Wassce Manual 1
Wassce Manual 1
ACCRA
Please read these instructions carefully before proceeding to register for the examination.
Candidates are required to capture their fingerprints at designated internet cafés prior to the
registration.
1. REGISTRATION OF CANDIDATES
NOTE: THAT YOUR REGISTRATION IS NOT VALID UNTIL YOU PAY THE
REQUISITE FEE.
The examination is scheduled to start in 31st October and end on 20th December. The
Timetable may be accessed by downloading it from the registration interface. Candidates
are advised to study the Timetable carefully in order to avoid a clash of subjects.
3. SUBMISSION OF ENTRIES
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4. CONTACT DETAILS
You may contact any of the Council’s Offices in the list below for further information:
5. INDEX NUMBER
Your Index Number will be generated by the Office; you may access it online by mid
October using your Invoice Number.
6. CANDIDATE’S NAME
(1) SURNAME should be entered first, followed by the FIRST NAME and then
OTHER NAME (if any).
(2) Full name should not exceed forty (40) characters.
O B I R I - Y E B O A H J O N A T H A N K
(3) Candidates with hyphenated names should ensure that the hyphen is appropriately
indicated.
NB: Candidate’s surname and first name should always be entered in full.
7. DATE OF BIRTH
Candidates should ensure that their correct date of birth is entered. Note that, requests for
correction/amendment of date of birth after release of results WILL not be permitted.
Candidates should ensure that they provide accurate and active e-mail addresses and
telephone numbers. The Council will correspond with candidates via the e-mail or
telephone numbers provided.
Candidates are to personally ensure that their correct photographs are uploaded.
Requests for change of photograph after release of results WILL not be permitted.
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THE WEST AFRICAN EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL (WAEC) WILL NOT BEAR
THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY WRONG DATA CAPTURED.
NB: The Council reserves the right to re-direct candidates to other centres if there are
not enough entries for any particular centre or if there are more candidates at a
centre than can be accommodated there.
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11. EXAMINATION SUBJECTS
You are required to select the subjects you wish to register for. Please note that you are
allowed a maximum of four core subjects and four elective subjects.
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(3) Orals/Practicals/Project Work
2. Candidates offering subjects under the Technical and Vocational programmes and Music will
write the actual practical tests in those subjects.
3. Candidates offering Foods and Nutrition, Clothing and Textiles, Music and Oral French will
be notified of the actual dates and time of the Practical/Oral through their mobile phones using
Short Message Service (SMS).
Barred candidates who register for the examination before the expiration of their sanction will
have their registration annulled and fees paid shall be forfeited.
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14. REGISTRATION FEES
Candidates who offer subjects with oral/practical/project work component will pay
additional fees as follows:
(4) Penalties
Entries made after the normal registration period will attract the following:
(a) Late Entry: One and half (1½) times the total entry fee;
(b) Substitution of Subject(s): One and half (1½) times the subject(s) fee indicated
in 15(1) and 15(2) above;
(c) Addition of Subject(s): Twice the subject(s) fee indicated in 15(1) and 15(2)
above;
(d) Correction of name, date of birth, address, or signature: GH¢200.00.
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15. LIST OF DESIGNATED BANKS
Candidates may pay their registration fees at any branch of the following banks:
The registration shall become valid only after the requisite fee has been paid and the
appropriate receipt obtained by the candidate at the bank.
The West African Examinations Council, (WAEC), does NOT undertake to refund fees paid
for its services. However, if notice of withdrawal of candidature is received early,
consideration may be given for the refund of fee paid, solely at the discretion of the Council.
Requests for remarking received 60 days after the release of final results would not be
considered. Any candidate who makes a request for remarking will be required to pay the
appropriate fee.
Candidates with special assessment needs (example: physically challenged, visually impaired
and hearing impaired) who are duly registered for the examination should:
Certificates would be issued to candidates upon request after release of results. Requests for
Addition and Rearrangement of names after printing of certificate would not be
permitted.
