The West African Examinations Council, WAEC, on Monday, November 13, announced that it had abandoned the Paper and Pencil Test, PPT, model and has adopted the Computer-Based Test, CBT, mode for the conduct of the Senior School Certificate Examination, SSCE.
This was disclosed in a statement signed by the acting head of the Public Affairs Unit of WAEC, Moyosola Adesina, and released on the same Monday.
According to the statement, the innovation would kick off with the conduct of the West African Senior School Certificate Examination, WASSCE, for private candidates in February 2024.
“In line with global best practices, the Nigeria National Office of the West African Examinations Council wishes to inform the general public, and all its stakeholders, that it has concluded plans to migrate its WASSCE for Private Candidates Examination Diets from Paper and Pencil Test to Computer Based Examination,” the statement from the body partly read.
WAEC is an examination board established by law to determine the examinations required in the public interest in the English-speaking West African countries, to conduct the examinations and to award certificates comparable to those of equivalent examining authorities internationally.
Established in 1952, the council has contributed to education in Anglophone countries of West Africa (Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and the Gambia), with the number of examinations they have coordinated, and certificates they have issued.
