Angel Carbonu, President of the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT), has voiced concern that higher education institutions in Ghana may soon require prospective students to take entrance exams before being accepted.
According to him, this would be the result of the West African Examination Council’s exams, including the West Africa Senior School Certificate Exams (WASSCE) and the Basic Education Certificate Exams (BECE), being more prone to examination question leaks.
In an interview, he said that examination leakage is becoming “more systemized and complex,” and that the examination administration body seems to be handicapped in dealing with it decisively.
He claims that the situation has decreased the value of WAEC certificates, and he worries that the various tertiary institution councils may eventually determine that only students who pass entrance examinations will be admitted.
“[This leakages] put the integrity and the sanctity of certifications in question… When the universities in Ghana begin to question the validity and sanctity of our exam, I will not be surprised that in the near future the various councils of the universities will take a decision where students write entrance exam before they get into the universities,” he said.
Mr. Carbonu speculated that WAEC’s difficulty in dealing with the issue may be due to the complexity with which the perpetrators of exam question leakage operate using technology.
“How come that WAEC is being found incapable of finding a solution to this.? Maybe WAEC systems are so weak to the extent that it is unable to identify the problem and solve the problem taking into account the fact that there is a sophisticated technology operating outside WAEC,” he added.
WAEC has been heavily chastised in recent years for allowing test questions to be leaked ahead of the writing day.
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