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THE WEST AFRICAN EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL, ACCRA
WEST AFRICAN SENIOR SCHOOL CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION FOR PRIVATE
CANDIDATES
DIRECTIONS TO CANDIDATES
1. You are expected to be seated 30 minutes before the start of a paper. Candidates, who report
after work has started, would not be admitted into the examination hall.
2. If you arrive after the start of the paper, you will not be allowed to write the examination. A
candidate is deemed to be late after the Supervisor has issued the order to start work.
4. Read very carefully the general directions given at the front cover page of the question
paper. You will not gain extra marks if you answer more than the number of questions
you are required to answer. Much time may be wasted in writing down information not
asked for.
7. If you decide to leave the examination room before the end of the period allotted to the paper,
you must not take your question paper away with you; you must hand it over with your script
to the Supervisor. You may, however, return at the end of the test to collect your question
paper.
8. As soon as you are told that time is up, ensure that your answer booklet has your full name
and index number written on it. Wait until your script has been collected before you leave the
examination hall.
CAUTION
9. Candidates whose examination results have been cancelled for resorting to dishonest means
may be refused re-entry to future examinations.
10. Candidates must ensure that there are no marks or inscriptions on their Admission Notices.
11. It is the responsibility of candidates to check inside and around their desks for notes, books,
pieces of paper or any foreign materials before sitting at their desks to write the paper.
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12. Under no circumstances should any candidate take a Mobile Phone/Smart watch or any
electronic communication devices into the examination room. The punishment for
bringing any such gadget into the examination room is the cancellation of the
candidate’s entire results.
13. Candidates should not take any used or unused answer booklets out of the Examination Room.
Candidates disregarding this caution would be severely punished.
14. Candidates guilty of disorderly conduct or causing disturbance in or near the Examination
Room are liable to be expelled from the examination.
15. The Council reserves the right to cancel the results of candidates if it believes that they
have been involved in irregularities before, during or after the examination.
16. It is a criminal offence punishable by law to engage in any examination malpractice (WAEC
Law, Act 719 (2006)). You are hereby requested to comport yourself strictly in accordance
with the regulations bearing in mind that in addition to having your examination results
cancelled you may be prosecuted in court.
17. Do not use correcting fluid to clean name or index number. The use of correcting fluid (tipex)
is not allowed.
18. No amendment of date of birth will be allowed after release of results. All requests for
amendment of any information on bio-data will only be considered during the registration and
before the conduct of the examination. Under no circumstance, will Council consider
correction of error of any kind after certificates have been printed.
19. You must use only the pencils supplied by WAEC. You are required to bring a pencil
sharpener, an eraser and a ruler.
20. You must write your full index number and name on the question paper.
21. The answer sheets are pre-printed with candidates’ names, index numbers and test codes.
You should make sure that you have the correct answer sheet which bears your own index
number and name. You are required to re-shade the machine shading of your index number
and test code within the limits of the spaces provided.
22. All index numbers and answers must be shaded in pencil. Biros, ball pens or Fountain pens
must NOT be used under any circumstance to shade index numbers and answers. The scoring
machine can only read pencil marks; it is therefore necessary that you use only PENCIL in
shading your index number and answers.
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23. To record your index number, you must shade carefully the spaces provided for index
number. An example has been given on the cover of each question paper and this must be
closely followed. The shading should cover the full width and length of the response position.
The objective answer sheets are pre-printed with candidates’ names and index numbers;
Note that the answer space has been shaded completely; note also that the shading does not
continue beyond the two lines. Failure to shade the answer space as shown may result in loss
of marks. “No mark should extend more than one-sixteenth of an inch beyond the edges or
ends of the marked positions”.
