ADEPA JOSEPH (AGENDA)

   In a press release signed by Mrs Agnes Teye -Cudjoe, head of national office  of the West African Examination Council, on July 13th, The council has announced the release of the 2018 West African Senior School Certificate Examination  WASSCE results. However, the results of 26,434 has been withheld pending investigation into allerged malpractices during and after the exam. She said the withheld results will be released as soon as investigation is completed, candidates who are found guilty will have their results totally cancelled. It was further stated that the results will soon be dispatched to the school and candidates are to contact their school heads for their results. Otherwise they can access their results online at   ghana.waecdirect.org                       STATISTICS A total of 316,999 candidates from 946 public and private senior hig...

                                                        The most frequently asked questions among SHS graduates as well as students is on what basis does WAEC transform their exam scores into grades. WAEC grades candidates subject by subject ranging from A1 to F9 with grade A1 interpreted as Excellent  and the best grade a candidate can ever get in the WASSCE examination.     Followed by B2 and B3 which are interpreted as Very good and Good respectively. The 'C' range i.e C4, C5 and C6 are interpreted as credit passes. D7 and E8 are interpreted as passes and the last and the lowest grade F9 interpreted as failure. With the above interpretation, one would ask how are the figures transformed into letters? ANSWER . So after the marking of the WASSCE,  the raw scores obtained in all the sections of the s...