Information reaching us today from the West African
Examination Council (popularly known as WAEC) has
it that the examination council will install from this
November/December 2014 West African Senior
School Certificate Examinations, and according to the
top examination council, here’s what they said
exactly about this calculators, which they called a
“branded, non-programmable calculators and
mathematical sets” which will be provided for all
candidates writing its examinations.
The main aim of providing her own programmed
calculator to all her candidates is because of exam
malpractice, because most students think they are
wiser by using programmable calculators which can
store and save answers.
The Council made this known to the Nigerian general
public in a communiqué, which is signed by its Head
of Public Affairs Department in Yaba, Lagos, Mr. Yusuf
Ari.
According to the Head of Public Affairs, Ari, the
decision is one of the resolutions taken at the Nigeria
Examinations Committee of the Council at its 57th
meeting in Lagos. The committee is the highest
decision-making organ of WAEC on examination-
related matters in Nigeria.
The Committee also identified the following:
Inadequate preparation,
Rote memorisation,
Illegible handwriting,
Poor choice of questions,
Failure to answer the required number of questions,
Vague or irrelevant answers,
Inadequate division of time between questions,
As some of the problems that cause candidates’ poor
performance in WASSCE.
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