25. You must shade ONE AND ONLY ONE answer-space for each question. Candidates should
note that marking two responses to one question automatically denies them any score for the
question. Therefore if you shade an answer-space in error, erase the wrong shading
completely and shade the correct answer-space. If a candidate makes a poor erasure and
substitutes a new answer, there is the danger that the computer will read the erasure as a mark
and give no score.
26. Under NO circumstance must the objective answer sheet be folded or crumpled or damaged.
The computer will reject such answer sheets.
27. Candidates are further asked to note that since the West African Examinations Council
processes over three million answer sheets per year, it is quite impossible for each one to be
given individual human scrutiny. It is, therefore, the clear responsibility of the candidate to
complete his Objective Answer Sheet exactly as described in these instructions.
28. When question papers are given out, no candidate should start work before the order to start is
given. Furthermore, when the order “stop work!” is given, candidates should immediately put
down their pens or pencils. Any candidate found working before the order is given to start
work or order to stop work is given, will be deemed/considered as having committed an
irregularity and will be penalized accordingly.
29. Candidates must present their Admission Notices at the Centre assigned to them. Candidates
who do not present their Admission Notices will not be allowed to write the examination.
30. Candidates must write the examination only at centres assigned to them by WAEC.
Candidates who write the examination at centres not assigned them will not get their
result(s) processed.
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SPECIAL WARNING ON MOBILE PHONES
31. Under no circumstance should mobile phones be brought into the examination hall.
Where a candidate is found with a mobile phone or any other electronic communication
device in the examination hall, the entire results of the candidate shall be withheld
pending the cancellation of his/her entire results by the appropriate Committee of
Council.
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THE WEST AFRICAN EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL
(1) Where a candidate is found in the examination hall with notes, textbooks, prepared
materials or any other printed materials, the candidate’s entire results in the
examination shall be withheld pending the cancellation of result of the subject
involved by the appropriate Committee of Council.
(2) Where a candidate is found in the examination hall with a blank piece of paper or any
other material not covered under 1(1) above, (except mobile phone or any electronic
communication device) the entire results of the candidate shall be withheld pending
the cancellation of the subject involved by the appointment committee of Council.
(3) Where a candidate is found with a programmable calculator in the examination hall,
the entire results of the candidate shall be withheld pending the cancellation of the
result of the subject involved.
(4) Where a candidate is found with a mobile phone or any other electronic
communication device in the examination hall, the entire results of the candidate shall
be withheld pending the cancellation of his/her entire results by the appropriate
Committee of Council.
(1) Where a candidate is apprehended for offence(s) such as those listed below inside or
outside the examination hall, the candidate’s result in the entire examination shall be
withheld pending cancellation of the entire results by the appropriate Committee of
Council:
(2) Where the person giving help is not a candidate for the examination in session but a
prospective candidate, he/she shall be barred from taking any examination conducted by
the Council for one year and will also be reported to the appropriate authority for
disciplinary action to be taken against him/her. In addition to the above action, the
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candidate’s entire results shall be withheld pending cancellation by the appropriate
Committee of Council.
(3) Where a candidate is apprehended for offence(s) such as those listed below inside or
outside the examination hall, the candidate’s entire results shall be withheld pending
cancellation of the results of the subject involved by the appropriate Committee of
Council:
(a) tearing part of the question paper or answer booklet during the examination.
(b) refusing to submit worked scripts to the Supervisor after the examination.
(d) other irregular activities within the immediate precincts of the examination hall before,
during or after the examination.
3. COLLUSION
(1) Where a candidate is caught during the examination passing notes for help from other
candidate(s), receiving or giving assistance, talking with or colluding in any manner with
another candidate(s), the entire results of the candidate(s)involved shall be withheld
pending the cancellation of his/her/their result(s’) for the subject involved by the
appropriate Committee of Council.
(2) Where cases of cheating are detected in script(s) and/or otherwise established in one
paper, the result of the subject for the candidate(s) involved shall be cancelled.
Where a candidate is proved to have cheated in more than one paper/subject, his/her
results in those subjects shall be cancelled.
