Best Results In 9 Years- GES On 2023 WASSCE
The Ghana Education Service (GES) has congratulated the 2023 West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) candidates, noting that they achieved the highest scores in nine years.
In a social media post on Wednesday, two days after the release of the results, the Service commended teachers, parents and its staff for the “excellent” work done.
“Congratulations to all 2023 WASSCE candidates! You’ve given us the best results in nine (9) years…Together, we achieved this historic feat!”
Data from WAEC showed that 73.11% of candidates scored between A1 and C6 in English language, 62.23% in Mathematics, 66.82% in Integrated Science and 76.67% in Social Studies.
However, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Builsa South Constituency and Deputy Ranking Member, Education Committee, Hon Clement Apaak hold that it would be erroneous for WASSCE results under the Akufo-Addo-led administration to be compared to past ones.
He notes that Ghanaian WASSCE candidates have since 2020 sat a customized WASSCE, different from what other WASSCE-sitting nations take.
“It is dishonest on the part of anyone to compare results of Ghanaian students who wrote the regional level WASSCE before 2020, to those who wrote the customised Ghana WASSCE or GHASSCE, from 2020 to the present. At best, we can only compare the results of WASSCE [GHASSCE] 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023, as WAEC has rightly done in its press release announcing the 2023 results.”
“Equally, the performance of Ghanaian students from 2020 to the present cannot be compared to their peers in the other WAEC member nations who still write the traditional regional level examination. This explains why, unlike the period before 2020, no Ghanaian student has won the prestigious West African Examination Council international excellence award.”
Editorialist and teacher, Samoa Mensa, agrees that the results are not the true reflection of the senior high school (SHS) education in Ghana. He asserted that the results are being sponsored by the WASSCE malpractices financed by power brokers.
