An NPP communications guy named Awal Mohammed went on JoyNews and basically flipped the script on why WASSCE results tanked this year. Math scores absolutely cratered, with only about half of the 461,000 test takers managing to pass, and that's the worst it's been in four years. English dropped to 69 percent, while Social Studies fell hard from 71 percent down to just 56 percent.
Here's where it gets weird. Everyone figured stricter proctoring caused the mess, but Awal's saying the opposite actually happened. He pointed out that back when results were better, WAEC had to withhold exams from 314 schools for cheating suspicions, and this year that number dropped to 185. His whole argument is that monitoring got more relaxed, not tougher, which makes the performance drop even more confusing for people trying to figure out what went wrong.
Here's where it gets weird. Everyone figured stricter proctoring caused the mess, but Awal's saying the opposite actually happened. He pointed out that back when results were better, WAEC had to withhold exams from 314 schools for cheating suspicions, and this year that number dropped to 185. His whole argument is that monitoring got more relaxed, not tougher, which makes the performance drop even more confusing for people trying to figure out what went wrong.
