WASSCE 2023 Registration Manual

3.

DATES FOR THE EXAMINATION

The examination is scheduled to start on Monday, 30th July, 2023 and end on Wednesday,

3rd October, 2023. The Timetable can be accessed by clicking on the Timetable icon on the

registration website. Candidates are advised to study the Timetable carefully in order to

avoid a clash of subjects.

NOTE:

English Language 3 (Oral) is scheduled for Friday, 7th September, 2023

at 8.30a.m.

4.

ENTRY PERIOD AND SUBMISSION OF ENTRY DOCUMENTS

The schedule for the receipt of entries is as follows:

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B

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(1)

GREATER ACCRA

Amakom

Accra Central

Atonsu

Cantonments

Kwadaso

Dansoman

Old Tafo

Kaneshie

Santasi

Madina

Ashanti-Bekwai

Tema

Konongo

Dodowa

Ashanti-Mampong

Sege

Dunkwa-On- Offin

(2)

EASTERN

(6)

BRONG AHAFO

Koforidua

Sunyani

Akim Oda

Techiman

Akropong Akwapim

Goaso

Nkawkaw

Sampa

Nsawam

Atebubu

Somanya

(7)

VOLTA

(3)

CENTRAL

Ho

Cape Coast

Akatsi

Agona Swedru

Anloga

Winneba

Hohoe

Apam

Kete-Krachi

Kasoa

Assin Foso

(8)

NORTHERN

Tamale

(4)

WESTERN

Damongo

Sekondi

Yendi

Takoradi

Tarkwa

(9)

UPPER EAST

Sefwi Wiawso

Bolgatanga

Navrongo

Bawku

(10)

UPPER WEST

Wa

2.

Candidates who arrive late after the start of a paper will be required to give a satisfactory

reason to the Supervisor otherwise you will not be allowed to take the examination. You

will not be allowed to leave the examination room until at least 30 minutes after the start

of the examination.

3.

Write your full index number, your name, title of the paper and the date of examination

clearly on every answer booklet, supplementary sheet, loose maps, and any other paper

which you may use.

4.

If an examination paper for which you have not entered is handed to you or if the

question indicates that a map or other materials should also have been given out, but you

have not received them, raise your hand immediately and inform the Supervisor or

Invigilator when he comes to see you.

5.

Read the general directions that precede the questions very carefully. You will not gain

extra marks if you answer more than the number of questions you are asked to answer.

Much time may be wasted in writing down information not asked for.

6.

Write on both sides of the paper unless the instructions on the question paper prohibit this

and leave a margin at both right-hand and left-hand edges. Leave two lines between

answers where these are sub-sections to the same question. Begin the answer to each full

question on a fresh page. Do not leave blank pages between answers.

7.

You must do all rough work in your answer booklet. (You will not be given any paper

for that purpose and, of course, you should not bring any rough work paper with you into

the examination room). Neatly cross out all rough work. You will not lose marks for

doing rough work in your answer book.

8.

Write the number of the question clearly at the beginning of each answer. If the question

has sub-sections show these also clearly. Do not copy the question.

Be careful to use the same system of numbering as that on the question paper.

9.

Remember that grammar, punctuation and spelling will be taken into account. Write

your answers in ink. You may use a fountain pen or a good ball-point pen, but pencils

may be used only for diagrams and for multiple choice/objective tests.

10.

Bring mathematical and drawing instruments, mathematical and statistical tables for

Mathematics, Science subjects and Technical Drawing. If you are offering Art or

Technical Drawing or Typewriting, you must bring your own brushes and colours or

drawing board, or typewriter for the examination.

11.

Do not write so much on one or two questions that you leave yourself no time to answer

others which you must answer. No marks are given for irrelevant answers.

12.

If you decide to leave the examination room before the end of the period allotted to the

paper, you must not take your question paper away with you; you must return it with your

script to the Supervisor. You may, however, go back at the end of the period to collect

your question paper.

15.

No communication whatsoever will be allowed between candidates in the examination

room.

16.

Any candidate who is detected giving or attempting to obtain unfair assistance, or who is

otherwise detected in any dishonesty whatsoever, will be reported to the Council for

appropriate action.

17.

If it is discovered that candidates have either copied from other candidates or given

opportunity to other candidates to copy from them or communicated dishonestly with

other candidates, their papers will be cancelled.

18.

Candidates whose examination results have been cancelled for resorting to dishonest

means may be refused re-entry to future examinations.

19.

All candidates must submit themselves to biometric verification and searching by the

Supervisor or the Council’s representative before entering the examination hall.

Candidates are not permitted to have in their desks or in their possession, while in the

examination room, any book, memorandum or pocket-book, notes or papers whatsoever,

except the correct question paper given out by the Supervisor/Invigilator in the

examination room. Candidates using slide rules and mathematical instruments as

permitted by the regulations must see to it that any information (formulae or other data)

20.

Candidates should not take any used or unused writing paper out of the Examination

Room. Candidates who disregard this caution are liable to the same penalty as those who

may be detected for dishonesty. Supervisors and Invigilators have been authorized to

search candidates both before they enter and before they leave the examination room if

they have reason to suspect that candidates are carrying prohibited materials.

21.

Candidates guilty of disorderly conduct or causing disturbance in or near the examination

room are liable to be expelled from the examination room.

22.

The Council reserves the right to cancel the results of candidates if it believes that they

have been involved in irregularities before, during or after the examination.

23.

It is a criminal offence, punishable by law, to engage in any examination malpractice

WAEC Act 719 (2006). You are hereby requested to comport yourself strictly in

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Candidates should find no difficulty in making suitable marks if they sharpen their 2B

pencils to a fine point, and then rub the point gently on some scrap paper to make it

slightly blunt. If a candidate finds genuine difficulty in making suitable marks as

described above, it is better to over-mark, than to under-mark.

Note that the computer manufacturers state “No mark should extend more than one-

sixteenth of an inch beyond the edges or ends of the mark positions”.

29.

You must shade one and only one answer space for each question. Candidates should

note that marking two responses to one question automatically gives them no score for

the question. Therefore if you shade an answer space in error, erase the wrong shading

completely and shade the correct answer space. If a candidate makes a poor erasure, and

substitutes a new answer, there is the danger that the computer will read the erasure as a

mark and give no score.

31.

Candidates are further asked to note that since The West African Examinations Council

processes over three million answer sheets per year, it is quite impossible for each one to

be given individual human scrutiny. It is therefore the clear responsibility of the

candidate to complete his Objective Answer Sheet exactly as described in these

instructions.

SPECIAL WARNING ON STARTING AND ENDING A PAPER

32.

When question papers are given out, no candidate should start work before the order to

start is given. Furthermore, when the “stop work” order is given, candidates should

immediately put down their pens or pencils.

33.

Candidates must present their Admission Notices at the Centre assigned to them.

Candidates who do not present their Admission Notices may not be allowed to write the

examination.

34.

Candidates must write the examination at centres assigned to them by WAEC only.

Candidates who write the examination at centres not assigned them will not get

their result(s) in those papers.

35.

Programmable calculators are not permitted for the examination.

INVOICE NO.

NAME OF CANDIDATE

BLIND*

LOW*

HEARING*

OTHER

VISION

IMPAIRED

(SPECIFY)

*Please TICK as appropriate

CORE SUBJECTS

ELECTIVE SUBJECTS

1)

1)

2)

2)

3)

3)

4)

4)

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