After being shut out of their West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) Chemistry paper, 154 final-year students at Sekondi College are in complete despair due to a terrible turn of events.
A stringent
West African Examinations Council (WAEC) officer turned away almost half of the
anticipated 322 candidates on Thursday, June 11, 2026, for showing up after the
test had already started.
The impacted
students, who are primarily on-campus boarders, clarified that their unexpected
delay was entirely accidental. Their transportation from the school dorms to
the test room was severely hampered by the hours-long torrential downpour.
The PTA chairman,
Ghana Education Service officials, and school administration made frantic,
last-minute attempts to change the rule prohibiting late entries, but the WAEC
delegate was adamant. Saddened students claimed that, considering the severe
weather and the huge number of candidates impacted, some judgment ought to have
been used.
Reports that
several day students who experienced comparable weather delays were somehow
permitted inside added to the uproar. The remaining applicants characterized
the oppressive mood and empty tables as emotionally taxing, and the terrible
incident cast a dark shade over them.
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