4. IMPERSONATION
Where a person is caught impersonating a candidate, he/she shall be handed over to the police
for prosecution. The entire results of the person being impersonated and those of the
impersonator, if he/she is also a candidate for any WAEC examination, shall be withheld,
pending, cancellation by the appropriate Committee of Council.
Both the impersonator and the impersonated shall be barred from taking any examination
conducted by the Council for a period of not less than two years.
The Council also reserves the right to publish the names of persons so barred.
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5. LEAKAGE
(1) Where cases of leakage are established at a centre, the entire results of the candidates
offering the subject(s) involved at the centre shall be withheld.
(2) Candidates proved to have been involved in the leakage shall have their entire results
cancelled by the appropriate Committee of Council.
(3) Where it is established that the school authorities condoned, connived with, and/or
encouraged the leakage, the entire results of all candidates at the centre shall be withheld
pending cancellation of the entire results by the appropriate Committee of Council. In
addition, the centre shall be de-recognized in accordance with Rule 6 below.
6. MASS CHEATING
(1) Where more than half of the candidates for a subject at a centre are involved in collusion
or other forms of examination malpractice, this shall be regarded as mass cheating.
(2) Where mass cheating in a subject at a centre is established, the entire results of the
candidates at the centre shall be withheld pending cancellation of the results of the subject
for those confirmed to have cheated.
(3) Where mass cheating has been established the following shall apply:
In cases of schools, a report shall be made to the Ministry of Education or the appropriate
Board for disciplinary action to be taken against the person(s) responsible and the School
shall be de-recognized for a period not less than one year. In the case of public centres, the
Council shall take appropriate action.
(4) A school shall be de-recognized for a stated period if mass cheating is established in more
than one paper/subject.
(5) De-recognition implies that the school authority can no longer organize or manage the
school as a school centre, although the Council or its agent may use the physical facilities
of the school for the purpose of the examinations. The School may be allowed to present
its students as School Candidates, but the conduct of the whole examination (Practical and
theory) shall be the responsibility of Council.
The School concerned shall pay prescribed extra fees as extra for the supervision and
invigilation of the examination before the examination begins.
(6) Notwithstanding items (6) (3)(a) and 6(4) above, recognition may be restored upon a
written assurance from the administering authority of the school that the necessary
requirements have been met. Such assurance shall contain details of measures being taken
to ensure the satisfactory conduct of the examination, and those which shall be put in
place, subject to acceptance by the Council.
Recognition, however, will only be restored after at least one year of de-recognition.
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7. INSULT/ASSAULT ON SUPERVISORS/INVIGILATORS/INSPECTORS
(2) Where a candidate brings into the examination hall or uses anything including chemical
substance with intent to cause injury, temporary or permanent incapacity to any authorized
person in the examination hall including other candidates, the results of the candidate shall
be withheld pending the cancellation of the entire results by the appropriate Committee of
Council. In addition, the candidate shall be barred for a period of not less than two years
from taking any examination conducted by the Council.
(3) Contravention of Rule 7(1) and 7(2) shall not preclude legal action being taken against the
candidate by the Council or the individual(s) concerned.
(1) Where a candidate, in contravention of the instructions to candidates, writes with pencil
instead of ink or shades with ink instead of pencil, his/her entire results shall be withheld
pending cancellation of his/her results for the subject concerned by the appropriate Committee
of Council.
(2) Where a candidate fails to complete the cover page of his/her answer booklet as specified in
the instructions, his/her entire results shall be withheld pending cancellation of his/her results
for the subject concerned by the appropriate Committee of Council.
9. MULTIPLE REGISTRATIONS
Where a candidate is involved in multiple registrations for the same diet of examination,
his/her entire results shall be withheld pending cancellation of his/her entire results by the
appropriate Committee of the Council.
As a new cases arise which are covered by the above rules, the appropriate Committee of
Council shall take necessary action.
11. REVIEW
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