The West African Examination Council (WAEC) says the introduction of serialisation in some selected questions in the 2023 West African Senior High School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) will eliminate examination malpractice.
The serialisation process requires that all candidates in the same hall receive the same question but with different questions at different question numbers.
Speaking to the media on Wednesday, August 2, the Head of Public Affairs, WAEC, John Kapi, stated that the selected topics will be serialized because they cannot be compromised and it will discourage cheating.
“Serialisation is not anything that is landing from space. Besides nothing has changed about the structure of the questions. It is just that we have serialised some of them. It is our trade secret, and we want to maintain that. We are not unduly punishing anybody, it is the same question just that there is some serialisation.
“There are some of these papers that are high stake and so for those high stake papers we would want to serialise them,” he said.
He added that “Secondly it is a very expensive venture to get into, it is time-consuming and all of that. And so we concentrate more on the high stake papers and then there are a few of them that we consider as low risk, and so we don’t serialise those ones.”
