trying to ensure fairness, but fairness has been lost right at the onset of which school a candidate finds himself on admission, particularly into the deprived and less privilege schools. I suggest that WAEC need to check this anomaly, in determining marking schemes for different categories of schools that we have. That would rather ensure fairness to all students instead of the