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...

    The Adentan Based West Africa Senior High School was the only school in Greater Accra to reach the finals of the 2018 national science and Maths quiz; a competition organized by primetime productions with the aim of encouraging the study of science and maths in Ghana and also to provide a healthy academic competition among senior high schools in ghana. Represented by Akoh Sahene and Tade Abdul Hameed, West Africa SHS put up an impressive performance giving their opponents Adisadel college and the Kwahu based St Peter's SHS a very tough contest though it was their first time to reach the grand finale in this prestigious competition. At the beginning of the contest, Adisadel collage; the four times champions and the 2017 second runner-up of the competition was at a comfortable lead with 24 points at the end of round one leaving St Peter's and West Africa SHS 22 and 17 points respectively. The contest become more tougher and more interesting at the round 4 where the ...

The West African Senior School Certificate Examination ( WASSCE) for 2018 school candidates is expected to be released in the first or second week of July. For candidates who cannot wait until the results are being deployed to their respective schools, you can access your results online in a few easy steps. Firstly, a candidate who want to access his/her results online must obtain a WAEC scratch card also known as results checker in order to access the results portal. The scratch card can be purchased from WAEC's website electronically using your Master card, visa card or  Airtel money. You would have to fill the E payment form and provide an active email address to which the card details (pin and serial number) will be sent to You can also purchase the scratch card at any WAEC office as well as all internet cafe. After the scratch card has been obtained, log on to WAEC's website at https://ghana.waecdirect.org using your phone or PC, fill in your index number, exam...

                                                           Getting an excellent WASSCE results has been the dream as well as a worry for many people who wish to attain a higher academic height. But there is a good news, all the techniques you need to make a onetime yet an excellent WASSCE grades has been compiled in this E BOOK Compiled by reputable academicians, educationists and psychologist, this book will teach you the trick in passing your exam without too much learning. It also teaches you cognitive skills that will help you store information in your long-term memory.                  CLICK HERE to download.

 The Basic Education Certificate Examination is an exam conducted by WAEC to student who has successfully completed the nine years Basic education course in Ghana, it serves as a basics for the placement of student into second cycle institutions and also for certification. As a result of the free Secondary education introduced by the Government of Ghana, the number if candidates who sat for this year's Examination recorded a significant increase over the years before. This year over 500,000 candidates sat for the examination at 546 centers across the country. The exam has come to a successful end today meaning over 500,000 people has graduated from the basic school today. It is expected that not less than 80% of these graduate will be enrolled into the various second cycle institutions with a full scholarship provided by the government.  As usual, the young graduates expressed their excitement for bringing the nine years journey to a successful end, they added t...

The subject Mathematics has been one of the evils of students in Ghana. According to WAEC, less than 50% of student who sat for the WASSCE and BECE exams are not able to pass their Mathematics papers. I have gotten some guidelines that can help you pass Mathematics easily without hustle. Read ahead: Read over tomorrows Mathematics lessons today. Get a general idea about the new formula in advance, before the teacher covers them in class. Practice: Math teachers do not give you home work because they are nasty creatures. They do it because they know repetition is a very important aspect of learning. If you practice a new skill,  the connection between neurons (nerve cells) in your brain are strengthened. But if you don't practice them, the weak bonds are broken Use memory technique: Most people are capable of learning list of unrelated number or words, as long as they use the right technique. Such technique can be applied to the learning of fo...