Over 99,000 students out of 268,812 who sat for the examination failed in Mathematics and Science with some recording F9 in both subjects.
Via CitiFM
Former Director General of the Ghana Education Service, Mr. Michael Nsowah has blamed the huge number of failure of students in Science and Mathematics in this year’s West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) on the high number of topics students are expected to treat before their examination.
But Mr. Nsowah said
In fact, I am not surprised about the turn of events now especially in Intergrated Science. I have studied the details of the syllabus and it is too loaded. For you to write exams you need to complete a certain number of years which has been stipulated. The WASSCE syllabus must cover a three year period at the end of which you write exams because it is built-in.
We all know that these students do not spend three years or nine terms as it is expected, they spend seven terms in school so to begin with they have problems with coverage.”