The West African Examination Council (WAEC) has attributed the abysmal performance of candidates who sat for the 2025 West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (WASSCE) partly to the stringent measures put in place to stem malpractices in the exams.
According Madam Lilian Frimpomaa, the Bono Regional Controller of the WAEC, most of the candidates could not find their way out to engage in examination malpractices due to the drastic measures.
The WAEC released provisional results of the candidates with 220,008 of them failing mathematics, 131,097 failing English Language, 161,606 students failing Integrated Science and 196,727 candidates failing Social Studies.
Speaking in an interview with the Sompa News' Agyemang Opambour in Sunyani, Mad Frimpong cited that CCTV cameras were installed at some of the examination centers in the region, adding that: “Our monitoring team also intensified monitoring”.
She said prior to the commencement of the WASSCE, the WAEC also engaged on extensive meeting with school heads and stakeholders and devised realistic strategies to tackle all forms of malpractices in the examination.
Meanwhile, cross section of the public in the Sunyani municipality have attributed the poor performance of the candidates partly to the implementation of the double track system.
They called also called on the relevant authorities to do more of stem growing examination malpractices resulting to the cancellation of the papers.
Mr Nii Botey, a resident noted that students could not have enough time to learn due to double track system.

Mr Seid Mubarak, another resident also expressed concern about examination malpractices and called for punitive measures against WAEC officials who aided schools in examination malpractices.
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