WAEC EXAM: All Senior Secondary School Students That Are Writing WAEC This Year Should Note This

WAEC EXAM: All Senior Secondary School Students That Are Writing WAEC This Year Should Note This

In what has come as a big blow to students especially graduating Senior Secondary School students who have been anticipating returning back to school to continue preparations towards their terminal examinations, the Federal Government decided to suspend plans of re-opening schools

For close to four months now that the students have been forced to remain at home due to the spread of the pandemic, most of them have been clamouring to know when schools would be re-opened so they can go back to school.

Hope rose for the graduating students after the Boss Mustapha, chairman of the presidential task force on COVID-19 declared the safe re-opening of schools for graduating students last week Monday however the Federal Government has decided to suspend such plans now.

The minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu made this disclosure on Wednesday, July 8, during the virtual Federal Executive Council meeting(FEC) where he insisted that schools can not re-open unless the coronavirus cases reduces drastically.

Consequently, he said Nigerian students would not participate in Senior Secondary Certificate Examinations (SSCE) scheduled to commence on August 4.

According to the minister, it was better for Nigerian students to lose the whole school year than expose them to danger while adding that WAEC has no right to determine when schools will resume in the country

“Our schools will only open when we believe it is safe for our children and that is when the situation is right, not when the incidence of the infection is going up in the country. I just want to make it clear. We will not open soon for examination or for any reason, unless it is safe for our children, even WAEC. WAEC will not determine for us what to do. Schools will remain closed.” he said.

What this could mean directly is that students that have earlier been planning to resume back to schools might have to remain back at home for now.

WAEC had earlier announced the date of examination to commence next month which was confirmed by the Minister of State for Education, Hon. Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba however Mallam Adamu said that WAEC made this disclosure while the government was still consulting stakeholders on what to do.

The West African Examinations Council (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

It is only given to students who live in the five English-speaking West African countries: Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone, The Gambia and Liberia.

As it stands now, it is important for Senior Secondary School Students that are writing WAEC this year to know:

1. Since the Federal Government suspended earlier plans to re-open schools, no resumption for students anymore for now.

2. There is no known date for students to resume any longer following Federal Government's decision.

3. Judging by what the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu said, SS 3 students in Nigeria might not write WAEC examinations this year if the infection rate keeps rising daily

4. Nigerian students could lose a whole academic year if coronavirus cases do not reduce drastically.

5. WAEC is an international council, so examinations might still go on without Nigerian students if things go that way.

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