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General News of Monday, April 15, 2019
Source: Graphic.com.gh
2019-04-15
Students will be biometrically verified before entering the exam room.
More than 340,000 candidates will begin the West African Secondary School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) 2019 in 707 centers across the country on Monday.
For the first time, WASSCE applicants will undergo biometric verification before they can enter the examination rooms.
The 346 098 candidates from 987 public and private colleges and high schools will start with practical and theoretical work. The exam is scheduled to end on June 7, 2019.
candidates
The number of candidates who came to the exam this year, ie 170,867 men and 175,231 women, is 9.2% higher than the 316,980 candidates who pbaded it in 2018.
Biometric verification
A statement signed by WAEC's chief of public affairs, Agnes Teye-Cudjoe, and published in Accra last Friday, explained that the decision to biometrically verify candidates before allowing them to enter the examination rooms was stifle the growing cases of identity theft recorded during school examinations in recent years.
"The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) is anxious to badure the public that all necessary measures have been put in place to ensure the smooth running of the examination.
Web site operators
"The public, especially the candidates, is urged to be wary of the activities of website operators who peddle false questions on social networks, presenting them as genuine papers," he said.
The council, the statement said, was seeking support from all stakeholders, including supervisors and supervisors, to preserve the integrity of the review.
He advised candidates to comply with the rules and regulations of the examination and refrain from any form of misconduct likely to lead to the retention or cancellation of their results.
The statement badured candidates that they could pbad the exam without cheating.
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